Example sentences of "it [verb] not [vb infin] at all " in BNC.

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1 It did not accord at all with the normal context of school life .
2 Habershon 's scheme was only eleventh on Angell and Pownall 's and it did not appear at all on Burn s , g while Rochead and Dwyer 's schemes were both rejected by Angell and Pownall for slightly exceeding the stipulated site .
3 The court went on to record that the issues thus created had been narrowed by the acceptance on the part of the applicant 's counsel that the right of silence could not be invoked against the Director prior to the charge of the suspected person , and by counsel for the Director that if , as he submitted , the power to require information did not cease at the time of charge then it did not cease at all ( save in cases where the charge was not pursued ) until the investigation came to an end on the conviction or acquittal of the person charged .
4 So that when John suggested they should spend Sunday ‘ watching the fun ’ down at the Railway Office , it did not seem at all out of key .
5 It did not help at all that upon arrival yesterday the royal couple instantly touched base in that comforting symbol of past British power , the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank .
6 If it does not vary at all , increase the volume a little .
7 But of course it is sometimes not possible , because historical research demonstrates conclusively that the kind of standardised written language which can be used to represent ethnicity or nationality is a rather late historic construction — mostly of the 19th century or even later — and in any case quite often it does not exist at all , as between Serbs and Croats .
8 I hope this helps you to see that it does not matter at all whether that regression to his past life was factual or whether Barry 's subconscious had caused him to invent the whole thing in his imagination .
9 It adjoins Vela and Pyxis , and is always very low as seen from Britain ; part of it does not rise at all .
10 Indeed , we often think that it does not figure at all on the Government 's agenda .
11 While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted .
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