Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] 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 | From this viewpoint , the criminal is an individual who has been labelled so by society , and this labelling does not apply to all individuals who break laws . |
| 5 | After installation , if the monitor does not work at all , check that the card is firmly pushed into its slot . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If a law does not account for all that happens , then it has to be modified . |
| 9 | The Act does not apply to all party floors but only to a floor partition which separates buildings or parts of buildings approached solely by separate staircases or entrances from without ( London Building Acts ( Amendment ) Act 1939 , s4 ) . |
| 10 | Dana was bewitching when she smiled like that and Roman did n't seem at all annoyed by her persistence . |
| 11 | Thus the husband and wife became joint owners and possible tenants ; the children became beneficiaries ; the possible future spouse did not figure at all . |
| 12 | She suggests that the educational infrastructure does not exist at all in our present system but could be provided . |
| 13 | But Engels , in later editions , added a footnote to this sentence stating that this remark does not apply to all human history but only to written history . |
| 14 | It is always very low from England , and Eta does not rise at all . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The lack of an epistemological foundation for the sociology of knowledge did not seem to all philosophers to signal its failure . |
| 17 | My head did n't hurt at all , although it did feel a bit light . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 … ‘ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A widow of fifty-eight , Dorothy Hardisty had the great quality of adoring children , though her generosity of spirit did not extend to all adults . |
| 25 | To try to lead a normal life did n't work at all . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The answer is , of course , that the new clause does not relate to all the private operators , but it does relate to the subsidiaries being set up in the Bill . |
| 29 | The other and sometimes more difficult problem arises when the other firm does not exist at all , someone having , quite simply , forged a letterhead . |
| 30 | 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 . |