Example sentences of "[vb mod] see no [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door was still locked and , when I peered through the shuttered windows , I could see no sign of candlelight . |
| 2 | Rostov could see no sign of vegetables , but there were bowls of various kinds of fruits , a few of them identifiable . |
| 3 | I was concerned , but as I could see no sign of disease I decided not to interfere . |
| 4 | She waited impatiently to be cleared , trying to peer meanwhile through the doorway beyond the Customs hall where friends and relatives of the travellers were crowded , but she could see no sign of Jenny . |
| 5 | She raised her eyes to his face , but he could see no flash of emotion there , nothing of the slightly vulnerable girl who 'd tried to hide her hurt under an efficient exterior . |
| 6 | Yet she could see no hope of escape . |
| 7 | I could see no reason for panic . |
| 8 | Whilst the inconclusive debate between monogenists and polygenists in anthropology , and the influence of Christianity and political liberalism , somewhat tempered the ethnocentrism of scientific and official attitudes , the Darwinian revolution swept away many of the restraints which checked the development of racist views , at least for those who could see no difference between evolution in the natural world and human achievements . |
| 9 | He could see no improvement in prospect anywhere . |
| 10 | Ford set out to see this cynosure and found Her so wrapped and swaddled in lace robes and veiling that he could see no trace of figure or countenance . |
| 11 | Judge John Petrie said he took account of Wilson 's admissions to police but he could see no alternative to imprisonment , especially since some of the charges involved supplying other people . |
| 12 | He declared that he could see no alternative to perestroika , but he won loud and prolonged applause when he observed that " all manner of rash radicalism , improvisations and dithering have not given us much in five years " . |
| 13 | I can see no error of law in such an approach . |
| 14 | I can see no reasons in principle for limiting the availability of certiorari to a patent excess of power ( as where a visitor has decided something which was not within his remit ) and excluding review on other grounds recognised by the law . |
| 15 | ‘ I can see no difference in principle between a threat to break a contract and a threat to commit a tort . |
| 16 | I would n't want to embarrass you , but I really can see no alternative at present . |
| 17 | I can see no basis in principle for holding that a municipal corporation , empowered by statute to sue in its corporate name , can not maintain an action for libel . |
| 18 | I can see no reason in principle to have restricted the original wide basis of recovery to this limited class of case . |
| 19 | Again , so far as the language of the statute is concerned , I can see no reason in principle why the constable in the course of explaining to the driver his rights under section 8(2) should not tell him , if it be the case , that he , the constable , will require the replacement specimen to be of blood . |