Example sentences of "none [prep] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 He was cheered by 3,000 people , almost none of whom would qualify for abode or refuge under the current package .
2 I do n't know , but anyone who says they were had better contend with lawyers hired by scribes such as Stephen Pile , P J O'Rourke , Matthew Parris , Patrick Collins , Peter Tinniswood , Clive Anderson et al , none of whom would be amused by the suggestion that their work was anything other than top-notch .
3 Later in 1987 , the picture surfaced in London , being peddled around to various dealers , none of whom would touch it .
4 seven other members of the House of Commons appointed by the House , none of whom shall be a Minister of the Crown .
5 from this point on , Spencer Stuart became a genuinely international firm owned by its own consultants ( none of whom may hold more than 2% of the stock ) and managed by a Chairman and a Chief Executive , each of whom is elected to the position for a defined period .
6 The four short-listed artists are Grenville Davey , Damien Hirst , David Tremlett and Alison Wilding , each of whom has produced an impressive body of work in recent years and is beginning to enjoy international recognition , but none of whom will be familiar to a wider audience .
7 This is not to belittle the exploits of Hadlee , Phillip or can der Bijl , who were essential parts of their sides ' successes , but none of whom can be said to have been an out-and-out pace man .
8 The novel administrative tasks of industrialized and competing nation — states — public education , public welfare , urbanization — all create powerful pressures for centralization and bureaucratization , none of which would lessen or disappear under socialist governments .
9 By comparison , batching and sorting the enquiries would lead to 126 head movements , most of which would be an absolute minimum of 10 ms and none of which would be much longer than 15 ms .
10 Other jurists between them reach a grand total of eleven cases ( none of which may be attributed to petitioners ) .
11 None of which may initially bother the Western Koi-keeper , whose main concern is to provide good water quality for his fish .
12 It is salutary to be reminded that in many situations and many respects society is not simply divisible into two parts , the majority and the minority , but is in fact a conglomeration of minorities , none of which can have a democratic claim to dominate , and which must therefore learn to live with each other .
13 All exits from the Cathedral are guarded by massive iron locks , all reinforced by systems of bolts and rods and bars , none of which can be sprung from within ; a fact which had surprised , but not alarmed me , until now .
14 All other established techniques involve the measurement of luminal acidity in response to varied stimuli , none of which can be considered to be truly physiological .
15 At the same time , it reveals a succession of different grants , none of which can be shown to be associated with the original concession of Sapaudia .
16 The inter-war era saw the birth of some great cars , none of which could match the elegance and speed of the Type 35 Bugatti which first appeared in 1924 , and was to be credited with more than 2000 wins during its life-time .
17 Earlier , and none of them might have survived the ritual of the tunnel of terror …
18 You go into the bedroom , checking the position of the mirrors ; none of them ought to show you to anybody in the bathroom .
19 As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself .
20 None of them would necessarily call himself a Daleyite , and Mr Daley would deny that he was creating a Democratic machine anything like the one that his father ran with such effect .
21 If there were enough of them , none of them would dare to pin him down , none of them could claim she was anything special .
22 Without the traffic-free tranquillity of the town centre , none of them would have been noticeable .
23 There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained .
24 When the people stopped and turned , their socks and shoes full of muddy water , they were rewarded with a sight none of them would ever forget .
25 Funnily enough , none of them would drink and drive or not wear a seatbelt . ’
26 That was something none of them would like .
27 None of them would trust such men a yard .
28 But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy .
29 None of them would look out of place in the local supermarket or disco .
30 This was now attempted , but I got nowhere near finding out , because none of them would estimate over the phone .
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