Example sentences of "[was/were] [indef pn] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 2 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 5 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 6 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 7 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 13 | Er there were none of the incubators and this sort of thing for them like we 've got today . |
| 14 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
| 15 | There was nothing of the picturesque or civic excess in these stations . |
| 16 | It was nothing of the sort . |
| 17 | She was aware there was nothing of the servant in her voice . |
| 18 | This would seem to imply a super-intelligence , but it was nothing of the sort . |
| 19 | Unfortunately ( or perhaps fortunately ) he was nothing of the kind . |
| 20 | For instance , a book on the influence of religious tradition on the education of women in Britain and India might include substantial chapters or whole sections on Hinduism , Buddhism and Christianity ; if the indexer therefore indexed HINDUISM , BUDDHISM , CHRISTIANITY , RELIGION , EDUCATION , WOMEN , INDIA , BRITAIN , the later combination of individual facets such as HINDUISM and BRITAIN might suggest , falsely , that the book was about Hinduism in Britain when in fact it was nothing of the kind . |
| 21 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 22 | ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind . |
| 23 | Oh no there was nothing of the kind no . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | ‘ I knew it was summat of the sort . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There was none of the disappointment , none of the tragic pretence and exclusion that accompanied the reunion of Jacob and Esau . |
| 28 | There was none of the familiar denunciations against the West and no talk of replacing the system with an Islamic state . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |