Example sentences of "[was/were] not any [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to be nearer home and there were n't any vacancies in the local hospitals at that particular time . |
| 2 | Well , this place looked okay to me , the only hitch being that there were n't any women in it They were all in the butch bars and the diesel discos . |
| 3 | And not-only was there no dog worrying Farmer Olinton 's sheep ; there were n't any sheep in sight , either ! |
| 4 | Yes but there was n't any support in Marlene 's area . |
| 5 | Look , there was n't any sign in there of a scuffle of any kind ? |
| 6 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 7 | I knew there was n't any point in asking him to return them at this stage . |
| 8 | There was n't any point in going over all that again . |
| 9 | And there certainly was n't any point in her moving out of her Mum 's to live alone at a time like this . |
| 10 | I have here a comments that there was n't any point in really restricting the numbers . |
| 11 | I mean they cut in through Manchuria down the north to , to , across to north China plain , had taken the cities on the eastern seaboard which was what they wanted , I mean th th they really was n't any point in controlling the rural south , it would have taken so many troops , so much administration if they 'd that then they had everything they wanted from the trading ports so there was n't that Japanese presence and so the clearly was different . |
| 12 | there was n't any point in me trying |
| 13 | She also tried to tell me there was n't any prejudice in the school . |
| 14 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |