Example sentences of "was no [noun] for they " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The kids said there was no music for them , they ca n't afford to go to concerts in Newcastle and Middlesbrough , ’ said Andrew .
2 It was during the floods in 1984 when lots of people lost their crops and there was no work for them .
3 ‘ They must have known as they sighted the enemy that there was no chance for them ’ , said Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain , but they had no thought of surrender ’ .
4 Could n't he see that there was no future for them , no past ?
5 And there was no future for them .
6 If the Masai had an educational system of their own which was functioning well according to their own criteria , there was no reason for them to view with favour the introduction into it , by people whose hegemony they accepted but did not welcome , of alien elements .
7 Nor did their broadcasts attribute any part of the story to me — there was no reason for them to do that because I 'd told them nothing they did n't already know .
8 The Association says there was no reason for them not to be rented out .
9 Yeah but they basically just do n't want to lose out either way , I mean there was no reason for them to join originally but when events happen and they see the tide turning almost , you know get with the bandwagon , I mean they , they do n't want now to be seen as the minority and the ones under threat , so you go with the er majority , with the , the stronger force
10 In 1983 about 500 candidates for the priesthood had to be turned away in Asia and Africa as there was no room for them in the seminaries and no money left .
11 And she brought forth her first-born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger ; because there was no room for them in the inn .
12 And she brought forth her first born son , and wrapped him in swaddling clothes , and laid him in a manger. because there was no room for them in the inn .
13 Hospital spokesman Graham Howard admitted : ‘ They were refused because there was no room for them .
14 The KGB and GRU were so powerful that there was no need for them to behave in such an opaque manner .
15 There was no need for them to know that engineer John le Grant was its author .
16 Their critics said there was no need for them to break the law ; they made it .
17 There was no need for them to be imported to Britain since they mostly came from countries which were capable of developing their own waste-disposal programmes .
18 Medieval women were not without authority in the familial and economic spheres even if there was no place for them in public politics .
19 " And she brought forth her first-born child , and laid him in a manger , because there was no place for them in the inn . "
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