Example sentences of "the [noun] be [conj] none [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The plan is that none of these people will be able to purchase any of the seven thousand tickets available to England for the first round matches .
2 The point is that none of those was accompanied by an earthquake .
3 The trouble is that none of the three firms is nearly as Japanese as the owners would like it to be .
4 The trouble was that none of us could understand it .
5 The reason was that none of these reforms shifted the balance of power within the social structure of the village .
6 The most interesting feature of the tests was that none of the recipients was aware of any smell coming from the smears .
7 When they founded Training College one of the strictures was that none of the teachers should be the intellectual equal of the priest , so certain writers were frowned upon .
8 The problem was that none of the pilots were really confident of their navigation , the sand storm having obliterated the landmarks they were relying on .
9 In essence , the problem was that none of these terms could be defined ‘ objectively ’ .
10 The first thing to be said in relation to the merits of the appeal is that none of the parties to the appeal , all represented here today , opposes it .
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