Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] all and [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In Baldersdale that process gathered no speed at all and indeed , never even crossed the finishing line .
2 But what really bugs our Sharon is that they dare to show any football at all and thus interrupt the daily stream of soap sludge .
3 Michael Bowerman , defending , said : ‘ The prosecution is not in a position to proceed now and that is nothing to do with the defendant at all and yet his life is in a state of limbo . ’
4 If the supposed punisher does not weaken a specified undesirable behaviour then it is not a punisher at all and so should not be used .
5 The House of Commons Environment Committee ( which could be presumed to care about being popular ) , the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee ( which has more expertise and rather less concern with popularity ) and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ( which has most expertise of all and absolutely no interest in popularity ) have all been robustly and consistently critical of most parts of the waste-disposal chain .
6 Erm , it it , it makes it very , very difficult to imagine how you 'll recover erm , but in the end it 's a personal decision to , to try to achieve self respect , to care for yourself better , to adopt good habits of nutrition and exercise , not dieting , cos diets are the biggest con trick of all and certainly , to rid your life of people who do n't respect and accept you the way you are .
7 There have been months when he has n't found any work at all and so he returns home for short periods .
8 They get practically no help at all and yet mum still manages to sort of save a bit
9 The school took a determined line in support of its belief in a right to education for all and eventually convinced parents that ‘ standards ’ were far from suffering and ‘ those traveller/gipsy children ’ gradually became known and valued as individuals and opposition virtually faded away .
10 In such circumstances there is every reason for believing that the representative producer will not raise output at all and hence that y will not deviate from y * ; .
11 I remember a recent visit to India where I hardly ate meat at all and never saw a chip .
12 Disgrace ‘ It is an absolute disgrace that these thugs terrorised defenceless animals for no reason at all and even threatened our staff who tried to intervene and we are not going to stand for that , ’ he said .
13 In the first car he was stopped ten or more times for no reason at all and always asked the same questions : is this your car … are you sure that it 's your car … are you sure it is n't a stolen car , and then asked to produce his driving documents .
14 Lots of them do n't carry any radio at all and even those who do almost certainly would n't be permanently tuned to the distress frequency . ’
15 Often it is not possible to provide any separate accommodation at all and even the bedroom may have to be shared .
16 As to Alain Lemarchand , she owed him no duty at all and certainly no favours .
17 He finds it difficult , some times impossible , to make any change of direction in Government without trying to explain that it is not really a change at all and certainly not a change that Lady Thatcher would not personally have approved .
18 HERE in the West , episode two of Blackeyes ( BBC-2 ) hardly advances the narrative at all and slowly picks at the same psychological scabs .
19 Groin : The most famous target of all and consequently often the best defended .
20 er you may never of had a house at all and yet you still got your family
21 He had not gone into the house at all and now he was furiously driving off .
22 The systems have got to deliver data reliably otherwise they 're not of any value at all and yet they 're going to have to deal with unpredictable events such as network failure , software failures , hardware failures , user failures or whatever .
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