Example sentences of "not [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even tried not to breathe all . |
| 2 | Despite Fujimori 's assurances to the OAS , US Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger stated that the USA would adopt a wait-and-see attitude on whether or not to restore all or part of US$320,000,000 in suspended economic and security aid . |
| 3 | Members of the research and development department , put under the massive strain of trying to turn production over from rock slippers to ‘ rubber craft ’ ( not proving all that popular according to market research anyway ) were dropping like flies . |
| 4 | We have set up a Review Group but I do not think all action can wait on its recommendations . |
| 5 | However , USL says it 's not using all the Tivoli applications and will be going to Pyramid Technology Corp for its user and group management and storage device control , Unisys Corp for its software installation and distribution and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssystemes AG for its print management . |
| 6 | David Batty , the combative Leeds and England midfielder , is anxious not to see all the hard work put in this term go unrewarded . |
| 7 | ‘ All those cosy pictures of the family around the fire , all that stiff upper lip during the war — and now she is determined not to see all her work go down the drain . ’ |
| 8 | These other offences do not cover all eventualities , and , moreover , it may be argued with some force that child sexual abuse at home ought to be labelled separately . |
| 9 | I can not cover all the laws . |
| 10 | Some 40 per cent of primary schools are ‘ incomplete ’ : that is , they do not cover all six grades . |
| 11 | For a start the Protocol does not cover all the chemicals that deplete the ozone layer . |
| 12 | A final reason providing grounds upon which to criticise the programme was that the network of field workers did not cover all of the rural population of Bangladesh . |
| 13 | On one weekly visit the relative could not cover all the needs of the elderly person . |
| 14 | It is important to note that the term ‘ investment ’ , as used in the FSA , does not cover all conceivable investments . |
| 15 | These five points do not cover all possible errors , but most spelling mistakes fall into one or more of these groups . |
| 16 | The above discussion does not cover all aspects of thematic structure , but it is probably sufficient for our current purposes . |
| 17 | A one day meeting can not cover all the topics to which Doll has made contributions ; his early work in clinical gastroenterology , for example , showed the uselessness of a bland diet for peptic ulcers and also helped establish the importance of basing decisions about treatment on the results of controlled clinical trials . |
| 18 | Although industrialists were reported to have reacted with guarded optimism to the plan , many independent economists were agreed that the revenue increases would not cover all projected government spending , and that the government would thus be compelled to delay payments , including those on foreign debt service . |
| 19 | This does not affect all farmers equally , however . |
| 20 | This problem does not affect all third parties to the same extent since the problem of " wasted votes " bears heavily on those parties whose support is spread across the country as opposed to those whose support is regionally concentrated . |
| 21 | We have not marched all this way to sit and wait ! |
| 22 | We have a better staff-inmate ratio than France or west Germany , and if we include prison auxiliaries and night patrols , we do not compare all that badly with the Scandinavian countries . |
| 23 | better not eat all of that . |
| 24 | Well , I 'll have a go but I may not eat all this but if it was smaller it 's really tasty as well . |
| 25 | The government is determined not to forgive all the debts , but most experts reckon that some relief will eventually have to be granted . |
| 26 | While it is true that we have until now been concerned with consciousness , and used the term " mental events " in the ordinary way so as not to include all that may be included in the mental , the rest of the subject-matter of that domain is not thereby excluded from our coming reflections . |
| 27 | who does not throw all caution to the wind as soon as he is attacked , but bides his time , |
| 28 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 29 | While concert performance can not reproduce all the subtleties of a recording , the band was drilled to precision and communicated the necessary edge with solid strength . |
| 30 | It can not reproduce all the recording and reporting which has taken place during a pupil 's years of secondary education . |