Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] none at " in BNC.

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1 Did you get all monies applied for or only part payment or none at all ? !
2 Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work .
3 A family with the disk ranging from a sack-like bag covered with skin or thin scales to a more rigid structure covered with large plates , usually armed with spinelets , granules , or simple rods , the density of covering varying ; the characters of the oral frame falling into broad categories ; either the jaws longer than broad with many papillae or as broad as long usually with fewer papillae , rarely more than 6–7 ; the arms usually noded but sometimes only slightly so ; arm spines usually erect , often long and rugose ; the tentacle pores either large and open with small tentacle scales or none at all or small with a variety of tentacle scales .
4 Lastly in Ophioprium cervicornis , O. permixtum the pores are open with small spine-like tentacle scales or none at all .
5 It has operated on the rather inequitable basis of paying different amounts of money or none at all according to the source of disability rather than its extent .
6 Cheaper bags often have small thin baffles which can flatten away from the zip or none at all .
7 You know , it 's got ta be Monday to Friday or none at all has n't it ?
8 It might be argued that this approach downgrades sexual intercourse without consent where little violence or none at all is used .
9 3 Better make a decision than none at all .
10 When the target is a letter , it activates one unit at the letter-detector level but none at the word-detector level ( all word detectors will be inhibited ) .
11 The result of these indicated the ongoing commitment by regional office and site staff with all regions returning either a very small number of minor non-conformances or none at all .
12 There is no very clear evidence for volcanic activity on the Mercurian surface and none at all for Plate Tectonics .
13 It 's at the back and none at the front .
14 If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety .
15 It can be applied to all kinds of objective situations or none at all .
16 I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) .
17 Poole remarked that the choice of Stravinsky music horrified many people ( this was long before the composer had been understood or accepted by general audiences ) and the score ‘ made great difficulty for the cast but none at all for John ’ .
18 He said the bill would end the situation where an employer had to dismiss either all the strikers or none at all .
19 If , by mating with more than one male , the female could persuade the males to help rear the young , then she would ensure a better chance of survival for her offspring than if she had only one helper or none at all .
20 It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all .
21 Many animals have equally poor accommodation or none at all .
22 In this paper he pointed out that the problem was not to explain why his thin fibres were strong , since a single chain of atoms must , inescapably , have either the theoretical strength or none at all , but rather to explain why the thicker fibres were weak .
23 In the meantime it is better to have tough regulation than none at all , and the consumer must have someone who can intervene on his behalf more effectively than in the past .
24 Mr Waigel is a Bavarian born and bred who has little love for Bonn but none at all for the former Prussian capital .
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