Example sentences of "there was [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no easing this intractable man . |
| 2 | There was no stopping Scottish Amicable team A comprising Jim Hill ( now Aberdeen branch ) , Graeme Cowie ( now Edinburgh branch ) and Lorna Caird ( redundant ) who took first place with the highest total team score . |
| 3 | I turned round , there was no mistaking that voice . |
| 4 | There was no mistaking that deep , clear voice . |
| 5 | There was no mistaking that look . |
| 6 | There was no mistaking that jaunty walk and the cocky tilt of the man 's head . |
| 7 | There was no mistaking that shape . |
| 8 | But there was no fooling these expert youngsters … |
| 9 | There was no talking that night in the darkness , men had enough to do to stay alive , and salvage something out of the ruin . |
| 10 | There was nowhere to put these prisoners except back into the former regime 's gaols , where they did indeed face sub-human conditions , especially of overcrowding . |
| 11 | Crucially , there was also assured financial support for the permitted grant-aided maximum of two such tutors at each extra-mural department in that the Board of Education grant provided for 75% of the salaries of tutors or a maximum of £300 per annum for each appointment . |
| 12 | Schoolteachers were not expected to engage in research , and by the 1870s this was anyway much more difficult than it had been in 1800 : there was more to master first , and more equipment was needed . |