Example sentences of "[conj] no [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] them " in BNC.

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1 Noting that the lens and pupil of the eye were ‘ so finely shaped and fitted for vision that no artist can mend them , ’ Newton asked whether blind chance could have known sufficient of light and its refraction to have effected the design .
2 Edwin Frere looked into Agnew 's old face and saw only hopeless consternation there , as though he too were overwhelmed with feelings so vast and flood-like that no word might answer them .
3 The separation between the two components is only about 35000000 kilometres , so that no telescope can show them separately , and each must be egg-shaped .
4 The system is made up of two very luminous B-type giants almost in contact , so that no telescope will show them separately .
5 Also there are many binaries in which the components are so close together that no telescope will separate them , and they betray their true nature only by means of the spectroscope .
6 Kids are fearless and full of energy , and no parent can watch them 24 hours a day .
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