Example sentences of "there [was/were] [not/n't] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this meeting there is considerable scope for adjustment , but the process would clearly fail if there were not also an understanding of the need for a consensual solution to emerge , and within a very tight timescale . |
| 2 | ‘ Rewarded ? ’ said Dickie , ‘ there were n't even a collection . |
| 3 | But there was not yet a drug invented , or ever likely to be , that could cope with all the different and complex actions and judgements that make up a round of tournament golf . |
| 4 | There was not strictly a demand colore officii in the sense defined by Windeyer J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 140 . |
| 5 | And there was not even a pretence of mourning among the reporters and photographers who clogged Cookham churchyard and followed the cortège to Slough Crematorium and back . |
| 6 | There was not even a smell of bread baking — unusual in any village an hour before dawn . |
| 7 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 8 | In Romania , however , there was not even a ripple when Mr Gorbachev went to Bucharest to preside over a Warsaw Pact summit in July . |
| 9 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
| 10 | We were like a convoy of ships , save that our horizon was a trembling yellow band , and there was not even a wake to indicate our movement . |
| 11 | There was not even a sense of anger , or regret . |
| 12 | In the fiercely contested Shannon-Garryowen tie there was not even a hint of unseemly conduct and the silence afforded the placekickers was , as usual on this ground , total . |
| 13 | His life was ordered , there was not even a hint of chaos in it now . |
| 14 | There was not even a television for me to watch Felipe . |
| 15 | He answered his letters in long-hand , and when he retired there was not even a typewriter in the building . |
| 16 | I am sure that my right hon. Friend will wish the inquiry to investigate how numerous complaints came to be disregarded , how Mr. Frank Beck was able to simply resign , why the police were never informed of the complaints so that they could be fully investigated at the time , why Mr. Frank Beck , having resigned voluntarily after numerous complaints , was given a reference , why there was not even a report into the then Department of Health and Social Security , and why the inquiries by Brent therefore proved negative . |
| 17 | There was no site at which phoneme identification was impaired where there was not also a disruption of oral-facial movement , although at one site ( in one patient ) movement was disrupted without any impairment of phoneme identification ( Ojemann and Mateer , 1979b ) . |
| 18 | There was not merely an attempt to appropriate , but an appropriation . |
| 19 | There were , however , important differences : there was always a king , or claimant king , of Macedon ; but there was not always a tagos of Thessaly ( their word for ruler over the four great districts or tetrarchies of Thessaly . ) . |
| 20 | there was not only a preference for apparently conformist middle class couples , but also the dislike of deviators from this norm , such as is represented by marital breakdown or career oriented women . |
| 21 | In the first place , there was not only a sex difference but a gap of glaring dimensions politically , socially and even of age , between those who promoted the introduction of women to printing and those who opposed it . |
| 22 | The main area for the manufacture of fine broadcloths was the southern Cotswolds , notably in the Stroud valley , where there was not only a supply of high-quality local wool — Cotswold wool was generally regarded as the best in England — but also quantities of fuller 's earth and available water power ( 65 , pp.153–6 ; 84 , p.309 ) . |
| 23 | There was n't even a mantle , it as a wall bracket that came out of the wall with a little tiny gas jet that fanned out sot of thing and that was your illumination for the the bedroom . |
| 24 | There was n't even a pub any longer and half the cottages were empty , only the old folk left . |
| 25 | And the next day I went off and there was n't even a snail |
| 26 | There was n't even a bed for me ; I slept on the sofa in the front room . |
| 27 | There was n't even a need for an ambulance . |
| 28 | There was n't even a hint of the belly wobbler or the throaty guffaw . |
| 29 | In the darkness it was hard to see but it looked as if there was n't even a railing . |
| 30 | And there was n't even a sniff of the now legendary trail of corpses that I 'm known and loved for . |