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

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1 The tenant may be wary of this in case it is used by the landlord to remove the tenant ( in a buoyant market ) but any dilatoriness on the part of the landlord in reinstating where none of the supervening events applies could be seized upon by the tenant .
2 Taking a deep breath , he than walked slowly and sedately down one side of the lane , keeping to the shadows , praying that none of the neighbours would report a suspicious man creeping along the back of the houses .
3 The fundamental problem with the CAP is that , in an attempt to keep farmers on the land , the price mechanism has become so distorted that none of its objectives is now being realised , and at a high cost .
4 Goodness , I must be in a state of trauma to have forgotten that none of them had drunk either at lunch-time or in the afternoon . ’
5 They keep sheep in Magdalen grove now , and I hear the fleecy care bleating all day long : I am shocked to find that none of my pupils , though they are all acquainted with pastoral poetry , regards them as anything but a nuisance : and one of my colleagues has been heard to ask why sheep have their wool cut off .
6 Consequently , it is not surprising to find that none of these mosaics is assignable , confidently , to a period before 330 ( or that all but no. 16 could be of the third quarter of the fourth century ) .
7 The health authorities declared a fresh state of " red alert " on Dec. 28 when further cases of cholera were discovered in three northern provinces bordering Bolivia and Paraguay , although it was reported that none of the 44 people diagnosed in the space of five days had died [ for outbreak in early 1992 see p. 38761 ] .
8 Walker also found that none of the 11 pronouns resolved correctly by the original BFP but not by Hobbs were made to fail when the alteration was made .
9 Clare had not wanted to leave Josh ( who would be three in December ) with a babysitter , but she found that none of the local nursery schools , public or private , had an available slot .
10 We do not want to have a future relationship of United States and Latin America reproduced in South Africa , which so many people talk about now when they talk about South Africa as the engine of growth if we have that kind of growth it 'll be distorted and none of the poor in South Africa or the region will benefit from it .
11 He found only one instance of four points aligning and none of five .
12 The second QLF , if any , will only be considered if none of the reference resolution possibilities for the first is deemed acceptable .
13 YOU would think that none of the main party leaders would forget today , but past experience suggests otherwise .
14 He tried to pretend that none of it mattered , could half convince himself .
15 Simply because Japan appears to be different we should guard against reversing the image by suggesting that none of the standard elements of Japanese work practices is present in the West , and that workplace conflict is rare in Japan .
16 She was almost choking with despair , seeing that none of this was making a whisker of difference .
17 When he realised that none of his children was interested in farming as a career , he had moved the family to Brisbane and had encouraged Belinda in her ambition to become a nurse .
18 He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’
19 Susan insists that none of them are big enough and Cheryl is equally insistent that the right sized one is .
20 Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves .
21 The Private Practice and Professional Fees Committee of the BMA agrees that none of this adequately explains the rise in my premium and it has expressed astonishment at the figures I have provided .
22 We fear that none of this will ‘ make London better ’ for the patient .
23 Then her hands would grow hot and she would pause , wipe them with a moist cloth so that she should not smear the finespun white cotton thread as she worked , and her thoughts of Tommaso would return ; they were very sweet to her , often enough , though when her daydreaming grew extravagant she would fall again into hopelessness , and fear that none of it might ever come true .
24 When he knew of his wife 's pregnancy Ernest requested that none of their names should go into the ballot until after the baby 's birth .
25 But careful studies in the 1960S revealed that none of these explanations will do .
26 Finally , the village case study revealed that none of the village practitioners were in favour of promoting the LGS message .
27 I was surprised that Burns did not explain that none of us could wash our faces or hands because the water had been frozen .
28 He had noticed that none of them had his bow or Marian 's .
29 Whilst the automation of this process remains only a distant possibility , it must be conceded that none of these techniques is directly usable as described .
30 This should ensure that none of them is eliminated in an early count and thus deprived of the benefit of a surplus transferred from any more popular running-mate .
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