Example sentences of "at all [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Very sick , and it 's got nothing at all to do with the sea . ’ |
| 2 | Interesting facts culled from a meeting with the leading lights of both Aldus and Adobe at last year 's Appleworld show indicate that the main problem with PostScript on the Macintosh is the QuickDraw to PostScript conversion process and has nothing at all to do with the LaserWriter or PostScript . |
| 3 | They probably have n't anything at all to do with the case . |
| 4 | The neo-pagans say this is nonsense , their religion has nothing at all to do with the devil , because the devil is an invention of the Christians . |
| 5 | Because of one of the two mentioned here in this note has nothing at all to do with the environment . |
| 6 | It has nothing at all to do with the cure of Legion . |
| 7 | This had , and George Eliot knew it , little or even nothing to do with Christ 's injunctions to his followers , and certainly nothing at all to do with the Incarnation which was now being celebrated as the congregation sang " Unto us a Boy is Born " as Daniel at the white-draped altar , with its lovingly embroidered white cloth , watched with Mr Ellenby over the bread and wine . |
| 8 | When they were not in chapel , at the dinner table or in their beds , there was nothing at all to do in the house except join the endless gossiping sessions with which João 's sisters and cousins filled their idle hours . |
| 9 | But we are concerned with a fundamentally different matter , the possible ways in which some entity ( or property ) , already accepted mentally , might be identified by a speaker , either for the purposes of his own thought or for communicating some idea to an audience ; in the latter case , there is no reason at all to object to the suggestion that the same item might be referred to either by ( 7 ) , or by ( 4 ) or ( 5 ) . |
| 10 | Neither Marxism Today , Socialist Review nor Tribune had anything at all to say about the programme . |
| 11 | The Bible does have quite a bit to say about Christians — all Christians — being witnesses for Jesus , BUT it does not have very much at all to say about the sort of ‘ Witnessing ’ being done by ‘ Damnation Derek ’ . |
| 12 | There was no consideration at all given to the possibility of disincentives operating in the informal social context , and a total neglect of social and economic incentives of all kinds . |
| 13 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 14 | With so many awkward questions hanging over the case , Coleman found it hard to imagine that the government would take it into court — and was not at all reassured by the thought . |
| 15 | Right , the , I was , about to er come to that , erm the erm , there is no reason why a group should not have more than one prisoner erm , the practical situation is that , that groups are queuing up to , to get a prisoner at the moment in fact , erm , not always the situation but at presently there is a waiting list for who have groups to have a prisoner allocated to them , erm , if we so wish er , ah , if , if a group comes onto the list who has er , ah , and their prisoner is released and , and we , we er in that situation we , and any group without a prisoner at all goes to the head of the list and be allocated straight away , but we could request a second prisoner and that case would be put to the bottom of the list , so when the other groups who , who 've got no prison will take priority now , but we , we could request a second prisoner if we so wanted so you are talking about a motion at the A G M , but it 's not really necessary |
| 16 | In Improving Secondary Schools ( Hargreaves Report ILEA 1984 ) , specific recommendations , aimed at all involved in the delivery of the education service , are highlighted to reduce levels of underachievement and disaffection . |
| 17 | With no daylight at all penetrating to the interior of the foundry , it looked more hellish than ever , its furnaces glowing fiercely in the smoky gloom . |
| 18 | Analysis of pre-war Japan is not at all characterized by the absence of attention to the state , quite the contrary . |
| 19 | It has operated on the rather inequitable basis of paying different amounts of money or none at all according to the source of disability rather than its extent . |
| 20 | Obviously she had walked into some sort of a secret and Felipe was not at all amused by the fact . |
| 21 | ‘ At one point we thought we had got an agreement but then they said they did not want any conditions at all attached to the application . ’ |
| 22 | But it does not at all follow from the fact that causal circumstances in a sense guarantee their effects that we can predict those effects better than we do . |
| 23 | As Kenny and Kenny suggest , the " position of the landlord is now very much strengthened " and the " question is whether licences have anything at all to offer to the landlord looking for an income from his residential property . " |
| 24 | It does n't take them long at all to get in the outskirts of London , it 's weaving your way |
| 25 | But most of all , I was n't at all impressed with the absence of Monica Seles . |
| 26 | Billy was not at all impressed by the chapel and was trying to out-stare some heifers in the next field . |
| 27 | The reply of the Government representative , Viscount Gage , was very unsatisfactory , in that it had been prepared beforehand , and did not at all deal with the points raised by Lord Charnwood . |
| 28 | These are not at all interwoven in the style of most of the reconstructions . |
| 29 | It seemed that no obstacle at all stood in the way of the Empress 's plans — unless Isabel were willing to sacrifice Edmund . |
| 30 | She says : ‘ I am not embarrassed at all talking to the girls . |