Example sentences of "[was/were] none [prep] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
5 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
6 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
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 was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | There was none of the familiar denunciations against the West and no talk of replacing the system with an Islamic state . |
11 | On landing there was none of the Spanish bureaucracy we 'd been expecting — you just need your passport number for the fuel bill . |
12 | When Mala switched off , there was none of the intimate cosiness of her last talk with Chertro . |
13 | There was none of the constant supervision that you got in Holloway , just one officer on the house for twenty-two women , and no screw on at night , which absolutely amazed me . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy . |
16 | There was none of the customary tearfulness , no hint of hand-wringing despair . |
17 | There was none of the green lushness of mainland Italy here . |
18 | 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 . |