Example sentences of "none [prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rather strange collection of men and women , thought Rupert with an anthropologist 's detachment , none of whom really know each other but between whom waves and currents of feeling are already beginning to pass . |
| 2 | The decision was made by senior managers and Health Authority members , none of whom now have any local accountability . |
| 3 | He could fill a car-boot after any show with bumph given to him by exhibitors , none of whom ever seemed to ponder the consequences of encouraging copycat technology . |
| 4 | none of which quite apply |
| 5 | Zambia had not seen Alix for months , ever since she 'd set up home with the kid with prosthetic limbs who claimed his disfigurement was due to a variety of fantasies , all of which were subject to detail change , and none of which ever sounded convincing . |
| 6 | ‘ Good ideas , ’ Boyd says , ‘ none of which ever got made . ’ |
| 7 | None of which really helps us to make up our minds . |
| 8 | There is now a considerable literature on the public schools , none of which unfortunately comes to grips with what seems , with respect to the subject of this book , to be perhaps the central issue : the fact that for a hundred years , from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth , the British governing classes were educated in an atmosphere which combined the toleration of a merciless brutality with perpetual exhortations to be good . |
| 9 | But television was so arrogant that none of them even knew that I had a previous reputation . |
| 10 | But I warned my children completely off teaching so none of them even contemplated , well they did contemplate , two of them did but I just told them no , not to countenance it |
| 11 | None of them even read a newspaper . |
| 12 | On the other hand , none of them ever doubted his ability to give as good as he got when the street-fighting began . |
| 13 | None of them ever left . |
| 14 | None of them ever knocked on Father Barnes 's door . |
| 15 | That 's a pretty poor example , but none of them ever dared to rag him . |
| 16 | It 's interesting that although these are the thoughts going through the disciples ' minds , none of them actually put them into words and asked Jesus what it was all about . |
| 17 | None of them actually obey the formal theory which suggests that altruism towards kin in human societies is directly in proportion to shared genes . |
| 18 | you know and various things like that but none of them actually mean any concrete decision on that . |
| 19 | The fifth , the seventh or none of them actually forbids it |
| 20 | However none of them actually shared my interest in politics … . |
| 21 | The children grew up here too , and now ‘ although none of them actually lives here , they 're constantly popping in to visit ’ . |
| 22 | There are a number of biographies of Stanley Baldwin , the Conservative leader ; but none of them really casts much light on his attitude to the crisis . |
| 23 | Last year none of them really knew me . |
| 24 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 25 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 26 | None of them really grilled Mr Major about Maastricht . |
| 27 | More importantly , none of them spontaneously reflected the irony or the exaggerations of the passage in their recall . |
| 28 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 29 | Few of today 's PC based word processors can drive these devices properly and none of them currently produce a genuine WYSIWYG display although a couple are now including a preview capability . |
| 30 | I should hate him , only it seems so unreal sometimes , as though none of it ever happened . |