Example sentences of "have [pron] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 2 | By the time he meets his benefactor Pip has none of the sympathy of the reader as he is snobby , condescending and harsh towards Magwitch as is shown in this quote from Pip |
| 3 | It has none of the spontaneity of Barrie , nor any of the wistful melancholy that lies submerged beneath the bright surface of the tale . |
| 4 | It has none of the spontaneity of Barrie , nor any of the wistful melancholy that lies submerged beneath the bright surface of the tale . |
| 5 | By comparison housework is boring , lonely , unrewarding work , and it has none of the prestige associated with meeting famous people and working in a glamorous establishment like Claridges . |
| 6 | The banner ‘ Faith Hope Love ’ has none of the cynicism of Megadeth 's ‘ Peace Sells … |
| 7 | The banner ‘ Faith Hope Love ’ has none of the cynicism of Megadeth 's ‘ Peace Sells … |
| 8 | The carving of the features on the youth 's head , fig. 70 , is so like that of the girl 's that they may well be the work of one artist ; but this has none of the other 's contradictions . |
| 9 | In contrast , the portrait of Ahmed has none of the disdain which could be observed in the writer 's article about Michael X. Ahmed 's bluffs are called , but they are understood , and carefully related to his earlier life on the island . |
| 10 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
| 11 | The Emperor has something of the technique of comic and fantastic exaggeration that we associate with Dickens , and something of the manner , too , of Dickens 's reader , Kafka : |
| 12 | ( The teaching of the Catechism has something of the air of a lost cause about it . |
| 13 | Reached most easily from Lothian Road , down King 's Stables Road , the spacious Grassmarket has something of the air of a decayed French place . |
| 14 | Cycling in the north-eastern tip of France and in Belgium , which the Tour enters on Friday 10 July , has something of the character of the area . |
| 15 | This has something of the smack of a ‘ like it or not ’ pronouncement of the kind commonly declaimed by those who would have us suppose that opposition to things we do not like would be pointless . |
| 16 | It has something of the look of the Aberdeen Angus but is a little rougher and without the tapering poll of its eastern cousin . |
| 17 | So let's have none of the crocodile tears about big business . |
| 18 | Well the obvious explanation is that that is the point that our modern hero , the connecting thread that runs through the whole design , can have none of the grandeur of the ancient one . |
| 19 | They said ‘ We ca n't have anything of the sort , we do n't run separate facilities for Asians , and not only that , we are not going to allow you to use the Health Clinic for anything that is solely for Asians . ’ |
| 20 | In nineteen fifty eight Abdul , along with a number of his colleagues , formed the Anti-Apartheid Movement we 're very privileged today to have somebody of the stature of Abdul at our particular congress . |
| 21 | He was a black version of the Maggot , but this man appeared to have none of the Maggot 's casual bonhomie . |
| 22 | Not that it mattered ( I told myself again ) one way or the other , but now that my brother 's arrival was postponed at least until Monday , it would be good to have something of the story checked . |
| 23 | On the picture just conveyed , research appears to have something of the character of a commodity , largely unconnected with ‘ improvement ’ , whether improvement of society or of the individual . |
| 24 | He had nothing of the self-assurance the Greeks liked to attribute to wise Jewish men . |
| 25 | Yes , I was told , they had somebody of the name of Skof . |
| 26 | I said at the time that reports are ALWAYS one sided when the score is 3–0 or 4–0 , this coupled with what I actually heard on radio 5 and what Ive seen of the goals is that Leeds had plenty of the ball , just found it hard to break a 6,7,8 man defence , and norwich looked dangerous on the counter attack . |
| 27 | ‘ We had plenty of the ball but we did not look as if we could do anything from our set plays and we did not look likely to score from them . ’ |
| 28 | She had none of the widow 's aura , none of the comfort of children . |
| 29 | But he had none of the grandiloquence of Vasco Núñez ; he uttered none of the proud formulae Balboa had uttered in the Gulf of San Migud . |
| 30 | He had none of the equipment of a detective , neither being particularly observant nor having any great insight into the psychology of small boys . |