Example sentences of "[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 If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur .
6 There have been none of the special postage stamps or government statements which usually mark bicentenaries of famous writers .
7 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 .
8 There could be none of the early 1960s sit-downs , it was implicitly recognized , this was no passive Gandhi protest , the state had to be confronted .
9 The new government 's first sale , in fact , is to be none of the above .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite .
13 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 .
14 Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution .
15 The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left .
16 Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay .
17 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 .
18 There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape .
19 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 .
20 The answer is none of the above ; in a time of magic and mystery they wield mighty spells ( well it works for Sooty ) .
21 The Back Bowls have only two main lifts so there is none of the mechanical clanking that blights so many resorts .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 There is none of the restless westwardness of the US .
25 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 .
26 There 's none of the dazzling leaps or appalling lapses that gave previous albums a dynamic range .
27 There 's none of the daily rancour which develops when people live bovinely together .
28 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 .
29 Unlike many disagreements within bands , it did not relate to Charman 's actual playing and there was none of the usual ‘ musical differences ’ .
30 There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken .
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