Example sentences of "there [was/were] no room for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no room for Haydn or Hume in the eighteenth century , for Verdi or even Dostoevsky in the nineteenth . |
| 2 | Yesterday , on the eve of the event , the squad were supposed to share the training hall with the British team , but there was no room for Karen Briggs , Elvis Gordon and the rest . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In Socinus 's theology , therefore , there was no room for Christ except as a voice proclaiming salvation . |
| 5 | Some villages , especially in the North and Midlands , were quickly converted into industrial slums , where there was no room for living or dead . |
| 6 | ‘ There was no room for doubt in your words , Wilson , nothing left to query ? ’ |
| 7 | In Paris , where she and her husband performed for refugees , the theatre was so crowded that there was no room for many parties of children who had lost their parents and were in the care of relief organisations . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was no room for slackers : absolute concentration and dedication throughout the game was demanded . |
| 11 | There was no room for the trick that was merely ‘ showy ’ . |
| 12 | In the created universe there was no room for divine operation ; the biblical miracles presented a difficulty here , but perhaps rational explanations would soon be found . |
| 13 | Hospital spokesman Graham Howard admitted : ‘ They were refused because there was no room for them . |
| 14 | When your whole being was overflowing with loathing and hate there was no room for fear . |
| 15 | There was no room for anything else . |
| 16 | It took fifteen or twenty years for the prosperous white planters to see the dangers of a community in which the vast majority of the population were slaves from Africa and there was no room for any white man below their own level of prosperity . |
| 17 | Once this had yielded a conclusion , there was no room for further debate . |
| 18 | There was no room for argument or compromise in the matter . |
| 19 | And as we might anticipate from Eliot 's distaste for ‘ equality ’ there was no room for the idea that it was possible to educate the masses : ‘ There is no doubt that in our headlong rush to educate everybody , we are lowering standards … destroying our ancient edifices . ’ |
| 20 | It could also be construed as a naturalistic rival to supernatural religion , in that it presented the world as a closed system in which the deity was little more than a physical hypothesis to explain motion or change — a world in which there was no room for a higher human destiny . |
| 21 | Sanders and Lloyd-Greame would at the least be held up for years by coalition , for there was no room for their promotion . |
| 22 | There was no room for two rabbits to pass . |
| 23 | Once an offender was found guilty , however , the sentence should follow automatically ; in the strict classicism of Beccaria there was no room for clemency by way of pardons , reduction of sentences because of mitigating circumstances , or early release from the punishment laid down . |
| 24 | As soon as he sat down it was clear that there was no room for modesty . |
| 25 | Was erm always kept in the yard , there was no room for it in a small scullery , and there were big old wooden rollers . |
| 26 | There was no room for multiparty politics or a political opposition , and there could be no place for strikes or other ‘ antisocialist ’ phenomena . |
| 27 | He realized abruptly that there was no room for doubt : Lorton had condemned himself when he rang Dougal just after six to say that Newley was back in London . |
| 28 | On the face of it , given the dominant place of the CPSU in initiating policy and its penetration of the state administrative apparatus which implemented the policies , there was no room for any manifestation of group politics in the former Soviet Union . |
| 29 | The Grace , 180 tons fully loaded , nosed her way through the low arches by the Middlesex bank , where there was no room for other craft , passing , or surpassing , all the shipping there . |
| 30 | There was no room for an outsider . |