Example sentences of "not see a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Eliot did not doubt the resilience or resolve of the British people ; but he remarked to me that he could not see a man like Neville Chamberlain coping with a major conflict .
2 You will not see a goal of more classical quality and execution than this one .
3 You might look around and not see a tree with any foliage on it whatever ’ .
4 A garrulous Welshman who could not see a beach without running along it .
5 The implications of this would seem to be that 1975–85 did not see a process of structural change , but simply the latest in a series of chaotic attempts by central actors to use local government as a means of achieving their ends , without any appreciation of the range of different interests reflected in its various policy networks , and which are also linked by various routes to the still disaggregated parts of the centre .
6 Although a large ship of the line , she did not see a lot of action during her service .
7 So Rediffusion engineers do not see a future for monomode fibre except for trunk lines .
8 When the Renault RSO1 1500 cc turbo-charged car failed on lap 17 of the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone , there must have been many people who did not see a future for this power-booster , particularly as it was the turbo-charger that caused the car 's withdrawal from the race .
9 Top riders Tony Rickardsson and Chris Louis are already feeling the effects of riding six or seven races every match — and Ipswich can not see an answer in sight .
10 The company said that it did not see an improvement for the second half .
11 She can not see an institution without hitting it with her handbag .
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