Example sentences of "none [prep] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Later in 1987 , the picture surfaced in London , being peddled around to various dealers , none of whom would touch it .
2 He was cheered by 3,000 people , almost none of whom would qualify for abode or refuge under the current package .
3 from this point on , Spencer Stuart became a genuinely international firm owned by its own consultants ( none of whom may hold more than 2% of the stock ) and managed by a Chairman and a Chief Executive , each of whom is elected to the position for a defined period .
4 The novel administrative tasks of industrialized and competing nation — states — public education , public welfare , urbanization — all create powerful pressures for centralization and bureaucratization , none of which would lessen or disappear under socialist governments .
5 It is salutary to be reminded that in many situations and many respects society is not simply divisible into two parts , the majority and the minority , but is in fact a conglomeration of minorities , none of which can have a democratic claim to dominate , and which must therefore learn to live with each other .
6 The inter-war era saw the birth of some great cars , none of which could match the elegance and speed of the Type 35 Bugatti which first appeared in 1924 , and was to be credited with more than 2000 wins during its life-time .
7 Earlier , and none of them might have survived the ritual of the tunnel of terror …
8 Funnily enough , none of them would drink and drive or not wear a seatbelt . ’
9 I mean , I did , but I also had ‘ up ’ and ‘ down ’ , and none of them would do .
10 But none of them would do for today .
11 This was now attempted , but I got nowhere near finding out , because none of them would estimate over the phone .
12 ‘ I bet my friend , who commands the 4th Battalion of the Presidential Guard , that he could deploy 50 men and that none of them would lay hands on you .
13 in a trot but er I might just have this and none of them would win , I 've only , I would only praise them guessed up or that way or
14 As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself .
15 Without the traffic-free tranquillity of the town centre , none of them would have been noticeable .
16 There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained .
17 None of them would have any formal local attachment other than to the large constituency as a whole .
18 I knew perfectly well that if ever that crowd got hold of them none of them would have been left to tell the tale and took immediate steps for them to escape by the windows at the rear of the premises .
19 None of them would have provided any kind of challenge to your tightly guarded female bastion . ’
20 They were trapped in each other 's company , each one wanting to break away , to do anything rather than stay there together , but none of them would risk being thought unfeeling , or odd .
21 That was something none of them would like .
22 If she were in bed , none of them would happen .
23 ‘ That I had many acquaintances named Svend and that none of them would run off with a teenager . ’
24 Only a handful of people know I own this house , and none of them would reveal that information to anyone . ’
25 None of them would look out of place in the local supermarket or disco .
26 If there were enough of them , none of them would dare to pin him down , none of them could claim she was anything special .
27 ‘ All the thieves in London know where he lives , but none of them would dare to rob him .
28 Oh , the powerful lords owed my brother , and now me , monies but none of them would dare renege .
29 None of them would trust such men a yard .
30 It 's I do n't know what it was , er they hardly , we were having a discussion with the doctor , erm none of them would put forward their opinions or their views or what they thought
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