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 .
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