Example sentences of "[coord] none [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The charity shop 's not really a proper shop — it ai n't smart or none of that , and there 's just a couple of old women sitting by an electric fire and helping out customers when they want to try on clothes and that . |
2 | Gasping for breath , Gentle registered little or none of this , but pushed himself up from the wall to re-launch his attack . |
3 | Cheaper bags often have small thin baffles which can flatten away from the zip or none at all . |
4 | It can be applied to all kinds of objective situations or none at all . |
5 | He said the bill would end the situation where an employer had to dismiss either all the strikers or none at all . |
6 | If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety . |
7 | What is needed is either full co-ordination , or none at all , with countries concentrating on their domestic needs . |
8 | It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all . |
9 | I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) . |
10 | What of those stuck with a 10-year guarantee , or none at all ? |
11 | The Ingleton glens would be as sweet by any name , or none at all . |
12 | In this paper he pointed out that the problem was not to explain why his thin fibres were strong , since a single chain of atoms must , inescapably , have either the theoretical strength or none at all , but rather to explain why the thicker fibres were weak . |
13 | Some have handles without mounts , or none at all . |
14 | You may accept this choice , make another selection — or none at all if you prefer . |
15 | If , by mating with more than one male , the female could persuade the males to help rear the young , then she would ensure a better chance of survival for her offspring than if she had only one helper or none at all . |
16 | Masturbation , in fact , goes with either having a great deal of sex or very little or none at all . |
17 | Thus Indochinese with top marks from the Grandes Écoles in France returned home to serve under Frenchmen with much lower qualifications , or none at all , on a salary which was approximately a fifth of what would be paid to a European doing the same work . |
18 | Many animals have equally poor accommodation or none at all . |
19 | It has operated on the rather inequitable basis of paying different amounts of money or none at all according to the source of disability rather than its extent . |
20 | The figures are different to the perception of those not incontinent who were asked the same question : 71% ( 2564 ) thought that the condition would have a great deal or fair amount of effect on their lifestyle and only 20% ( 692 ) not much or none at all . |
21 | But a very small Reform , or none at all , would — or , at least , might — have involved the aristocrats in far larger losses and concessions than any which they incurred through the Reform Act . |
22 | Neither of these patterns of politics was really pulled into view by pluralism , because that perspective could not cope with too much raucous political activity — still less with too little or none at all . |
23 | It might be argued that this approach downgrades sexual intercourse without consent where little violence or none at all is used . |
24 | A family with the disk ranging from a sack-like bag covered with skin or thin scales to a more rigid structure covered with large plates , usually armed with spinelets , granules , or simple rods , the density of covering varying ; the characters of the oral frame falling into broad categories ; either the jaws longer than broad with many papillae or as broad as long usually with fewer papillae , rarely more than 6–7 ; the arms usually noded but sometimes only slightly so ; arm spines usually erect , often long and rugose ; the tentacle pores either large and open with small tentacle scales or none at all or small with a variety of tentacle scales . |
25 | Lastly in Ophioprium cervicornis , O. permixtum the pores are open with small spine-like tentacle scales or none at all . |
26 | Juliet Kellner spoke to some people who pay less than they might — or none at all — and found out how they salve their consciences . |
27 | The result of these indicated the ongoing commitment by regional office and site staff with all regions returning either a very small number of minor non-conformances or none at all . |
28 | Did you get all monies applied for or only part payment or none at all ? ! |
29 | Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work . |
30 | You know , it 's got ta be Monday to Friday or none at all has n't it ? |