Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 None of which may initially bother the Western Koi-keeper , whose main concern is to provide good water quality for his fish .
2 Of course , it would be self-defeating if all tadpoles were to become cannibals , since none of them would then eat the plant material on which the chain depends .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 But he had grown to understand that none of them could even pretend to these things .
6 The others — none of them could even ride a donkey , only Nutty … but now they sit there , knees in , heels down , on the bit — ’
7 Only the priests remained , and the Colonel and the Factor and none of them could really be asked .
8 It was the simple questions that proved troublesome , and none of them will now forget who was the local councillor and is now MP for Huntingdon .
9 ‘ I 'll go where none of them will ever suspect .
10 And I also bet none of them will ever bake a pie again without going pink from top to toe ! ’
11 Then her hands would grow hot and she would pause , wipe them with a moist cloth so that she should not smear the finespun white cotton thread as she worked , and her thoughts of Tommaso would return ; they were very sweet to her , often enough , though when her daydreaming grew extravagant she would fall again into hopelessness , and fear that none of it might ever come true .
12 And the site on the airfield is well , well away from the village and none of you will actually see it .
13 Without them , and thousands like them , none of us would currently be enjoying , if not prosperity , at least our freedom .
14 As none of us can ever get outside logocentrism ( its power over our habits of thought and over our language is so pervasive ) , the most that one can do is work against them from within in this sort of way .
15 I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them .
16 If the attacker bites one off it can soon be regrown .
17 In this section , we adopt the view that there is some truth in all of these approaches , but that no one of them can fully explain the causes of unemployment .
18 In this section , we adopt the view that there is some truth in all of these theories , but that no one of them can fully explain the causes of inflation .
19 ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything .
20 I was more of an outsider than ever , but something in me must still have wanted to belong to the family because I was still making deliberate attempts to communicate with the other members .
21 At the front of Laura 's mind constantly was the realization that these shops bore her name and everything in them must therefore reflect what she stood for .
22 All sources , especially late ones , are likely to get things wrong , sometimes spectacularly so , but that does not mean that everything in them can simply be swept aside as nonsense .
23 I felt sure lots of them would already have young to rear and by transporting the does elsewhere the young were doomed to die wastefully .
24 ‘ I know that lots of them would never dream of voting Labour , but it does n't bother me .
25 Six lots of none will always come to the same as
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