Example sentences of "[be] [conj] none [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feeling seems to be that none of their players are on steroids and until requested to do so they will assume innocence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The first thing you learn up in Kisumu is that none of the churches are large enough to hold the large congregations attending Mass . |
| 4 | The trouble is that none of the three firms is nearly as Japanese as the owners would like it to be . |
| 5 | Of crucial importance is that none of these experiments require the animals to suffer any pain whatsoever . |
| 6 | The official stance is that none of this plutonium is destined for anything other than non-military purposes . |
| 7 | The trouble here is that none of these composers had a strong enough creative personality to absorb his antecedents to his own advantage . |
| 8 | What complicates this state of affairs is that none of us has perfect recall of the past . |
| 9 | ‘ What Elizabeth does n't grasp is that none of us can stand the fuss she makes . |
| 10 | This album 's minus point is that it 's only 40 minutes long ; its plus point is that none of its songs are even a millimetre below excellent . |
| 11 | The important point is that none of these beings is referred to as evil , nor their harmful acts as aggressive or violent . |
| 12 | The point is that none of those was accompanied by an earthquake . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He added ‘ The problem with the 88000 , although it 's a fine component and runs perfectly , is that none of the main manufacturers of development machines ( Hewlett-Packard , Sun , IBM ) are using it . |
| 15 | The first thing to be said in relation to the merits of the appeal is that none of the parties to the appeal , all represented here today , opposes it . |
| 16 | The problem here is that none of the gas , water , or electric supply lines must cross over each other . |
| 17 | If he is unlucky , then there will be a battle at sea , and the best he can hope for is that none of our sea-borne army manages to make a landing . |
| 18 | I think the point , I think the point we 're making is that none of the districts yesterday told us that to meet their figure in H one they would need to have a new settlement , for example , I well remember Selby saying to us if we go above our H one figure we would need a new settlement , but they did not say to meet our H one figure we would need a new settlement . |
| 19 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The reason was that none of these reforms shifted the balance of power within the social structure of the village . |
| 22 | What was clear from one hearing was that none of them is paste . |
| 23 | The problem was that none of the pilots were really confident of their navigation , the sand storm having obliterated the landmarks they were relying on . |
| 24 | I venture that the real reason Labour 's spin-doctors raised electoral reform in a clumsy and cynical way on Democracy Day , and then let it get out of control , was that none of them had actually read the Plant report . |
| 25 | When they founded Training College one of the strictures was that none of the teachers should be the intellectual equal of the priest , so certain writers were frowned upon . |
| 26 | In essence , the problem was that none of these terms could be defined ‘ objectively ’ . |
| 27 | The most interesting feature of the tests was that none of the recipients was aware of any smell coming from the smears . |
| 28 | The trouble was that none of us could understand it . |
| 29 | His reasoning was that none of the men who were conceivable successors were of sufficient stature to reign — he talked privately about his " monarchy " — without the legitimation of popular election . |