Example sentences of "see any [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Hewlett told Electronic News that it had n't seen any fall-off of interest in the HP9000 Series 1200 machines it buys OEM from Sequoia , but if it did , it could ‘ take over what it needed , whether that 's technology rights or manufacturing rights or whatever . ’
2 Det Insp Anthony Caddy told the inquest that the police had been unable to find any independent witnesses who had seen any act of cruelty on Kim by her parents .
3 Spittals was still one inspector down on his personnel establishment and had not seen any evidence of progress on the Mills murder .
4 I hear what you say , what you 're aiming to do now , without ever having seen any form of proposal .
5 We do n't see any conflict of interest .
6 But then in the sermons when he came here to preach er I did n't see any sign of nervousness myself .
7 Could n't see any sign of nervousness myself but er I 'm very happy with his sermons , quite good .
8 Q Looking at your diary again , can you see any kind of pattern in the consequences or outcomes to these trying confrontations ?
9 Blake could n't see any form of power and assumed this was a machine-driven contraption .
10 Refusing to let him see any trace of fear in her eyes , she squared up to him , pride stiffening her spine .
11 ‘ To be honest , I do n't see any prospect of improvement in the near future , ’ he said .
12 His parents , who were strictly religious and puritanical , saw any kind of pleasure as the road towards hellfire and damnation and forbade Robert from going to parties , wearing bright clothes , or drinking alcohol .
13 They claimed the right to liberate themselves by armed struggle and they saw any recognition of Israel 's legitimacy as contingent on Israeli and American recognition of their own right to self-determination .
14 The Victorian antiquaries had few such inhibitions and readily saw any trace of ash or burning , however small , as belonging to some great catastrophe .
15 Rather than maintain that the situation was unsatisfactory and needed diversion of energy into this area , there was a tendency to see any admission of failure as indicating that the whole area should disappear .
16 The reversal of the conventional speech/writing hierarchy which is implied in the term archi-écriture makes it impossible to see any use of language , written or spoken , as being determined by presence , intention or representation .
17 As Duncan rather carpingly points out , age is a ratio scale but it is hard to see any analysis of age as a variable which exploits this fact .
18 Do you mean to tell me that you never see any case of obstruction , street shouting , begging , carts and cycles with no lights , no offences against the motor car laws , or in other words , that everybody — men , women , and children — know the laws so well that they can avoid the many pit-falls ?
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