Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [indef pn] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be stressed that the figures do not reflect the fact that a considerable number of respondents answered ‘ yes ’ to the principle of capping but went on to argue that institutions should receive nothing at all by way of grants ( see , for example , the response from the Legal Resources Group ) . |
| 2 | But an intensively worked arable farm growing continuous corn with the use of synthetic fertilizers , herbicides , and pesticides may have none at all . |
| 3 | If there are four candidates in a constituency — Conservative , Labour , Liberal Democrat and Scottish Nationalist Party — and if thanks to the AV the Labour candidate is elected , first votes given to him will get 100% political representation in the constituency and first votes given to the other three candidates will get none at all : a strange sort of PARR , just like the sort our present system provides ! |
| 4 | A column was the rubric under which the writer could put anything at all . |
| 5 | * At the present rate of destruction many countries whose only real asset is the forest may have none at all by the year 2,000 . |
| 6 | As George Orwell noted in 1984 , the fear that the thought-police might monitor everybody at all times was enough to keep Big Brother 's subjects in a state of paralysed terror . |
| 7 | Unlikely , thought Jaq , that the Astropath would mention anything at all ever again … |
| 8 | Meadows rich in herbs can support up to 24 different species of butterfly , chemically treated fields can support none at all . |
| 9 | Such males have large numbers of offspring while others might have none at all . |
| 10 | The multiplicity of utterance meanings does not mean that any linguistic expression can mean anything at all in complete disregard of what it means as a sentence . |
| 11 | Felipe could do nothing at all . |