Example sentences of "not see that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't imagine even the most rabid antiscience apes not seeing that — ’ |
| 2 | On the Labour side , what seemed to be a golden opportunity was not taken , nor was it when it first arose , namely to pin responsibility for the Gulf war , and the sufferings of British hostages in it , on the government 's blunder in not seeing that Saddam Hussein would invade Kuwait . |
| 3 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 4 | It is Philistine not to see that a fact and a theory , simple components of tenuous knowledge , are a way not necessarily of controlling nature , but of coming to terms with it , of playing homage ; science is less arrogant in many ways than the arts of landscape or of poetising , mainly because it is content to describe the world as it is . |
| 5 | But not to see that it exists shows a surprising ( and therefore interesting ) blindness . |
| 6 | The fools , not to see that what they madly desire would be such a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring upon them . ’ |
| 7 | I had not seen that it would would have that special resonance . ’ |
| 8 | He had let himself fall in with her will , and had not seen that she had no will , but was calling , alone , for a friend . |
| 9 | I had not seen that hatred might prove an indispensable friend . ’ |
| 10 | Have we not seen that producers are entrepreneurs who can neverbe immune from the forces of competition ? |
| 11 | I have not seen that comment by doctors , but I assure the right hon. Gentleman that that is not the situation . |
| 12 | I have not seen that report , but I have expressed before the dangers that a minimum wage policy would hold for employment levels . |
| 13 | I can not see that one voting system is intrinsically more fair than another . |
| 14 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 15 | The disturbing thing about this letter to Arthur Greeves is the extent to which he does not see that the remedy proposed sounds all too like the disorder he wishes to eliminate . |
| 16 | Bonn , The Hague and London would much prefer the Community to keep to this narrow route to EMU , although the British Government still does not see that even its competing currencies alternative leads to a European central bank . |
| 17 | Can they not see that Europe 's farmers would be forced down one of two routes . |
| 18 | ‘ I do not see that anything else will do , not for the moment . |
| 19 | He is ever confused and his confusion makes him angry and I can not see that it can be helped though it is hard to endure . |
| 20 | Although this issue has raised the passions of taxonomists , I can not see that it is important . |
| 21 | But they concern themselves primarily with discussing the application of nuclear physics , and I can not see that the work of a biologist could profitably be discussed at such a conference , and certainly not by me . |
| 22 | If it were tastefully done , I do not see that anyone could object . |
| 23 | ‘ I can not see that it would do much good . ’ |
| 24 | She did not see that if he had had rabbit for dinner it would be a case of ‘ Poor Flopsy Bunnies ’ ’ ( White , 1954 , p.35 ) . |
| 25 | While the Poles appreciated German fears about the threat posed to Central Europe by a rise of Soviet power they did not see that they would be serving Poland 's interests by agreeing to Hitler 's demands . |
| 26 | Furthermore , I do not see that fastening a label from ancient philosophy upon Wordsworth — in this case to call him a ‘ Pantheist ’ — is particularly helpful ; we are simply consigning him to a museum of dead ideas . |
| 27 | I can not see that any of this speculation helps us to understand the poem ; but if we must guess , it seems more to the point to look for an eight-year-old girl . |
| 28 | Sir Walter is man enough to recognize the nobility of his victim , but does not see that he has challenged his real adversary — the forces of Nature . |
| 29 | I can not see that this represents a temporary disillusionment : see the discussion of the religious aspects of the poem in Chapter 3 ( p. 91 ) . |
| 30 | I do not see that a poet who can write like this in old age , again like Thomas Hardy , deserves to be sneered at and abused with phrases like ‘ fossilized ’ and ‘ quite dead ’ . |