Example sentences of "was [pron] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only occasionally was there any doubt that they would win , however , particularly as David Phillips , who took over the kicking on the early retirement of Brian Bolderson , kicked only one of four penalty chances for Newport . |
| 2 | Nor was there any notice explaining how to get dental treatment on the National Health Service . |
| 3 | Only by propping it up , and cleaning it up ( and in the process uniting with it ) , was there any chance of stability . |
| 4 | Nor was there any reason to believe they would get it over the next thirty years , either . |
| 5 | Was there any other way ? |
| 6 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |
| 7 | And was there any connection between her and the standing stones ? |
| 8 | Was there any change of style or tone in the next paragraph ? |
| 9 | Nor was there any rain in October or December . |
| 10 | Only in Leicestershire was there any appreciable cereal growing and even in this county it amounted to no more than 26% of the arable acreage . |
| 11 | Only when his party took to wearing black shirts , and ‘ disrupting ’ meetings of the opposition in order to save Italy from them , was there any ground-swell of popularity . |
| 12 | ‘ Was there any mention of a knife , in the Met 's case , sir — if only to threaten the messenger ? ’ |
| 13 | Only in the Empress 's own apartments was there any sign of normality , where Eugénie had installed herself with her personal maid , her secretary and a handful of courtiers who had come from Saint Cloud to be with her . |
| 14 | There never has en one simple view of what a comprehensive school is or should be , nor was there any single ideological thrust behind even the rapid development of the 1960s . |
| 15 | Nor , had he sought to recruit a biochemist , was there any laboratory space available for his work . |
| 16 | Nor was there any sign of diplomatic clearance for Algeria , Niger and Nigeria . |
| 17 | There were no beggars , no obviously destitute people , nor was there any decaying rubbish in back streets . |
| 18 | Nor was there any hope of going back into football — unless the authorities could be persuaded to lift their ban on him . |
| 19 | No one doubted that some form of physical education should be part of the programme ; nor was there any dissent from the view that girls were to be taught domestic economy and similar subjects in addition to trade and academic courses ; and , thirdly , the terms ‘ vocational ’ and ‘ liberal ’ should be generously interpreted , rather than be seen as mutually exclusive . |
| 20 | For only in the formal processes of the courts was there any common alternative to the use of force ; and in most European countries throughout the period of this book kings and their officers had the greatest difficulty in preventing might from proving stronger than right : disorder was endemic , justice weak — but none the less sought after and admired for being in short supply . |
| 21 | Nor was there any instinctive offensive , no fight to transcend its condition and stay alive . |
| 22 | Was there any particular inspiration behind ‘ On Every Street ’ ? |
| 23 | Only in the years after the Napoleonic Wars was there any threat to this pattern , and that came from a maverick member of the group . |
| 24 | However , nothing happened during the period from the time the mistake was made until it was discovered to affect the company 's position , nor was there any unfairness or abuse of power . |
| 25 | Nor was there any evidence that the inspector had failed to take account of the likely costs of compliance . |
| 26 | Nowhere in her physical being was there any last trace of beauty . |
| 27 | Was there any means of being recommended for a scholarship in the south ? |
| 28 | How could he explain that only by emptying himself into a woman was there any relief ? |
| 29 | Was there any reason to doubt that 1972 would be just as successful ? |
| 30 | Only if I used the example of all mankind 's progress towards Paradise was there any meeting of minds . |