Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] none [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was disappointment , however , as it became clear that none of the 10 water companies are likely to get into the FTSE index of the hundred biggest companies . |
| 2 | The director of a bank in Ljubljana has said ( Politika , 8 October 1987 ) : ‘ It is clear that none of us has become a director without the approval of the Party 's cadres section . |
| 3 | From our results , it is clear that none of the mutations introduced in the different tRNA Asp variants considerably affected the synthesis of m 2 G at positions in the aminoacyl-stem and D-stem ( Table 1 ) . |
| 4 | But although the literature on these questions is very large and continually increasing , it is very clear that none of the specialists concerned know any of the answers . |
| 5 | Yet it is one of the most distinctive brachiopods in the whole record and it has internal structures which make it clear that none of the abundant brachiopods in the strata above or below could possibly be classified as even distant relations . |
| 6 | We have made it explicitly clear that none of the changes that we propose , either in tax or in national insurance contributions , will make a penny difference to any individual earning less than £21,000 a year . |
| 7 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 8 | It is possible that none of the top three will take the honours , for Edinburgh Civil Service are once again coming with a tremendous run , reminiscent of last season , when they fell at the final hurdle . |
| 9 | Alfred was suddenly extremely grateful that none of his colleagues knew of Beatrice Throgmorton 's place in his life . |
| 10 | She slipped quietly out of the hotel , grateful that none of the other cast members were around to witness her departure , and made her way to the car park . |
| 11 | In fact , she could only be profoundly grateful that none of her business colleagues or any of her smart friends back in London was able to see her looking so awful . |
| 12 | He though that we had grown apart from him and he became upset that none of us were around him any more , talking to him any more . |
| 13 | WITH ALL THIS BRAVADO it 's rather ironic that none of the performers would tell me their real names . |
| 14 | The prison has to be convinced that none of its inmates are a danger to the public , but last week Trevor Hanson , a convicted rapist there allegedly attacked a woman while on home leave from Leyhill . |
| 15 | The storyline was too far-fetched and none of the actors was particularly good . ’ |
| 16 | And , they 'll keep your hands warm cos none of you 'll keep your gloves on will you ? |
| 17 | I give Sky 's version high marks for content but none for realistic decor . |
| 18 | But I know it 's totally untrue because none of my sisters or my mother would ever call me Harry again . |
| 19 | All this is generally freely given , which is fortunate since none of the clearinghouses has a budget with which to buy published material . |
| 20 | We were all very young and shy and none of us had the courage to approach and speak to them . |
| 21 | Gasping for breath , Gentle registered little or none of this , but pushed himself up from the wall to re-launch his attack . |
| 22 | Indeed , there is now little or none of the traditional progression or interweaving of rock climbing and other mountain activities . |
| 23 | The editor , a nervous man always conscious that none of his immediate predecessors had lasted more than two years in the job , held his readers ' adoration of royalty as an article of faith . |
| 24 | MI5 agreed to give what help was necessary so it is fairly obvious that none of the security services took Eden 's directive seriously . |
| 25 | The murmur of amusement that ran round the gathering made it obvious that none of the women present saw this as a hardship . |
| 26 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 27 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 28 | She paused and peered down the rocky road to make sure that none of the children who lived in the lower houses had followed her . |
| 29 | Now I suppose some of these ARE useful ( although I 'm not sure which ones ) but I am sure that none of them help develop my ‘ personal , moral and social values ’ as claimed by the school prospectus . |
| 30 | I 'm sure that none of the Springbok players will have felt like that as they came off the pitch , but , in the long run , the losses will benefit them . |