Example sentences of "[verb] were [prep] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second bankruptcy proceedings brought against him , in I906 , were instituted by a man named Scott , claimed by Wilson to be a Shipping Federation official , He was again saved by his parliamentary friends and trade union allies in an indemnity committee which found that the debts which were alleged were in no way personal . |
| 2 | Minor aircraft snags encountered were of no concern as these would be rectified by the previously-noted maintenance crews under the command of S/L Hughes who were scheduled to sail with the vessel . |
| 3 | But with an annual loss of more than £900,000 and debts of £2m United were in no position to bargain . |
| 4 | The minor tasks which Ybreska performed were of no real significance to him , merely a means of making a little extra money na levo — on the side . |
| 5 | It is true that the elections resulted in a House fairly evenly balanced between the two parties , but the fact that the elections came to be fought over the issue of the Church in Danger meant that those Tories who were returned were in no mood for compromise , with the result that the new House proved extremely difficult for the ministry to manage . |