Example sentences of "be none [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There 's none of the dazzling leaps or appalling lapses that gave previous albums a dynamic range . |
| 8 | There was none of the familiar denunciations against the West and no talk of replacing the system with an Islamic state . |