Question

The Police were unable to collect anything _______ a few random evidences.
(a) beyond (b) despite (c) with Please backup your answer. Thank You.

Answer 1

The Police were unable to collect anything beyond a few random evidences.

Here, we are using 'beyond' because the sentence states that police were unable to find anything than few evidenced,

This means that, they could work up to certain limit and could not do anything more than that. Hence, to indicate the limitation, ‘beyond’ should be used.

Answer 2

The Police were unable to collect anything beyond a few random evidences.

a) Beyond: is the right answer as this preposition is used to denote a situation which is too bad to believe.

Explanation:

(c) With: cannot be the right answer because it is evident that the police are collecting evidences and not deriving anything from the evidences.

(b) Despite: cannot be the right answer because this proposition is used to denote an action that is not prevented by anything. For eg: The match continued despite the rain.