Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb infin] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means allowing participants to discuss particular issues between themselves while the researcher listens in but does not contribute at all : they almost interview themselves while the interviewer eavesdrops . |
| 2 | The difficulty is magnified when the sovereign is conceived as addressing ‘ the Commonwealth ’ comprising some countries which she rules on the advice of the respective ministers and other countries over which she does not reign at all . |
| 3 | My body as it is for me does not appear at all . |
| 4 | As pointed out by the report of the Law Commissions , this requirement causes problems whenever property either does not pass at all , or passes independently of the transfer of the bill of lading , or where the transfer of the bill is not causative of the passing of property . |
| 5 | This may seem irrelevant to Hamlet taking revenge ; but this scene ( Act IV , Scene V ) shows the contrast between Hamlet , who thinks deeply about actions and their consequences ; and Laertes , the man of action , who does not think at all about the consequences of what he does , being driven by his heart rather than his head . |
| 6 | The argument does not depend at all on demand growth : it rests on the view that to invest in Sizewell to replace old , but not necessarily worn out , plant will actually cheapen the provision of the same amount of electricity . |
| 7 | But of course it is sometimes not possible , because historical research demonstrates conclusively that the kind of standardised written language which can be used to represent ethnicity or nationality is a rather late historic construction — mostly of the 19th century or even later — and in any case quite often it does not exist at all , as between Serbs and Croats . |
| 8 | The other and sometimes more difficult problem arises when the other firm does not exist at all , someone having , quite simply , forged a letterhead . |
| 9 | She suggests that the educational infrastructure does not exist at all in our present system but could be provided . |
| 10 | While it would be foolish to suggest that a comparable problem does not exist at all in Britain , it is important to recognize that ours is a more simple system in which individual agencies have more clearly defined powers and more definite boundaries to their responsibilities and sphere of influence . |
| 11 | I hope this helps you to see that it does not matter at all whether that regression to his past life was factual or whether Barry 's subconscious had caused him to invent the whole thing in his imagination . |
| 12 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |
| 13 | Cross-competition experiments using a 50-fold molar excess of the oligonucleotides A , B , C and D revealed that A , B and C compete very well with the ICP4 and Ad2 sequences while the consensus octamer sequence of oligonucleotide D does not compete at all ( Fig. 4C , lanes 1–10 ) . |
| 14 | If it does not vary at all , increase the volume a little . |
| 15 | She does not feed at all . |
| 16 | The [ e ] variant is exclusively a casual style variant , which does not occur at all in more formal styles and is unobtainable in word-list elicitations . |
| 17 | The English th is alveolar , and the nearest sound in Tamil is dental , and the fricative [ 0 ] does not occur at all in Tamil . |
| 18 | As one would expect , the Reynolds number range depends on the length/diameter ratio of the pipe ( and periodic transition does not occur at all when this ratio is less than about 60 ) . |
| 19 | It adjoins Vela and Pyxis , and is always very low as seen from Britain ; part of it does not rise at all . |
| 20 | Its declination is 46 degrees north , so that it is circumpolar from Britain ; it can be seen from most inhabited countries , though it is always very low from New Zealand and does not rise at all from the latitude of Invercargill . |
| 21 | It is always very low from England , and Eta does not rise at all . |
| 22 | BLDSC does not deal at all with sets of orchestral scores , non-book materials , fiction , ‘ low level ’ English language monographs and basic texts , playsets and collections of material for ethnic minorities . |
| 23 | This remarkable condottiere — the word is pure Italian and does not translate at all well ; it describes a mercenary , but perhaps ‘ soldier of fortune ’ is more polite and catches the flavour better — not only managed to hold on to his head , but to great booty as well . |
| 24 | Indeed , we often think that it does not figure at all on the Government 's agenda . |
| 25 | The main reason for this was , of course , the dominance of the model — a model in which the real-wage rate does not figure at all — in the teaching of macroeconomics . |
| 26 | ‘ But the ‘ carrot and stick ’ theory does not work at all once man has reached an adequate subsistence level and is motivated by higher needs … ‘ |
| 27 | After installation , if the monitor does not work at all , check that the card is firmly pushed into its slot . |
| 28 | While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted . |
| 29 | Within this framework , the feat of believing that someone will come the day after tomorrow does not seem at all out of the way . |
| 30 | When I look upon the wall of my room , the wall does not act at all , nor is capable of acting ; the perceiving is an act or operation in me . |