Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have chosen bread to make up sandwiches , use only the thinnest scrape of fat ( preferably a polyunsaturated margarine or nothing at all ) . |
| 2 | Collectively , the population of Britain perform millions of acts every day during their waking hours , yet the net result of all this is not chaos and confusion , but a reasonable approximation of order : motorists drive on the left-hand side of the road , not on the right ; shoppers offer coins and banknotes , cheques and cheque cards in exchange for goods and services , not goats and chickens or nothing at all ; love-making takes place indoors in bedrooms , and not outside on the pavement . |
| 3 | The best time to do this is first thing in the morning , after going to the bathroom , wearing your night clothes or nothing at all , but keep it the same every day . |
| 4 | ‘ Now it 's a Brahmin , or nothing at all — which would be simpler . ’ |
| 5 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 6 | Did it mean something , or nothing at all ? |
| 7 | Or nothing at all ? |
| 8 | It 's either all or nothing at all down there . |
| 9 | Cheaper bags often have small thin baffles which can flatten away from the zip or none at all . |
| 10 | It can be applied to all kinds of objective situations or none at all . |
| 11 | He said the bill would end the situation where an employer had to dismiss either all the strikers or none at all . |
| 12 | If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety . |
| 13 | What is needed is either full co-ordination , or none at all , with countries concentrating on their domestic needs . |
| 14 | It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all . |
| 15 | I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) . |
| 16 | What of those stuck with a 10-year guarantee , or none at all ? |
| 17 | The Ingleton glens would be as sweet by any name , or none at all . |
| 18 | In this paper he pointed out that the problem was not to explain why his thin fibres were strong , since a single chain of atoms must , inescapably , have either the theoretical strength or none at all , but rather to explain why the thicker fibres were weak . |
| 19 | Some have handles without mounts , or none at all . |
| 20 | You may accept this choice , make another selection — or none at all if you prefer . |
| 21 | If , by mating with more than one male , the female could persuade the males to help rear the young , then she would ensure a better chance of survival for her offspring than if she had only one helper or none at all . |
| 22 | Masturbation , in fact , goes with either having a great deal of sex or very little or none at all . |
| 23 | Thus Indochinese with top marks from the Grandes Écoles in France returned home to serve under Frenchmen with much lower qualifications , or none at all , on a salary which was approximately a fifth of what would be paid to a European doing the same work . |
| 24 | Many animals have equally poor accommodation or none at all . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The figures are different to the perception of those not incontinent who were asked the same question : 71% ( 2564 ) thought that the condition would have a great deal or fair amount of effect on their lifestyle and only 20% ( 692 ) not much or none at all . |
| 27 | But a very small Reform , or none at all , would — or , at least , might — have involved the aristocrats in far larger losses and concessions than any which they incurred through the Reform Act . |
| 28 | Neither of these patterns of politics was really pulled into view by pluralism , because that perspective could not cope with too much raucous political activity — still less with too little or none at all . |
| 29 | It might be argued that this approach downgrades sexual intercourse without consent where little violence or none at all is used . |
| 30 | A family with the disk ranging from a sack-like bag covered with skin or thin scales to a more rigid structure covered with large plates , usually armed with spinelets , granules , or simple rods , the density of covering varying ; the characters of the oral frame falling into broad categories ; either the jaws longer than broad with many papillae or as broad as long usually with fewer papillae , rarely more than 6–7 ; the arms usually noded but sometimes only slightly so ; arm spines usually erect , often long and rugose ; the tentacle pores either large and open with small tentacle scales or none at all or small with a variety of tentacle scales . |