Example sentences of "[was/were] none [prep] the [adj] " 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 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 6 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Unlike many disagreements within bands , it did not relate to Charman 's actual playing and there was none of the usual ‘ musical differences ’ . |
| 11 | There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was none of the familiar denunciations against the West and no talk of replacing the system with an Islamic state . |
| 14 | On landing there was none of the Spanish bureaucracy we 'd been expecting — you just need your passport number for the fuel bill . |
| 15 | When Mala switched off , there was none of the intimate cosiness of her last talk with Chertro . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy . |
| 19 | There was none of the customary tearfulness , no hint of hand-wringing despair . |
| 20 | There was none of the green lushness of mainland Italy here . |
| 21 | In the drawing room there was none of the untidy , unmatched squalor that made the morning room a place where troubles or pleasures could have their breathing spaces . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There was none of the agonizing and guilt over money we all went through . |
| 24 | The walls of both palace and hall were completely undecorated ; there was none of the intricate sculptural filigree normally embroidered on the stonework of early Islamic buildings . |