Example sentences of "there was none [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | There was an element of fitness training in the Scots ' routines , but there was none for the Fijians . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | There was none of the disappointment , none of the tragic pretence and exclusion that accompanied the reunion of Jacob and Esau . |
4 | There was none of the familiar denunciations against the West and no talk of replacing the system with an Islamic state . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | There was none of the country bumpkin about this young miss . |
8 | Unlike many disagreements within bands , it did not relate to Charman 's actual playing and there was none of the usual ‘ musical differences ’ . |
9 | There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | There was none of the violence of illness in it , no writhing or moaning , and it was never impatient or irritable when Kalchu tried to feed it or probed it for sores . |
12 | On landing there was none of the Spanish bureaucracy we 'd been expecting — you just need your passport number for the fuel bill . |
13 | There was none of the agonizing and guilt over money we all went through . |
14 | Much of this picture has been surmised from the pioneering excavation of Old Hangleton by Mr Holden : surprisingly , given the common image of medieval squalor , there was none of the rubbish which is usually so rich a ground for archaeologists . |
15 | There was none of the back-slapping and encouragement the President-elect enjoyed when he toured US hamburger joints . |
16 | There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |
17 | Bowe 's margin of victory was so clear that when he and Holyfield were dragged off each other at the final bell , there was none of the tension that normally accumulates during the counting of the score card . |
18 | Whether the tactics of individual approach divided possible dissidents , or Alderman Reed 's fate terrified them , there was none of the anger or recalcitrance that had greeted the ‘ amicable grant ’ twenty years before . |
19 | There was none of the decay or rubble of the crowded villages along the Nile . |
20 | There was none of the fumbling of a man . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | There was none of the customary tearfulness , no hint of hand-wringing despair . |
23 | There was none of the relief which might have been gained from a change of stance . |
24 | When Mala switched off , there was none of the intimate cosiness of her last talk with Chertro . |
25 | I do n't know how high the pass was , but even with the sun casting long , black shadows , there was none of the fearsomeness of the journey we had made only that morning . |
26 | There was none of the hurry of Reading or Bristol . |
27 | There was none of the carelessness with which he usually waited for Twomey to bring him his glass . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | They were made to wartime restrictions , wooden seats and erm mass produced really , erm there was none of the erm cushioned seats at all , that were a part of the feature during th before the war . |