Example sentences of "could 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 " .
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