Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] all [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Try not to view flats when the present occupant is likely to be cooking a meal because that will effectively swamp all other smells .
2 You may have got quite friendly now , but she does n't necessarily know all that goes on in Robert 's mind . ’
3 What place could better embody all that is best about the European identity ?
4 ‘ It seems to me , ’ he announced , ‘ we 'd better see all these pupils together .
5 ‘ I can only hope all this has shaken the kinks out of my system . ’
6 Most important , of course , was the recognition that , although in the long-term measures to increase income and reduce costs would enable Colleges to become more self-sufficient , in the short-term the finance available would not necessarily allow all desirable changes to be introduced simultaneously , and some prioritising would be required .
7 ‘ Relevant worship ’ does not necessarily require all present to participate vocally all the time .
8 Now we 'd better get all this stuff off to the labs , but there 's no point in sending his keys — we shall need them . ’
9 ‘ If it means that , I 'd rather do all that running an' swimming and stuff !
10 These five points do not cover all possible errors , but most spelling mistakes fall into one or more of these groups .
11 Some 40 per cent of primary schools are ‘ incomplete ’ : that is , they do not cover all six grades .
12 It is important to note that the term ‘ investment ’ , as used in the FSA , does not cover all conceivable investments .
13 Although industrialists were reported to have reacted with guarded optimism to the plan , many independent economists were agreed that the revenue increases would not cover all projected government spending , and that the government would thus be compelled to delay payments , including those on foreign debt service .
14 This problem does not affect all third parties to the same extent since the problem of " wasted votes " bears heavily on those parties whose support is spread across the country as opposed to those whose support is regionally concentrated .
15 We have a better staff-inmate ratio than France or west Germany , and if we include prison auxiliaries and night patrols , we do not compare all that badly with the Scandinavian countries .
16 Well , I 'll have a go but I may not eat all this but if it was smaller it 's really tasty as well .
17 Predictably though , the hypothesis that itis simply a matrix complex which is required to maintain normal hepatocyte function in culture can not explain all reported observations .
18 For an isolation experiment can not eliminate all possible environmental influences , all sources of experience ; it can not prove a universal negative , if only because universal negatives can not be proved .
19 This chapter does not consider all these in detail but concentrates on SIB Core Rule 36 , which recognises the validity of Chinese walls and attempts to accord protection to a firm which establishes a wall over which information does not pass without the need to obtain the consent of the customer , and SIB Core Rule 18 which permits disclosure of the " basis " only of commission .
20 At present , most county sides would happily take them on — and probably would not need all five days to effect the desired result .
21 and you 'll not need all that
22 You do not need all this to establish that a man is drunk or that there is mayhem when he is in charge of a class .
23 You 'll soon know all eight or ten shops .
24 He would in general recognize as as-if rights those declared by other judges in past decisions , but again he would not include all such decisions .
25 When Djilas eventually decided that a new class had emerged in communist society he did not include all administrative officials but rather the ‘ party or political bureaucracy ’ , by which he appeared to mean state functionaries who were also party members .
26 He himself had a beautiful voice , but he did not know all that amount of technique .
27 as if he did not know all this for himself , and was not endlessly wrestling , valiantly and incredulously , with the problem of his own chronic poverty !
28 Do not wait all this time before examining your catch .
29 A mechanical bush-clearing company was called in , but it soon became apparent that machines could not accomplish all that was required , and labourers from other tribes were set to work .
30 We could not identify all such workers as complete records have not survived and instead used the closest approximations possible — namely , records incorporating home address of all those ( more than 17000 ) attending the medical centre at the Sullom Voe oil terminal in Shetland during its construction phase ( believed to represent a high proportion of all but short stay workers ) ; 3500 construction workers at the Flotta oil terminal in Orkney ( incomplete data ) ; and more than 10000 offshore workers , being all those who obtained an offshore survival certificate ( required for such work ) in Scotland in the period from June 1976 ( the earliest date for which records have not been destroyed ) to 1980 .
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