Example sentences of "there were none [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed . |
| 2 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 3 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 4 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 5 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
| 6 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 7 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 8 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |