Example sentences of "i can [verb] of no " in BNC.
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| 1 | By ‘ hardness ’ I mean a quality which is in poetry nearly always a virtue — I can think of no case where it is not . |
| 2 | Annoyed as we may be at having the cardinal terms left thus undefined ( for Pound proceeds no further towards defining them ) , we are compelled to see that this criticism is not of the chalk-or-cheese , sheep-and-goats variety ; the discrimination proposed is more subtle — between a quality in poetry that is ‘ nearly always ’ a virtue ( ’ I can think of no case where it is not' ) , and an opposite quality that is ‘ not always ’ a fault . |
| 3 | I can think of no more deadly combination than the disciplines imposed on us by ERM and Labour 's taste for economic debauchery . |
| 4 | This is a subject to which more thought should be given , and I can think of no better organisation to pursue it than your own . |
| 5 | Germany 's ever-shifting political forms throughout the 19th and 20th centuries , from Customs Union to Federation to Empire to Republic to Third Reich , and her prostration after the war , sliced in two by the East-West divide , confirm in stark reality the lines of the 19th-century poet Hölderlin : ‘ it may be a hard word , but yet I say it , for it is the truth : I can think of no people more divided than the Germans . ’ |
| 6 | It may not be the path , but of course it is perfectly possible , although steep and hard , to get to the summit of Ben Nevis via this corrie although I can think of no mountaineer who would imagine a gushing , torrential waterfall to be the path , take off their socks and shoes and start trying to wade up it . |
| 7 | Apart from the lightning that brings Frankenstein 's monster to life , I can think of no other appearance of physics in films that incidentally have science in them . |
| 8 | I can think of no better manual for life in the kingdom than this ‘ Queen of the epistles ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I can think of no other . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I can think of no reason for what has happened . |
| 11 | ‘ I can think of no good reason why I should shy from going openly and without having recourse to others . ’ |
| 12 | While persecution varies in intensity from country to country and over time within one country , I can think of no Marxist-Leninist government which has not as a matter of official policy harassed , discriminated against and persecuted religious minorities . |
| 13 | You asked me if there was anyone Barbara would protect , I can think of no one else . ’ |
| 14 | I can think of no better expression to characterise these similarities than ‘ family resemblances ’ ; for the various resemblances between members of a family … overlap and criss-cross in the same way . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You say we have no liberties , ’ Hope replied to a rather over-eloquent statement of George 's , ‘ but I can think of no time when we have had a greater chance to take what freedom we want . |
| 16 | ‘ I can think of no better place to be married . |
| 17 | With the possible exception of Jeanette Winterson and Jackie Collins , I can think of no two women less likely to benefit from each other 's company than these two , and I foresee fireworks . |
| 18 | And I can think of no finer tribute than that . |
| 19 | I can think of no way round this dilemma except that you come in person and explain to her that it is an entirely business-like arrangement . |
| 20 | I can think of no other reason . |
| 21 | But a plea for formalised plea bargaining by Bar Council chairman , was strongly repudiated by his successor , , a strong civil rights activist , who told the Criminal Law Solicitors Association conference , ‘ I can think of no greater avenue for injustice than plea bargaining ’ , which he described as mixing ‘ quantum with liability ’ . |
| 22 | I can think of no better , happier or more beautiful place for watching his county side being defeated than the Worcestershire county cricket ground . |
| 23 | I can think of no other person in the Anti-Apartheid Movement who knows more and is more up to date on the current situation in South Africa . |
| 24 | I 'd like confirmation that he 's as crippled as he appears to be , because , much as I 'd like to , I can think of no way in which a man in his apparent condition could have pulled off this murder . ’ |
| 25 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 26 | I can think of no reason why she did it . |
| 27 | In his letter , Mr Clarke states : ‘ I can think of no justification for the continued delay in announcing the results of the ‘ taking stock ’ exercise . |
| 28 | So , recognising that there are limits to the exercise of this inherent jurisdiction , I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that I can conceive of no situation where it would be a proper exercise of the jurisdiction to make such an order as was made in the present case : that is to order a doctor , whether directly or indirectly , to treat a child in a manner contrary to his or her clinical judgment . |