Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at all " in BNC.

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1 Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all .
2 As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies .
3 Such an approach enables active work to go on at all times , including those when no change of placement is contemplated or during periods of waiting for a suitable placement to become available .
4 There was nothing to go on at all .
5 There is absolutely nothing else to go on at all . ’
6 Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all .
7 Folly tried to protest that she did n't want to go in at all , but her guide 's businesslike attitude and obvious haste made it difficult to intervene .
8 On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS .
9 Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all .
10 It was as if the news had never come through at all .
11 than my job then he said I presume you 've got mixed feelings , I said no my feelings are n't mixed up at all , I 'm quite , I 'm quite sure of my feelings of what I know , I said David I would n't associate myself , I would n't drink and I would n't go out with anybody in this building and he nearly fell over and he said dare I ask why ?
12 Dickensian child victims grow into upright citizens if they grow up at all .
13 My hic hyacinths have all come out except no , they 've all come out , one goron l looks like it 's gone and lot congealed little bad and another hyacinth has two have come up and other ones not come up at all .
14 Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all .
15 It was bloody embarrassing at first and all , I can tell you , as these two girls sat there right in front of my nose , but the girls it did n't phase out at all . ’
16 He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men .
17 He was very unhappy at having to come out at all , but I think he ‘ s just pig-ignorant rather than involved .
18 Okay , so you tha , you do n't need to come out at all .
19 He leaned over to catch his father 's sleeve and hissed , ‘ No feckin' need to come back at all ! ’
20 He wondered why she bothered to come back at all .
21 Few other landowners could afford to wait a generation for the return of their money , if it was to come back at all .
22 I know I should n't really cos I should n't expect them to come back at all , but it annoys me when
23 Despite the fact that regular maintenance was a statutory requirement and despite some successful legal actions to enforce the statutory provisions , regular dredging and attention to leaks were perfunctory or never carried out at all by canal companies owned by the railways .
24 That 's your job and the Franks Report shows that the function was not being carried out at all .
25 Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions .
26 ‘ The first thing to remember is that 99 per cent of the people you come into contact with are people whom you do n't have to worry about at all .
27 Nothing to worry about at all . ’
28 In fact , our Multivitamin Liquid leaves you with hardly anything to worry about at all .
29 I think Madam yeah she complains Madam of er scratches to her arms and bruises to her upper arms where he allegedly grabbed hold of her erm and that really is it , nothing to worry about at all .
30 In the first place , the mass media are ‘ so deeply embedded in the [ political ] system that without them political activity in its contemporary forms could hardly carry on at all ’ .
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