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

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1 It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff .
2 Of crucial importance is that none of these experiments require the animals to suffer any pain whatsoever .
3 The trouble here is that none of these composers had a strong enough creative personality to absorb his antecedents to his own advantage .
4 The important point is that none of these beings is referred to as evil , nor their harmful acts as aggressive or violent .
5 Direct and inspirational it may be — what is very clear , however , is that none of these artists works without a great deal of feeling , thought , and analysis .
6 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 .
7 The official stance is that none of this plutonium is destined for anything other than non-military purposes .
8 The point is that none of those was accompanied by an earthquake .
9 The reason was that none of these reforms shifted the balance of power within the social structure of the village .
10 In essence , the problem was that none of these terms could be defined ‘ objectively ’ .
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