Example sentences of "[verb] none of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maclagan — jogged silently down the lock 's east wall but found none of the expected demolitions at its gates . |
| 2 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 3 | The test machine contains a 10-kW turbine and a 4-metre rotor , which is turned by both incoming and outgoing tides ; it will be anchored to the sea bed and therefore needs none of the costly and environmentally damaging civil engineering works associated with other tidal power schemes such as barrages . |
| 4 | But Braque 's work contains none of the expressionistic violence of Picasso 's . |
| 5 | So many mixed feelings of guilt and anxiety , love and hate can blur the issue that it may be important to adopt the suggestion of one therapist and discuss all the issues with a wise counsellor , perhaps a minister or some other friend of the family , who knows most of the people concerned but has none of the strong emotional involvement of a family member . |
| 6 | He has none of the other worries or tasks that you have to deal with daily . |
| 7 | Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 11 | Although administered by a council , which met three times a year to review policy , it had undergone none of the post-war modernization and investment that had rescued the rest of the farming industry from the crippling effects of war . |
| 12 | At the time of writing none of the other firms is quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market or the Stock Exchange . |
| 13 | His smile was relentless and Miss D'Arcy who , until then , had felt none of the virulent force m. the man , was pushed into embarrassment . |
| 14 | As yet , though , the best measurements of the microwave background show none of the tell-tale marks that such flaws would leave . |
| 15 | Similarly , andesite flows show none of the obvious surface features of ‘ liquid ’ lavas : pahoehoe flows never occur and all andesite flows have a rough bouldery surface . |
| 16 | Perkin had made none of the classic mistakes . |
| 17 | Drouot salerooms may have seen none of the spectacular sales which are so good for promotion . |
| 18 | Pearl uses none of the electronic or ‘ sound enhancing ’ techniques currently fashionable , and aims to concentrate on extracting from the original grooves the essence of music . |
| 19 | This is neither brash , spotty punk nor controlled smoothly executed musicianship but a careful balance which utilises the expertise of the latter and loses none of the instantaneous excitement of the former . |
| 20 | As your daughter met none of the published criteria the panel , in balancing the stipulation of the above-stated section of the Act against your parental preferences felt unable to uphold your appeal . |
| 21 | As your daughter met none of the published criteria the panel felt unable to override the stipulation of the Act . |
| 22 | She had gone through all the rigmarole of dressing and making up almost on automatic pilot , deriving none of the normal pleasure from the procedure . |
| 23 | The Turks had used none of the sophisticated machinery that the Nazis were to employ against another minority community less than 30 years later . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It appeared to be feeding normally and showed none of the obvious signs of illness . |
| 26 | Analysis of the anterior wall biopsy specimens showed none of the characteristic histopathological features of mucosal prolapse . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that Dement performed experiments after this one in which his subjects showed none of the psychiatric symptoms with REM sleep deprivation , and that he himself made clear how his early observations were probably misleading about the effects of REM sleep deprivation , the idea that dreaming preserved sanity had been strongly reinforced . |
| 28 | For example while the coil orientation shown in Fig. 10a produces the largest output , that 10b links none of the changing flux and has a null output . |
| 29 | Daisy Chainsaw , for the most part , manages to do none of the above . |
| 30 | After thirty years of British rule , observed the distinguished scholar-administrator Henry Fosbrooke , they displayed none of the distressing symptoms of that ‘ soul erosion ’ , defined by him as a ‘ deterioration in obedience to existing moral standards , a falling off in observance of organized religion , a lack of purpose in life ’ , which seemed so often to be the result of British efforts to bring civilization to the African . |