Example sentences of "there [was/were] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [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 . |
| 9 | There was nothing of the picturesque or civic excess in these stations . |
| 10 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 11 | There was nothing of the old Cath Cathy usually enjoying more of a good laugh , she was always happy and cheerful , then she fell victim to a rare diso disorder |
| 12 | Ranulf came up and expertly went through their wallets and pockets but there was nothing except a few coins . |
| 13 | He looked in the shed but there was nothing except the dank smell of bare , sour soil . |
| 14 | Soon there was nothing except the laboured surging of the engine and his head jolting on his spindly neck and a swarm of red dust in the rear window . |
| 15 | There was nothing on the seven o'clock news ; she listened again at eight and nine but still there was no mention of the hunt for Rick Lawrence . |
| 16 | And once they climbed so high they entered the clouds and there was nothing but a great whiteness around them as if the world had been erased by a giant rubber . |
| 17 | Seaward there was nothing but a pearly opalescence which , though it seemed likely to vanish at any moment , effectively blocked out sea and sky . |
| 18 | The effectiveness of metaphors of the type in which inanimates are treated as animate is shown in passages of narratorial description where they are deployed in a fully developed form , for example in a lengthy passage where the pre-Copernican view of the universe ( which still pervades the English language ) is exploited and combined with the peoples ' perception of animacy in all things : " The moon rose slowly and almost vertically into a sky where there was nothing but a few spilled traces of cloud . |
| 19 | Instead there was nothing but a pale mist-shadow pearling between the surfaces of reality . |
| 20 | A few years ago , there was nothing but a brief ‘ coming next ’ . |
| 21 | As I came over the brow , there was nothing but a windswept plateau . |
| 22 | There was nothing but an old , rickety fence between the playground and the water . |
| 23 | There was nothing but the faint image of the stained glass in the front door where the moonlight streamed through , the ticking of the clock , the bundle of coats hanging from the hallstand . |
| 24 | There was nothing like a big coon or a dose of clap to get rid of a punter . |
| 25 | There was nothing in the 1983 statement to alter that ; as Lloyd L.J . |
| 26 | And there was nothing in the early editions , anyway . |
| 27 | After all , Teddy once insisted on taking a dip in Southend to prove there was nothing in the European Commission 's condemnation of the beach . |
| 28 | But there was nothing in the available forensic evidence to prove that Libya was the sole author of the atrocity or even among the prime movers . |
| 29 | But there was nothing in the shifting canyons of frozen carbon dioxide to tell her . |
| 30 | There was nothing in the Parliamentary debate , in fact , to suggest that the pistol cases were particularly serious and the Bill was easily thrown out — although it must be admitted that the gentlemen of Westminster have more than once shown a remarkable capacity for getting things wrong . |