Example sentences of "there be none [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at the most constantly watched setts , the badgers can sometimes become nervous if they catch the scent of a stranger , particularly if there are none of the usual human visitors present either . |
| 2 | I do believe they wore top hats , but there are none of the usual wedding photographs to confirm that . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Generally , there are none of the inane pizzaman delivery scenarios you find in commercial porn — something consumers cherish about the amateurs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 7 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 8 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 9 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
| 10 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There 's none of the dazzling leaps or appalling lapses that gave previous albums a dynamic range . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There 's none of the daily rancour which develops when people live bovinely together . |
| 17 | The Back Bowls have only two main lifts so there is none of the mechanical clanking that blights so many resorts . |
| 18 | When the driver pushes the throttle button or puts his foot on the pedal , there is none of the usual mechanical linkage there to swing into action . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There is none of the restless westwardness of the US . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There was none of the familiar denunciations against the West and no talk of replacing the system with an Islamic state . |
| 23 | Unlike many disagreements within bands , it did not relate to Charman 's actual playing and there was none of the usual ‘ musical differences ’ . |
| 24 | On landing there was none of the Spanish bureaucracy we 'd been expecting — you just need your passport number for the fuel bill . |
| 25 | There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |
| 26 | When Mala switched off , there was none of the intimate cosiness of her last talk with Chertro . |
| 27 | The walls of both palace and hall were completely undecorated ; there was none of the intricate sculptural filigree normally embroidered on the stonework of early Islamic buildings . |
| 28 | There was none of the so-called obscenity — real sex shops and real sex films or honest free-trading prostitutes of either sex , or any allied pleasurable activities : the scourge of the righteous . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the drawing room there was none of the untidy , unmatched squalor that made the morning room a place where troubles or pleasures could have their breathing spaces . |