Example sentences of "saw no [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Sandys , when Minister of Supply , had already been instrumental in deciding to develop Blue Streak as the replacement for the V-bombers , and so in 1957 he saw no requirement for either Skybolt or Polaris .
2 He first decided to go into manufacturing because when he finished his design training in the early 1980s there were few jobs available simply because in those days industry , by and large , saw no call for designers .
3 When the true meaning of the custom had been forgotten , and the maypole had become merely a part of the holiday festivities , people saw no reason for felling a new tree every year and began to leave one erected permanently , merely decking it with flowers and fresh greenery on Mayday .
4 A Strathclyde spokesman said the region now believed the matter was closed , and saw no reason for any disciplinary action .
5 Sam saw no need for further secrecy over her affair with Quinn .
6 It saw no need for immediate action but recommended that the matter should be kept under review .
7 Martha , like her father , and like Richard , saw no need for fictions .
8 A new law introducing more stringent measures against racism and anti-Semitism was approved by the National Assembly in a first reading on May 3 , 1990 , and in a final reading on June 30 ( it was not considered by the Senate , which saw no need for textual revisions ) .
9 With such lowly opposition he saw no cause for worry in the injured Hapgood , the off-form Hulme and the ‘ flu invalids John , Lambert and Coleman .
10 Her family saw no cause for alarm —
11 Unlike almost everyone in the papal Curia , unlike the pope himself , he did not understand the need for compromise ; he saw no grounds for withdrawal or discussion ; he took pleasure in obedience .
12 Given the triumph of fundamentalist Islam in Iran and the strength of similar forces in Afghanistan , many who saw no justification for Soviet intervention in law in 1979 could see one on grounds of ‘ national security ’ : much as such justifications were offered for the flagrantly illegal annexations of western Poland , the Baltic republics , Bessarabia , northern Bukovina and parts of Finnish territory in 1939–40 .
13 While I saw no justification for positive discrimination in the coffee queue , I was aware that prejudice can stem from the most unexpected beginnings .
14 All the same , Wickham had been invited to have the flat searched and might sometime do so , although for the moment he saw no justification for it .
15 On the day I was born , Thomas Cook and Son 's were offering an all-in holiday on the Riviera for twenty-eight pounds and sixteen shillings : there were outrages in Ulster , and the Secretary of State for Air said that he saw no future for commercial aviation in Europe .
16 Donald Dewar saw no future for the Government .
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