Example sentences of "had been no [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been no other woman in his life for quite a time . |
| 2 | For a recent example , see Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , where a dispute about damages was referred to accountants by an agreement entered into after the parties ' dispute about liability had been settled by some other method ; there had been no prior agreement in the original contract to refer to an expert . |
| 3 | It was a large tiled room , brightly lit and with the dry , rich smell of animal feed — it made Reynolds realise that there had been no noticeable odour in the corridor at all . |
| 4 | Charges that there had been no good times in England since William came in , or that William had ruined the nation , were fairly common . |
| 5 | The shares fell 3p to 276p yesterday , in line with the market , and Ian Wild , of brokers Barclays de Zoete Wedd , said there had been no great surprises in the figures . |
| 6 | There had been no major engagements in the field and the sieges that the king had undertaken had been abandoned . |
| 7 | Margaret had returned to work by this time , but there had been no real change in her other problems . |
| 8 | If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day . |
| 9 | In Tanzania in the early 1980s , 90 per cent of agricultural production in the resettled villages was still geared to subsistence consumption and there had been no long-term increase in the productivity of the farmers involved . |
| 10 | There had been no serious outbreak in the island for over twenty years , so the majority were neither immune nor vaccinated ( there was great reluctance to be vaccinated ) . |
| 11 | But there had been no overall review in recent times of the problem of crime and criminals by an independent and authoritative body . |
| 12 | Since there had been no clear mandate in 1910 and since the Lords could not now force another election , Unionists would have to resist until the government called one themselves . |
| 13 | There had been no Jewish community in their city . |
| 14 | There had been no significant change in the interim nor any change in the local authority 's proposed future management . |
| 15 | There had been no British embassy in Rome until 1876 and none in Madrid until 1887 . |
| 16 | Previously , there had been no trained nurses in poor-law institutions , nursing being done by the paupers themselves , and there was widespread sickness among workhouse inmates . |
| 17 | The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country . |