Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] were no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose Valerie and I were no exception . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We had a tough time in those days , ’ recalled Mrs Jones , ‘ the post war years were no party for anyone , and we were no exception . |
| 3 | I we I got down there and there were no bugger in ! |
| 4 | We were breathing together again and there were no barriers of disbelief between us . |
| 5 | Although no note awaited her on the doorstep , no letter came and there were no phone calls , Anna knew the cat woman would come back on the following evening . |
| 6 | The village was quiet and there were no lorries or cars . |
| 7 | Firemen dealt with the leak , and there were no casualties . |
| 8 | This was n't an especially spectacular event , although it was the biggest eruption on Etna for some years , and there were no casualties , but none the less it was very instructive . |
| 9 | According to the Soviet agency Tass , it was brought under control within two hours and there were no casualties and no radiation escaped . |
| 10 | A brigade spokeswoman said that no cause had been established and there were no casualties . |
| 11 | Also , one Sunday morning , I took the boat over the swim and stirred the muddy bottom and there were no signs of breadcrumbs in the mudclouds that billowed to the surface . |
| 12 | The tumour was in its early stages and there were no signs it had spread or caused any lasting damage , said the hospital . |
| 13 | The occiput had not been crushed and there were no signs of either bruising or blood in the vicinity of the deep gash in the skin of the skull . |
| 14 | The body was still warm and there were no signs of rigor . |
| 15 | He had a serious expression on his face and there were no signs that he had just escaped a raging inferno . |
| 16 | As long as you kept the public happy and there were no complaints — no-one could find any complaints to write into Head Office with — you were doing a good job . |
| 17 | Mr Woodward knew the area well and there were no railways here at all ; there used to be many years ago and there are still signs of the old trackbed to be seen . |
| 18 | Most of the friars became parish priests , and nuns received pensions , although they were probably more vulnerable to the change in fortune than their male counterparts and there were no church posts for them . |
| 19 | He was nobody his mother knew , and there were no beloveds . |
| 20 | But Blattern muttered and walked away and there were no letters that morning . |
| 21 | All three groups of hamsters increased their body weights at the same rate during the study and there were no differences in final mean body weights between the groups . |
| 22 | Sukie recovered , and there were no charges to be brought , but she was a favoured public child as well as a minor and something stuck . |
| 23 | ‘ The Pru had an awful lot of cost centres , which diffused any sort of financial responsibility and there were no capital expenditure procedures . |
| 24 | And there were no telephones you see when I first came . |
| 25 | With any luck , the majority of the rabbits will have been killed and , if everything went well and there were no snags , the population could have been very substantially reduced . |
| 26 | Perhaps its owner died , and there were no relatives who could care for it . |
| 27 | Mr Mansur left no suicide message , and there were no relatives , videotapes or notes . |
| 28 | The soil could be worked by light , primitive ploughs and there were no forests to clear or swamps to drain . |
| 29 | There was no hub and there were no spokes ; in fact , the whole of the centre of the Wheel was clear of any obstruction . |
| 30 | ‘ Fortunately nobody was in the toilet and there were no injuries . |