Example sentences of "[conj] none were [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | As a matter of fact , as I was larding my toast with the old Maria Schneider this morning , preparatory to sprinkling it with Ecstasy , I worked out a scenario involving eight women , providing one of them was Indian and none were dressed as Carmelites . |
2 | All patients received fat and water soluble vitamin supplements and none were taking taurine supplementation . |
3 | Mrs Thatcher did not look with favour on Royal Commissions as a method of resolving difficult issues , and none were set up during her premiership between 1979–90 . |
4 | Over 1500 teeth were examined from pellet samples of adult birds from South Africa , Kenya and England , and none were found to be either digested or broken . |
5 | They had been drinking for the best part of an hour but none were drunk . |
6 | Lung tissue from the right middle and lower lobes was stained for acid and alcohol-fast bacilli but none were seen , and subsequent culture for Mycobacteria was negative . |
7 | The third patient had recurrent events but none were documented . |
8 | She supposed they had no children , since none were mentioned . |
9 | Tikrit looked like any other Iraqi town , except that the streets were cleaner and the walkways over the road were equipped with escalators — though none were working . |
10 | Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp says the Freedom 1000 and 3000 3D graphics accelerators that it is to sell on Sun Microsystems Inc platforms ( UX No 407 ) , have been designed as processor-independent units which could well end up on other CPU architectures in future , though none were mentioned specifically . |