Example sentences of "was none [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike many disagreements within bands , it did not relate to Charman 's actual playing and there was none of the usual ‘ musical differences ’ . |
| 2 | There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was none of the familiar denunciations against the West and no talk of replacing the system with an Islamic state . |
| 5 | On landing there was none of the Spanish bureaucracy we 'd been expecting — you just need your passport number for the fuel bill . |
| 6 | When Mala switched off , there was none of the intimate cosiness of her last talk with Chertro . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy . |
| 10 | There was none of the customary tearfulness , no hint of hand-wringing despair . |
| 11 | There was none of the green lushness of mainland Italy here . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There was none of the agonizing and guilt over money we all went through . |
| 15 | 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 . |