Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | In brief , the actual Westminster model is that of authoritarian single-party governments in a House of Commons dominated by the Prime Minister and composed largely of disciplined parties with most votes in the House of Commons being highly predictable ; every three or four years there is a general election held under a crude simple majority electoral system with minimal participation by the electorate in the choice of who shall be their candidate , though they do have the choice between the candidates who are selected by the party activists ; between 20% , and 30% of the electorate do not vote at all . |
| 2 | The inquiry into Puddephat 's murder did not feature at all . |
| 3 | The penis did not exist at all in the British sex film because it was considered rude . ’ |
| 4 | After installation , if the monitor does not work at all , check that the card is firmly pushed into its slot . |
| 5 | Mainstream work did not refer at all to the potential role of minority languages in the curriculum , nor to the major debates that have taken place in this area . |
| 6 | BLDSC does not deal at all with sets of orchestral scores , non-book materials , fiction , ‘ low level ’ English language monographs and basic texts , playsets and collections of material for ethnic minorities . |
| 7 | Dana was bewitching when she smiled like that and Roman did n't seem at all annoyed by her persistence . |
| 8 | Thus the husband and wife became joint owners and possible tenants ; the children became beneficiaries ; the possible future spouse did not figure at all . |
| 9 | She suggests that the educational infrastructure does not exist at all in our present system but could be provided . |
| 10 | It is always very low from England , and Eta does not rise at all . |
| 11 | The girls grin did not alter at all as she drew her right hand from her sleeve , holding a large , ancient , projectile-firing pistol , and blew off a large bit of the creature 's head . |
| 12 | My head did n't hurt at all , although it did feel a bit light . |
| 13 | Not a bit what Owen had in mind , but since the unions had neither the resources nor the will to use them , the revolution did not come at all . |
| 14 | When I look upon the wall of my room , the wall does not act at all , nor is capable of acting ; the perceiving is an act or operation in me . |
| 15 | Either that or you will have decided to build that extension you 've both wanted for so long to put that rattan furniture in , and when it 's finished discover that the blessed stuff does n't fit at all . |
| 16 | The main reason for this was , of course , the dominance of the model — a model in which the real-wage rate does not figure at all — in the teaching of macroeconomics . |
| 17 | ‘ But the ‘ carrot and stick ’ theory does not work at all once man has reached an adequate subsistence level and is motivated by higher needs … ‘ |
| 18 | The argument does not depend at all on demand growth : it rests on the view that to invest in Sizewell to replace old , but not necessarily worn out , plant will actually cheapen the provision of the same amount of electricity . |
| 19 | To try to lead a normal life did n't work at all . |
| 20 | His voice did n't sound at all unfriendly though , not like that tone he uses when he catches me up on the table eating the butter . |
| 21 | If your publishing operation does n't typeset at all then desktop publishing is going to cost you money rather than save it — at least in the initial stages . |
| 22 | The other and sometimes more difficult problem arises when the other firm does not exist at all , someone having , quite simply , forged a letterhead . |
| 23 | But the more you try and get things done , the more you realize that the government does n't care at all , apart from making a profit . |
| 24 | Yeah , I do n't m , my dad will do that , my dad cooks you see , mum do n't cook at all , dad normally does , and when dad comes to mine he wants to get in my kitchen |
| 25 | ‘ For once , no , the description did n't fit at all . |
| 26 | As one would expect , the Reynolds number range depends on the length/diameter ratio of the pipe ( and periodic transition does not occur at all when this ratio is less than about 60 ) . |
| 27 | If the property does not sell at all , or if it takes a long time to sell , the local authority search result may become dated . |
| 28 | I discovered that if the ribber is on half pitch , the transfer needle does n't move at all . |
| 29 | And certainly , trade book publishing did not do at all badly in nineteen ninety one in a recessionary environment and erm , there are , as Frank has mentioned particularly within Penguin , quite a lot of internal restructuring has gone on and one would hope that margins would improve over the next few years as a result of that . |
| 30 | While it would be foolish to suggest that a comparable problem does not exist at all in Britain , it is important to recognize that ours is a more simple system in which individual agencies have more clearly defined powers and more definite boundaries to their responsibilities and sphere of influence . |