Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] not [verb] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rash in such cases may not look at all like simple uncomplicated scabies . |
| 2 | On the other hand , a tail-skid will not grip at all on tarmac , but is better on the grass or earth , particularly if it is soft . |
| 3 | However , it might be thought that where sado-masochism takes place between adult consenting parties and the injury sustained is not serious , the law should not intervene at all . |
| 4 | Were there not so much , so dense and so hot , the Sun would not light at all . |
| 5 | Spring 1992 and the Spitfire was wheeled out of the hangar and engine runs commenced , only to find that there appeared to be oil pressure problems until finally the engine would not start at all , in fact the Merlin was locked solid . |
| 6 | She performed a complicated manoeuvre , which Julia could not follow at all , and brought her two hands up between the strings held by her son . |
| 7 | Exposing fruit flies to X-rays or certain chemicals produces mutations , many of them lethal , as a result of which the flies can not survive at all . |
| 8 | As a result of this , it is now possible to leave a natural history museum knowing that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height , and that elephants can not jump at all , and that as many as a thousand dead ants have been found inside the stomach of a single mole . |
| 9 | There was speculation in fact that helium might not liquify at all . |
| 10 | It is a ‘ right ’ to the extent that , at the trial , the prosecution may not comment at all on the accused 's failure to answer questions and the judge may refer to it , but not adversely : the point is that in no circumstances should silence be used against an accused person . |
| 11 | What is more , they are planted at high density — equivalent to about 20 on an average sized modern suburban building plot — and sometimes in places where trees should not grow at all . |
| 12 | All three types of pattern , ( written , diagrammatical and digital or Form ) , are based on a tension , or gauge , swatch ; without this , the pattern would not exist at all in any form , because all knitting patterns are basically a notation of how to knit a shape with a given yarn and stitch type , mathematically calculated from the original swatch . |
| 13 | Thus , it was clear from the composition of the new cabinet that , while foreign policy might follow a new direction , domestic policy would not change at all . |
| 14 | Currently , individual LIFESPAN processes can not communicate at all . |
| 15 | When it comes to the more subtle realms of responses and sensitivities to homoeopathic remedies , even small strain variations could so change the sensitivity of the species under study that one strain might respond well to a particular remedy while a second , apparently similar strain may not respond at all . |
| 16 | It may be found that the model will not descend at all unless a considerable amount of negative pitch is available . |
| 17 | However fine the grave is for Sarah , if it is not his , then his status will not change at all . |
| 18 | If the reward is unattractive or insufficient then the individual may not perform at all . |
| 19 | Yields from C 4 crops may not increase at all if they are subjected to stronger competition from C 3 weeds . |
| 20 | The United Kingdom , in its observations on the preliminary draft , expressed the hope that the Convention would not apply at all in cases in which the address of the person on whom documents were to be served was unknown ; it was unhappy about the possible effect of what was to become Article 15 in such cases and more generally felt that the provisions of the Convention were not apt where the address was unknown . |
| 21 | To say that they were here only because of a hunch would not do at all . |
| 22 | In fact , his chances will not alter at all because he has had the valuable opportunity of leading two A tours and the grey matter of his leadership on the field is well known . ’ |
| 23 | There are numbers of rooms that an individual can not enter at all , or only at certain times , for reasons of status , sex , or even age . |
| 24 | In contrast , Coltheart ( 1980 ) and Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin ( 1980 ) suggested that in deep dyslexia the normal reading system can not operate at all , and that the reading that the patient can manage is mediated by an alternative processing system located in the right hemisphere , a system which might play no role at all in normal reading . |
| 25 | If the patient can not walk at all , you should have a special wheelchair for outdoor use ; while an indoor wheelchair has large back wheels and relatively thin tyres , the outdoor version may have four small wheels with thick fat tyres , which should be kept pumped up to the correct pressure . |
| 26 | Although the family in the orthodox reader can not exist at all — there is no family so griefless , angerless , humourless , or so utterly devoid of conflict as the family in the orthodox reader — it is recognisable in externals … the detached house … father at leisure with the lawnmower ( or going to the office with the brief case ) , the large dog and the aristocratic cat , the tidy organised family consisting only of one father , one mother , one son , one daughter . |