Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] not [vb infin] [prep] all " in BNC.

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1	However , these facilities alone do not cope with all possible diagnostic problems .
2	I just do not understand at all . ’
3	They were , he said , ‘ cultural orphans ’ , and ‘ the children just did not know at all how to keep a house clean .
4	Gedanken still did not look at all happy .
5	[ The ] new languages provided only very modest space for parody : these languages hardly know , and now do not know at all , sacred words , since they themselves were born to a significant extent out of a parody of the sacred word .
6	Within this framework , the feat of believing that someone will come the day after tomorrow does not seem at all out of the way .
7	These result largely from its use in patients who either do not benefit at all or who derive only temporary improvement or whose rescue leaves them more severely disabled than they were .
8	A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms .
9	When people did not use a form of credit they had considered , usually it was because they either did not buy at all , or paid cash instead .
10	I am known yet do not exist at all .
11	As pointed out by the report of the Law Commissions , this requirement causes problems whenever property either does not pass at all , or passes independently of the transfer of the bill of lading , or where the transfer of the bill is not causative of the passing of property .
12	These comments may well apply to English , and perhaps even a large number of languages , but they certainly do not apply to all .

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