Example sentences of "was [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would crouch by the steps , ignored , till there was no-one on the narrow spiral stair , glide like a slim shadow up to the hall , and when the next stair was free , on up to the bower , where Catriona , wife of the Maclean 's piper , had a baby . |
| 2 | When other people arrived at the scene , and saw that there was no-one in the burnt-out cockpit , they assumed that the pilot had bailed out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was nothing of the picturesque or civic excess in these stations . |
| 5 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but this was nothing to the delighted grandfather . |
| 8 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He looked in the shed but there was nothing except the dank smell of bare , sour soil . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the school dinner she was wolfing down was nothing like the standard favourite of baked beans , burgers and ice-cream . |
| 13 | Barely five feet four and dressed in sensible shoes , blue silky dress and yellow sash , she was nothing like the glittering bimbos in stilettos and the quietly elegant wives of the money men sitting all around us . |
| 14 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But there was nothing in the shifting canyons of frozen carbon dioxide to tell her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was nothing in the 1983 statement to alter that ; as Lloyd L.J . |
| 19 | And there was nothing in the early editions , anyway . |
| 20 | But then , as I have argued earlier , there was nothing in the basic assumptions of classicism that necessarily prevented it from being equally critical . |
| 21 | There was nothing in the original Bill about academic freedom and universities were to be permitted to dismiss senior staff in order to replace them with younger and cheaper people . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After a while the road ran out and there was nothing in the bleak landscape but loose boulders , rocks , yaks and wild asses . |
| 24 | What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour . |
| 25 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 26 | There was nobody from the Communist Party . |
| 27 | Unlike many disagreements within bands , it did not relate to Charman 's actual playing and there was none of the usual ‘ musical differences ’ . |
| 28 | There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There was none of the familiar denunciations against the West and no talk of replacing the system with an Islamic state . |