Example sentences of "[vb infin] at all [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 2 | Mainstream work did not refer at all to the potential role of minority languages in the curriculum , nor to the major debates that have taken place in this area . |
| 3 | that does n't matter at all to the story mention it really . |
| 4 | The fact that Hall 6 is a bare cavern with iron girders did n't matter at all by the time we had finished . |
| 5 | Samuel does not feature at all in the story with which we are concerned , nor in its immediate sequels . |
| 6 | The whole character of the game has been changed by a goal which er suddenly has brought to life in a way which we did n't see at all for the first half . |
| 7 | It does n't work at all at the moment . |
| 8 | Well , he could understand that , but he still thought it was a wasteful way of keeping the lower ranks occupied , and it did n't square at all with the continual excuses the seneschal and his minions kept making about being under-staffed . |
| 9 | Although the miserable cold was likely to keep her awake all night — if one could sleep at all in the open air , with a raging storm about one and the fear all the time that someone might find one camped out like a vagrant ! |
| 10 | It did not accord at all with the normal context of school life . |
| 11 | Only then did party members begin to identify with one or other wing — and it was a minority of non-party workers who could differentiate at all between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks . |
| 12 | Artai was incapable of sitting still for long , and only his abnormal concern with his appearance made him submit at all to the restrictive nature of the ministrations of the Y'frike slaves . |
| 13 | The teacher might play an alien who could not communicate at all with the crew members ( children ) and wanted to learn their language . |
| 14 | She simply could n't keep house — not that that mattered so much — but she could n't cope at all with the children . |
| 15 | And it is easy enough to answer the question : ‘ Why bother at all with the B arrangement , which is wasteful of paper , since three of the four versos are left blank ? ’ |
| 16 | Clwyd charges only £5 a week and other counties do not charge at all for the day centres . |
| 17 | Indeed , we often think that it does not figure at all on the Government 's agenda . |
| 18 | yeah , it means he 's getting less hours , so he 'll be getting less money which we do n't want at all at the moment |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She did not think at all of the consequences , only of the act itself . |
| 21 | It is a ‘ right ’ to the extent that , at the trial , the prosecution may not comment at all on the accused 's failure to answer questions and the judge may refer to it , but not adversely : the point is that in no circumstances should silence be used against an accused person . |
| 22 | You would wonder how they could eat at all after the amount of time they spent talking about food . ’ |
| 23 | In his Dictionary ( 1697 ) , Bayle points out that although the ‘ new philosophers ’ do not set out to be sceptics , they go even further in extending sceptical arguments to the conclusion that smells , colours , and tastes , ‘ are perceptions of our soul and that they do not exist at all in the objects of our senses ’ . |
| 24 | The penis did not exist at all in the British sex film because it was considered rude . ’ |
| 25 | Did your , did your mother talk at all about the er the nineteen twenty-six Great Strike ? |
| 26 | 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 . |