Example sentences of "be none [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I do believe they wore top hats , but there are none of the usual wedding photographs to confirm that .
2 ‘ We have good discussions , ’ he wrote , ‘ but there are none of the snide comments about ‘ my Russian mates carving up Poland ’ or ‘ my Commie friends getting more than they bargained for ’ when Russia invaded Finland , that I had on the building job . ’
3 Generally , there are none of the inane pizzaman delivery scenarios you find in commercial porn — something consumers cherish about the amateurs .
4 If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur .
5 There have been none of the special postage stamps or government statements which usually mark bicentenaries of famous writers .
6 There have been none of the head-on clashes that occurred in 1986 , when President Mitterrand had as his prime minister the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac .
7 Any such deep body of liquid is likely to rise to a level corresponding to isostatic equilibrium , and there would be none of the observed mascons .
8 On these walls were none of the usual posters bidding young mothers to drink milk in pregnancy and bring their toddlers for a twice-yearly check-up .
9 Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite .
10 There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed .
11 Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution .
12 Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay .
13 There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape .
14 As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone .
15 The Back Bowls have only two main lifts so there is none of the mechanical clanking that blights so many resorts .
16 There is none of the discrete lumpiness we saw in our first experiment when a bullet at a time hit the screen , now here , now there .
17 There is none of the restless westwardness of the US .
18 And perhaps the most difficult one to remember is the easiest of the lot , the acid plus the metal cos there 's none of the usual stuff , no salt no water just the hydrogen coming off .
19 There 's none of the dazzling leaps or appalling lapses that gave previous albums a dynamic range .
20 There 's none of the daily rancour which develops when people live bovinely together .
21 There 's none of the rigorous logic and choreographed confusion of real farce , and director Jude Kelly labours under the mistaken impression that if the characters rush around and shout a lot , then they are bound to be funny .
22 There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken .
23 They were becoming very tired , and when they came back from their missions there was none of the former exuberance if everyone returned safely , and just fatalistic shoulder-shrugging if someone was lost .
24 There was none of the familiar denunciations against the West and no talk of replacing the system with an Islamic state .
25 On landing there was none of the Spanish bureaucracy we 'd been expecting — you just need your passport number for the fuel bill .
26 When Mala switched off , there was none of the intimate cosiness of her last talk with Chertro .
27 There was none of the constant supervision that you got in Holloway , just one officer on the house for twenty-two women , and no screw on at night , which absolutely amazed me .
28 But there was none of the bad feeling that marred last year 's contest at the end of the race and each crew cheering the other .
29 There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy .
30 There was none of the customary tearfulness , no hint of hand-wringing despair .
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