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

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1 The subject also has another unusual strength : at school a great amount of effort is put into teaching us to read , but little or none into teaching us to see , still less to look .
2 He lost 3 stone while he was in prison , so now none of his old clothing fits him .
3 The figures are different to the perception of those not incontinent who were asked the same question : 71% ( 2564 ) thought that the condition would have a great deal or fair amount of effect on their lifestyle and only 20% ( 692 ) not much or none at all .
4 You can not imagine him putting up with the committee which apparently advised Elizabeth II in 1960 to buy an all too committee-like selection of modern artists — Nolan , Lowry , Hitchens , Davie — chosen , one suspects , so that none of the great men felt left out .
5 She should have known she was ill , got a doctor to see her earlier , not waited until the bronchitis had turned to pneumonia , so that none of their injections and treatment had been any good .
6 And when ye would set out for Castille , let all the people know in secret , that they make themselves ready , and take with them all that they have , so that none of the Moors in the suburb may know thereof ; for certes ye can not keep the city , neither abide therein after my death .
7 In the Local Government Act ( 1972 ) Wales was organized on the basis of non-metropolitan counties , so that none of its major cities had education or social services functions , while the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act ( 1973 ) brought similar results to Scotland .
8 These two lines of super absorbent material work like dams , holding liquid back so that none of it ever reaches the elastic at the legs .
9 The story about the holiday and the car accident were put about , even told to his wife in the beginning , so that none of the others still in Poland should be put in danger . ’
10 A major drawback to a satisfactory analysis of the implementation of care programming is the ‘ moving target ’ factor : what is being observed is a process in flux , so that none of our conclusions can be definitive or generalizable .
11 ‘ Apart from that , how could I allow him to play when the Scottish League have already altered their fixtures so that none of my home-based players would be playing today ?
12 The Crown accepted that the income of the settlement arose or accrued to the three trustees jointly and not jointly and severally so that none of them was entitled , in law , separately to any particular share or fraction of the income .
13 Mr Sutherland said that the partners at the practice made sure that Dr Almahawi followed safe procedures so that none of his patients was put at risk .
14 It 's not a works , so that none of us can boast on any account .
15 The way we know at all as human beings means not only that none of us knows everything but that none of us knows absolutely why we know anything .
16 It was only that none of this was quite what he had been used to .
17 Only that none of them matched with Donna .
18 Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds .
19 Only if none of these targets is available will I open fire on the big battalions with cannon .
20 So if none of the above applies to you now , it does not rule out risks you or your partner may have taken in the past .
21 But if you 're in a general branch such as I am , which is made up from people of all sorts of industries that have come together because none of us are large enough to have a branch within our own industry on our own , then which section do we go to ?
22 We would rather than none at all .
23 It 's just that none of us actually knows how to go about it . ’
24 It was n't that I would n't try Terry 's material , because we did try it ; it 's just that none of us really liked it .
25 ‘ It 's just that none of the other three had any family to protest . ’
26 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 .
27 You 've obviously got to jog our memories a little further cos none of us can remember it .
28 In her thesis she writes about it , but she also — I surmise — sees the downside ( as Letterman says ) , namely that none of these religious beliefs will be sufficiently adhesive to hold Masai society together once the other solvents get to work .
29 The Saturday before that none of us had it cos we were at granny and grandpa 's .
30 And the Saturday before that none of us had it cos you were gallivanting up and down the country with the
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