Example sentences of "have [pron] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has plenty of the proper sort . ’ |
| 2 | He has none of the other worries or tasks that you have to deal with daily . |
| 3 | Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns . |
| 4 | Very much the unsung hero of Mercedes ' 190 range , the six-cylinder 2.6 has none of the cosmetic bravura that distinguishes the 2.5–16 from its lesser stablemates . |
| 5 | Its weakest point is the character of Pat — while the two men are realistically observed , Pat ( who has none of the shrewd toughness of her profession ) , is a fluff-headed mechanical doll who inexplicably switches from initial dislike of Sonny to a lovestruck Shirley Valentine . |
| 6 | It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’ |
| 7 | Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more . |
| 8 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |
| 9 | Mr McLean will have none of the stirring signs of contrition on the part of the SMG . |
| 10 | Of course , such enlargements would have none of the glossy prettiness of the snaps in the guidebook . |
| 11 | To achieve a fine white printing quality , the paper is oxygen bleached , thereby having none of the detrimental effects on the environment which are inherent in the conventional chlorine bleaching process . |
| 12 | After all , I was more of an outsider there than at home , being out of my milieu and having none of the social graces or advantages of my fellow-pupils . |
| 13 | Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature . |
| 14 | South Africa had no-one of the athletic calibre of John Eales , Ian Jones or Michael Jones . |
| 15 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
| 16 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
| 17 | Not seeing Jane , however , was no cause for regret ; she had none of the kindly qualities of her husband . |
| 18 | If laboratory tests for HIV were not performed or gave indeterminate results , any of the conditions in the list below would indicate AIDS if it was diagnosed by a definitive method and the patient had none of the other causes of immunodeficiency listed below that could explain the occurrence of the indicator disease : |
| 19 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 20 | The use of qualifying standards meant the women had none of the awkward choices which confronted the men , also enabling them to bring in experienced campaigners like Christina Cahill ( 1,500 metres ) and Wendy Sly ( 3,000m ) , despite both runners having had restricted summer seasons . |
| 21 | The panels that ran along the walls were covered with large , functional looking controls that , thought the Doctor with distaste , had none of the elegant modernity of the TARDIS console . |
| 22 | His heroes had none of the traditional grandeur appropriate to demigods and he reduced the customary high language of the genre accordingly . |
| 23 | Bought clothing in the south had none of the hard-wearing qualities of northern home-spun . |
| 24 | This took the form of a recommendation to a university willing to take on an inspector , who often had none of the usual qualifications . |
| 25 | We worked in a special class and at a cracking pace — with a man called Harris , who had none of the contemporary difficulties about aims and objectives . |
| 26 | He was a short , precise man with a small moustache which reminded me a little of Hitler 's , but he had none of the German leader 's belligerence . |
| 27 | It had none of the institutional smell Alida had prepared herself for . |
| 28 | And , although the meeting of their lips had none of the searching hunger that they had shared before , there was something in the touch that reassured her . |
| 29 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |
| 30 | It had none of the clinical efficiency of his mother 's , but it did remind him of his grandmother 's kitchen out on the farm , with its prosaic line of battered saucepans which shared a shelf with a large bowl for making bread and a hopeful looking collection of cake tins . |