Example sentences of "[was/were] none [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On these walls were none of the usual posters bidding young mothers to drink milk in pregnancy and bring their toddlers for a twice-yearly check-up . |
| 2 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 3 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 4 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 5 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There were none of the demonstrations or obstructions which he had feared , and in fact such was the success of the play that he was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 6 March . |
| 8 | This was another of those naked spaces , so exposed it was useless — putting a chair out there to sit in the sun seemed unthinkable , there were none of the nooks and crannies or spaces that invited use . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 11 | Er there were none of the incubators and this sort of thing for them like we 've got today . |
| 12 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 15 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 16 | There was none of the so-called obscenity — real sex shops and real sex films or honest free-trading prostitutes of either sex , or any allied pleasurable activities : the scourge of the righteous . |
| 17 | There was none of the disappointment , none of the tragic pretence and exclusion that accompanied the reunion of Jacob and Esau . |
| 18 | There was none of the familiar denunciations against the West and no talk of replacing the system with an Islamic state . |
| 19 | But there was none of the bad feeling that marred last year 's contest at the end of the race and each crew cheering the other . |
| 20 | In part , it can thank the huge cost of cement works which meant there was none of the rush of new entrants in the boom . |
| 21 | There was none of the country bumpkin about this young miss . |
| 22 | Unlike many disagreements within bands , it did not relate to Charman 's actual playing and there was none of the usual ‘ musical differences ’ . |
| 23 | There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy . |
| 24 | They were becoming very tired , and when they came back from their missions there was none of the former exuberance if everyone returned safely , and just fatalistic shoulder-shrugging if someone was lost . |
| 25 | There was none of the violence of illness in it , no writhing or moaning , and it was never impatient or irritable when Kalchu tried to feed it or probed it for sores . |
| 26 | On landing there was none of the Spanish bureaucracy we 'd been expecting — you just need your passport number for the fuel bill . |
| 27 | There was none of the agonizing and guilt over money we all went through . |
| 28 | Much of this picture has been surmised from the pioneering excavation of Old Hangleton by Mr Holden : surprisingly , given the common image of medieval squalor , there was none of the rubbish which is usually so rich a ground for archaeologists . |
| 29 | There was none of the back-slapping and encouragement the President-elect enjoyed when he toured US hamburger joints . |
| 30 | There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |