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

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1 So er I I thought to myself well I du n no , I du n no all these Newton girls have been off to Sri Lanka or or , or Zaire or wherever and you 'd you know , is n't that great ?
2 The methods we have covered do not represent all of those now being used , but they open up the possibilities of new approaches , some of which should become common tools of primary health care in the decade ahead .
3 But , obviously , do not wash all the media in one go : stagger the chambers at weekly intervals , so there will always be a large enough population of nitrifying bacteria left .
4 This episode leads me to the idea that at the physical level , there is a need for a philosophy to overcome disasters and fear , and also to help that majority of people who do not fulfil all their biological needs , and who have to sublimate them .
5 The familiarity of this divide at least seems to show that we do not treat all behaviour as determined , and thus that a distinction between autonomous and non-autonomous individuals is part of our everyday conception of the world .
6 If the interdependencies do not involve all SBUs in a corporate group , it might be possible to form largely separable business clusters and form the portfolio-grid analysis in terms of those rather than smaller SBUs .
7 Local authorities possess in the full council meeting a ‘ centre of decision-making ’ , but they do not control all public policy decisions within the geographical area in which they operate .
8 However , international comparative reviews do not credit all private-sector corporations with better efficiency than public , and ‘ The real purpose of contracting out , as with state industry privatization , is as much to weaken the unions ’ monopoly as to save money' ( The Economist , 17 September 1983 , 53 ) .
9 These other offences do not cover all eventualities , and , moreover , it may be argued with some force that child sexual abuse at home ought to be labelled separately .
10 Some 40 per cent of primary schools are ‘ incomplete ’ : that is , they do not cover all six grades .
11 These five points do not cover all possible errors , but most spelling mistakes fall into one or more of these groups .
12 There will be legal pressure to settle the case : successful defendants do not recover all of their costs , and the simplest of libel actions is likely to run up at least £15,000 in costs for each party prior to trial .
13 We have set up a Review Group but I do not think all action can wait on its recommendations .
14 languages are differently equipped to express different real-world relations , and they certainly do not express all aspects of meaning with equal ease .
15 Although we predict that many of these sites are DNA-PK phosphorylation sites , we do not expect all Ser-Gln motifs to serve as DNA-PK recognition elements .
16 Lastly , question ( 4 ) referred to the court in Case C 221/89 is concerned with the fact that the Act of 1988 also applies to fishing vessels which were registered in the old register but , because they do not satisfy all the new requirements , in principle ceased to be registered on 31 March 1989 .
17 The Appropriation Accounts are concerned with monies voted by Parliament ; but although they cover a vast area they do not contain all public monies .
18 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 .
19 Kin are those with whom we adopt the special style of informal communication which is adopted towards members of the immediate domestic family who are treated in this specially favoured way even when they do not live all together in one household .
20 The plan is not a blueprint for the future , it stresses , merely the starting signal for a process in which dialogue and choices made by individuals , private industry and government will shape the environmental programmes : ‘ What we want to do , in the realization that we do not understand all the relationships , is to indicate the conditions under which an environmental quality can be attained that will provide future generations with as many options as possible . ’
21 You should not need to feel inadequate because you do not understand all the technical terms of someone else 's profession .
22 I would expect that because at this stage they do not understand all the pros and cons .
23 Because pensions come in a variety of forms , even many sophisticated people fail to collect all their entitlements or do not understand all the options that are available to them .
24 On the other hand , I know that at least some people must have read it because each day I get a pile of letters about my book , many asking questions or making detailed comments that indicate that they have read it , even if they do not understand all of it .
25 First , ratepayers do not provide all , or even the major proportion of , local authority revenue .
26 Usually we do not know all the sites , and we do not know if they were all contemporary or only used seasonally .
27 I feel I do not know all the secrets of your heart .
28 We do not know all the scientific nuances of the problem .
29 to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much
30 Make it a firm arrangement faithfully followed , and do not allow all the other urgent distractions to crush out this opportunity .
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