Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] none [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I thought them extraordinary Performances for a Girl of her Age , and one that had so little Advantage ( or rather none at all ) either from Books or Conversation : But my bad State of Health prevented me from making any further Enquiry concerning this young Genius , till about fourteen Months before her Death , when I was first inform 'd she had wrote a Tragedy .
2 There may be very little transactional business enacted , or effectively none at all ( see Aston 1986 ) .
3 Or perhaps none of it is real and I 'm just dreaming …
4 Or perhaps none of the shirts is for me …
5 With a little ingenuity , passages which at first sight would appear to require much use of the pedals can often be made playable with very little chromatic alteration , or perhaps none at all , by using enharmonic equivalents of certain notes .
6 The lofty official view is that the agitators in favour of an entirely fresh deal — or preferably none at all — with the CFTC command little support among the membership and distract the association from grappling with real issues such as Globex , the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 's putative electronic trading system .
7 Depending on the particular combination of methods researchers have used , they have reported a fear of strangers in all or nearly none of the babies studied .
8 Any individual is entitled to follow any faith he chooses — or even none at all — but this should be done sincerely and not simply as some sort of ‘ insurance policy ’ against whatever may arise in the future .
9 A recent paper in The Lancet observed that people aged over 70 are excluded from almost all clinical trials of cancer treatment , with the result that elderly patients ‘ receive either untested treatments , inadequate treatments , or even none at all , at the whim of their clinician . ’
10 If you are using one or more ‘ editing decks ’ , that is VCRs which have features which are specially provided for facilitating the editing of video , you will be able to assemble your tapes quickly and reasonably accurately with one of the more basic edit controllers — or even none at all .
11 Obviously most severely disabled persons are likely to have financial problems as they have either a limited earning capacity or even none at all .
12 The problems and abuses connected with the laws of settlement will be discussed below ; for the moment we are concerned to stress that persons with a settlement in a parish had a real claim to relief should misfortune or simply age overtake them , or indeed if they could find no work or even none at wages sufficient for the support of the family .
13 We went on for what seemed like hours and still none of us understood .
14 True , they led to the old Naval Dockyard but that did not generate many heavy goods vehicles and probably none at night .
15 Under Berton 's direction the harpsichord player had increasingly limited responsibility , and traditionally none respecting chorus and ballet music .
16 First , The World Bank estimates that between 90 and 95 per cent of public investment in agriculture since World War II in Mexico and Peru has been in irrigated agriculture , and practically none in watershed management .
17 There is no ‘ generation gap ’ , and often none of the resistance that can exist about discussing their feelings with ‘ youngsters ’ .
18 In total we spent 200 hours installing the equipment and ironically none of it was from my original system .
19 At most I get just enough to wet the bottom of the collection cup , and sometimes none for more than a week .
20 In any month in the 1840 's and '50's there were rarely more than live contracts settled up and the figure was usually two or three and sometimes none at all .
21 Until the 1950s , the news in daily papers had only limited competition from radio and virtually none from TV .
22 There were no omelette episodes , no Socialist Workers and almost none of what the Prime Minister likes to call ‘ badinage ’ .
23 How all the enjoyment is in the cleaning and almost none in the retouching ( this surprised him ) .
24 The Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta , Georgia , is probably pre-eminent in terms of pure research into the organisms responsible for the sexually transmitted diseases , and yet none of this concentrated effort has had any effect on the levels of gonorrhoea or syphilis in America .
25 It has particular interest in that we all know what the word means and yet none of us know what curiosity actually is .
26 That 's what all the papers keep telling them and yet none of them take a blind bit of notice .
27 The fact that Mangon fully deserved his title of Wizard of Lighting was of minor importance to the Girls who , due to his perfectionism , often only had a few hours ' sleep in their dressing-rooms , and occasionally none at all .
28 When I tried asking the girls I interviewed about them I was often met with a shrug , or a short ‘ no problem ’ reply , as if periods were nothing at all , of no significance , and certainly none to a book on looks , fashion and body-image .
29 Van Leer inherited some of his father 's acumen but none of his money and certainly none of his love for money .
30 We had heard that there were escape routes through France and Spain , but naturally none of us knew any of the details .
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