Example sentences of "[adv] not [verb] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality of anorexia for you was what , just not eating at all ? |
| 2 | I would binge and vomit or just not eat at all . |
| 3 | I feel I should look about and see streams of groups being angry and hateful — but it 's just not happening at all . ’ |
| 4 | Switch it on there it 's just not working at all . |
| 5 | In English writing , word boundaries are marked by spaces , but morpheme boundaries are generally not marked at all . |
| 6 | This was a real turn up for the books , and is an observation still not accepted by all medical practitioners . |
| 7 | The concept of Shareware is still not understood by all . |
| 8 | Thus it is possible to start quite modestly and gradually build a really powerful system , while staff and overheads remain low ( possibly not expanding at all ) and knowledge and information multiply . |
| 9 | All dried peas have a shell life of up to a year — any longer and they may well need extra cooking , or possibly not soften at all . |
| 10 | Hip hop is the most adventurous form of music at the moment , although life 's too short not to listen to all sorts of music . |
| 11 | Editors are not well paid ( one hears ) and contributors are usually not paid at all ( one knows ! ) . |
| 12 | And so to sleep — perchance not to dream at all . |
| 13 | Drugs often make people feel they 're coping , when they 're really not coping at all . |
| 14 | In some of the other source studies discounting was quite appropriately not applied as all costs and benefits occurred within a year . |
| 15 | I 've sat on the district management board of Health Authority for four years and watched Labour Councillors coming sometimes , often not coming at all , sitting there saying nothing , debating very little in the way of useful contributions until , I have to say , Councillor came along and er a er , sorry to get you unpopular with the rest of your colleagues |
| 16 | But intermediaries are often not required at all . |
| 17 | One aspect of scientific style , however , is that in a passive sentence the person who acts is often not mentioned at all , to symbolise the scientific ideal that the procedures should be objective and repeatable , independent of the agent who carries them out . |
| 18 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |
| 19 | Far too many IT systems are reported to be hardly used , or even not used at all , because of their unreliability or irrelevance to the needs of clients . |
| 20 | If , he reasoned , you could n't live in a fashionable district with a BMW in a parking spot you had paid for , then you might as well not live at all . |
| 21 | If the Althusserian mode of production is made up of differential times and histories , ‘ a complex ‘ intersection ’ of the different times , rhythms , turnovers , etc. ’ , then each element can not express the whole because the whole is only accessible as a concept , which is precisely not expressed at all . |
| 22 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |
| 23 | It 's the verges that 're either not cut at all or they 're cut with one of two machines , the primo is little bits and the machines that so aptly described . |
| 24 | In the pellets or scats of many of the predators the teeth are either not broken at all or have only suffered minor damage , and these are for the most part the same species for which little damage to the jaws is evident . |
| 25 | Definitions of culture are either not provided at all or conflate distinct conceptions such as symbolization , ethnicity and lifestyle ( see the contributions of Lynch and Verma to Parekh , 1989a ) . |
| 26 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 27 | I heard that that er er er parts of the rest of the U K property prices have risen over the last year , er but ours have actually not risen at all . |
| 28 | I suppose it would bore you to come and see my poor children , but they do need amusing , they are at that stage of convalescing when nothing is entertaining for very long and Mamma is certainly not entertaining at all , so a pretty thing like you would be a breath of fresh air . |
| 29 | Mr Stone 's film is certainly not dreaded by all . |