Example sentences of "that none [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incompetence of the king , and the arrogance and greed of the Despensers , had so alienated men from the court that none except the few who profited from the king 's favour would fight for him . |
| 2 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 3 | It 's just that none of us actually knows how to go about it . ’ |
| 4 | But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things . |
| 5 | But Benskins said that none of these things was important . ’ |
| 6 | To take the force of this testimony that none of us deserves to avoid , it 's not necessary to like either Olson or Pound , but it is necessary that we respect them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ They have not yet admitted that none of my proposals would force a patient to travel long distances for treatment against his or her will ; that no doctor will have any new financial incentive to refuse elderly patients on to his list . |
| 9 | As we discuss the changing role of the traditional high-street off-licence , it is all too plain that none of the first six customers have browsed or bought wine or done what the market research says they should be doing . |
| 10 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 11 | do n't obsess yourself with the idea that none of them ( Unionist MPs ) understand the view of the man in the street … there is plenty of soundness in the party inside the House … and , easy as it is to call everyone inside Parliamentarians , and to assume that everyone outside are the only judges … you will have to get inside before you realize the difficulties of the situation , or the value of the cool-headed men who still represent the Unionist party in the House , and remain independent of Cabinet influence … |
| 12 | The reason was that none of these reforms shifted the balance of power within the social structure of the village . |
| 13 | This all sounds well and good until you find yourself airborne at night , armed only with a line on a map , and you find that none of the features on your map can be seen because — surprise , surprise — it 's dark ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The first thing you learn up in Kisumu is that none of the churches are large enough to hold the large congregations attending Mass . |
| 16 | Balcon , for one , was not aware of any frustration on the part of his filmmakers , unless he was dishonest when remarking in his autobiography , ‘ It is puzzling to me in retrospect that none of my films … in any way reflected the despair of the times in which we were living . ’ |
| 17 | And in 1958 , when over eight million households had television licences , the various trade associations formed the Film Industry Defence Organization ( FIDO ) in an attempt to ensure that none of the nation 's producers sold their films to television . |
| 18 | The group 's publicity suggests that the issue being dealt with is mental illness , which led a therapist in the audience to say that none of the characters seemed to him to be mentally ill . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The WRU has ruled that none of its players will be given permission to take part in the centenary tour of Natal planned for next summer . |
| 21 | ‘ Our preparations have gone so well that none of us can wait to get there and begin in earnest . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It happened that none of them were , last week . |
| 24 | The trouble is that none of the three firms is nearly as Japanese as the owners would like it to be . |
| 25 | Nowadays it can more or less count on getting asked routinely to sanction , shape or run a new form of global riot-control that none of the big powers , not even America , is ready to do alone . |
| 26 | Given his scepticism about our ability to penetrate to the real essences of things , it is not surprising that he finds that none of the much-discussed contemporary theories on offer provide a satisfactory answer , and concludes that we are simply ignorant about this . |
| 27 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 28 | Paul is declaring that none of the things we boast about , or trust in — intellect , upbringing , orthodoxy , good life , and so on — are vehicles of salvation . |
| 29 | That was one of the reasons he liked living out at Little Knoll , so he could have his own life , his own place that none of them at school knew about . |
| 30 | If he knew that none of the call charges on his bill were his , it proved just how often Gina phoned her friends , in spite of any pretences she might make . |