Example sentences of "be none [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PPC : Back issues are available from our subscriptions department on 091 510 8787 , but I 'm afraid that issue 3 ( the August issue ) sold out — there are none of that issue left ! ) . |
| 2 | There will be none of this decay , this sadness , this tailing-off , this mess , this mingling of feeling . |
| 3 | If you 'd a husband and bairns to occupy yourself with , there 'd be none of this drawing and tootling on flutes . |
| 4 | Tried to make , but I threw it out there were none of that sparkle left in it . |
| 5 | Reflection on ( 61 ) reveals that the ordinal adjective first implies that there were none before that time : the meaning of this sentence is therefore that " no one had ever dared insult me before " . |
| 6 | As Guha points out , there is none of this management ego trip stuff of going upmarket so that people compliment you on your Littlewoods tie when you go to the golf club . |
| 7 | You only go into the flats if you 're visiting someone or if you live there , so there 's no , there 's none of that hustle and bustle that you get on a , on a regular street . |
| 8 | And they reckon what , what it , that 's all it 's going to be a three hour test I do n't agree with putting a child of that age through a test I mean there 's none of this nursery pick out who is slow on what , where , why and when , who 's good at something who 's , who 's not so good at it , erm apparently and er , put a seven year old through this exam , find out what they 're good at and what they 're not , well the teachers obviously are n't doing their jobs very well . |
| 9 | Now , there 's none of this nonsense ! |
| 10 | Because you see there was none of that exploration and it 's just those nice easy open question to get me to start enjoy spending my , my er retirement . |
| 11 | On Charles Lyell 's side at first there was none of similar stature , though one might mention the great Goethe in Germany who was a keen amateur geologist and liked the gradual peaceful processes preached by the uniformitarians . |
| 12 | There was none of this nonsense when The Granada 500 , a group of Gallup-picked electors who had travelled from marginal Bolton to reach London 's Grosvenor House Hotel on Monday for World in Action ( ITV ) . |
| 13 | There was none of this running away and , I have n't done it , and this that and the other . |
| 14 | We got up to mischief obviously like a lot more , youngsters do even today , but er there was none of this sort of vandalism , we did n't use to destroy anything . |