Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his Dictionary ( 1697 ) , Bayle points out that although the ‘ new philosophers ’ do not set out to be sceptics , they go even further in extending sceptical arguments to the conclusion that smells , colours , and tastes , ‘ are perceptions of our soul and that they do not exist at all in the objects of our senses ’ . |
| 2 | In addition , the constant incursion and retreat of the sea creates and maintains vast zones that are neither wholly marine , nor wholly freshwater , nor wholly land-based ; intertidal zones that vary in width , between spring tides and neap , and which could not persist , or would not exist at all , were it not for the tides . |
| 3 | Although the family in the orthodox reader can not exist at all — there is no family so griefless , angerless , humourless , or so utterly devoid of conflict as the family in the orthodox reader — it is recognisable in externals … the detached house … father at leisure with the lawnmower ( or going to the office with the brief case ) , the large dog and the aristocratic cat , the tidy organised family consisting only of one father , one mother , one son , one daughter . |
| 4 | The only liberty I mean , is a liberty connected with order ; that not only exists along with order and virtue but , which can not exist at all without them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The other and sometimes more difficult problem arises when the other firm does not exist at all , someone having , quite simply , forged a letterhead . |
| 7 | All three types of pattern , ( written , diagrammatical and digital or Form ) , are based on a tension , or gauge , swatch ; without this , the pattern would not exist at all in any form , because all knitting patterns are basically a notation of how to knit a shape with a given yarn and stitch type , mathematically calculated from the original swatch . |
| 8 | She suggests that the educational infrastructure does not exist at all in our present system but could be provided . |
| 9 | If the world had not first existed in the mind of God , it would not exist at all . |
| 10 | The penis did not exist at all in the British sex film because it was considered rude . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I am known yet do not exist at all . |
| 13 | A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms . |
| 14 | She did not think at all of the consequences , only of the act itself . |
| 15 | Or did she not think at all ? |
| 16 | This may seem irrelevant to Hamlet taking revenge ; but this scene ( Act IV , Scene V ) shows the contrast between Hamlet , who thinks deeply about actions and their consequences ; and Laertes , the man of action , who does not think at all about the consequences of what he does , being driven by his heart rather than his head . |
| 17 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 18 | It is a ‘ right ’ to the extent that , at the trial , the prosecution may not comment at all on the accused 's failure to answer questions and the judge may refer to it , but not adversely : the point is that in no circumstances should silence be used against an accused person . |
| 19 | ‘ I am afraid I can not comment at all , ’ said Sir Donald Hall , deputy chairman of GEC-Marconi . |
| 20 | I could scarcely think at all . |
| 21 | And it will not hurt at all |
| 22 | Clarke said of Sampson , ‘ Harry , could not bat at all , ’ being what he termed a ‘ poter , ’ whilst Sampson retorted that ‘ Bill did n't know how to bowl , ’ and that ‘ a child could play him . ’ |
| 23 | Therefore : the ‘ unegoistic ’ , self-sacrificing , imprudent , is nothing special — it is common to all the drives — they do not consider the advantage of the whole ego ( because they do not consider at all ! ) , they act contrary to our advantage , against the ego : and often for the ego — innocent in both cases ! |
| 24 | In contrast , among the explosively breeding European common frog only one out of 33 males mated twice , and 16 did not mate at all . |
| 25 | Only 4% of the females did not mate , and even those were vigorously courted ; but 21% of the males did not mate at all , even though they courted hard . |
| 26 | To make up the numbers he had the Dutch-Belgian army , over thirty thousand infantrymen in all , which he did not trust at all . |
| 27 | They did not fall at all . |
| 28 | This remarkable condottiere — the word is pure Italian and does not translate at all well ; it describes a mercenary , but perhaps ‘ soldier of fortune ’ is more polite and catches the flavour better — not only managed to hold on to his head , but to great booty as well . |
| 29 | ‘ He or she did not resign at all . ’ |
| 30 | Seb did not doubt at all that the man riding Vulcan was Meredith Putt , even though he had been masked . |