Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] see [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 His wife was a kinswoman of the earl 's councillor Sir John Pickering , which implies that Middleton did not see service to Gloucester as an alternative to Northumberland 's lordship .
2 His wife was a kinswoman of the earl 's councillor Sir John Pickering , which implies that Middleton did not see service to Gloucester as an alternative to Northumberland 's lordship .
3 Eisenhower , who was not unsympathetic to the plight of the blacks , did not see legislation as the real answer to the problem : " I do not believe you can change the hearts of men with laws and decisions . "
4 It was stated that authorities on the Japanese constitution did not see difficulty in fitting security provisions into a treaty or placing it in a discrete American-Japanese treaty .
5 He did not see size of firm as a particularly important factor in his choice .
6 We know that they did not see Jungle Book and Popeye was the supporting item for Peter Pan .
7 But such humanism did not see morality as a passive condition .
8 Bishops were again brought in to arbitrate ; but they did not see eye to eye .
9 It hoped that the involvement of neutral states like Austria , Sweden and Switzerland — all of whom obviously did not see membership as compromising their neutrality — would persuade the Soviet Union that the new association was sufficiently politically innocuous for Finland to be able to join it in the not too distant future .
10 He did not want any services and did not see counselling help as a service a social worker might offer , nor did he want to share any grieving for his wife .
11 The use of the Soviet army for this purpose ( for example in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan ) gave rise to much dissatisfaction among the troops themselves , who did not see action against Soviet citizens as part of their role .
12 Maurin was absorbed in his client and did not see Rain enter .
13 She did not see Gedge until six weeks later when he arrived at their door after a minor road accident .
14 Since women do not see housework as a coherent , meaningful structure of tasks demanding their full attention , they are not made dissatisfied by its fragmented nature .
15 Lawrence added : ‘ It must be stressed that we do not see ball-tampering in our domestic game as a serious problem , but we are determined to stamp it out .
16 But in embryonic wounds we do not see lamellipodia .
17 The factor which accounts for the bulk of the variance in responses ( 27 per cent ) is composed of attitudes towards the process of SSE , with its product , the bringing about of changes in schools , being only weakly correlated , suggesting that teachers simply do not see evaluation as necessarily linked to subsequent action .
18 It is worth pointing out that advocates of such a curriculum do not see knowledge as inert and impersonal but as something which can deeply affect the way an individual thinks , behaves and views the world .
19 Some organisations do not see culture shock as a threat to the completion of a term of work abroad .
20 They do not see strike action as a real choice , and why should they ?
21 The Staff in the Department play a full part in the extra-curricular life of the School , as it is important that the children do not see Learning Support as in any way different or apart from the mainstream of school life .
22 According to Malebranche , in his Search after Truth ( 1675 ) , we do not see material things in the world directly .
23 It will , I hope , be clear by now that , unlike Hallidayan linguists , FSP theorists do not see theme and rheme as being realized chiefly by their relative positions in the clause .
24 Also it might be that those who suffer from SAD differ from most people only because they are more susceptible than the rest of the population to feeling ‘ under the weather ’ when they do not see daylight , particularly in the morning .
25 He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ .
26 America , Britain and France do not see eye to eye .
27 And if an objective moral standard is thrown over , what is to stop the majority in society — or even a minority in power — from putting away in a mental institution those who do not see eye to eye with them until they are " cured " ?
28 ‘ They accept what has happened ; but they do not see anger as the fuel for vengeance .
29 What this means , of course , is that functionalists do not see consciousness as a defining feature of the mental .
30 If capitalist enterprises see the prospect of adequate profits then they will borrow investment funds without any government having to insist , and if they do not see investment as profitable then it is useless to try to force them .
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