Example sentences of "be not [verb] [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 I am not flattered at all by the fact that I 'm the only one who has been a published novelist writing from inside South Africa .
2 It does n't make sense , does it ? … this way we are not represented at all .
3 However , although epileptiform tracings can support a diagnosis , they are not detected in all epileptic patients .
4 A combination of factors — including cost and disruption to office life , together with the recession and an inability to provide the right balance of work experience — means that either smaller firms are not training at all or they are opting to train certified accountants and accounting technicians .
5 Hence , although the connections are not automatic and are not embraced by all who call themselves idealists , there is an affinity between Idealists , idealists and an interpretative approach , just as there is between Realists , realists and a scientific one .
6 And as er Mr has pointed out , er some parts of the district are not affected at all by this issue , other areas have already been worked out .
7 Basically there is everything to say , for most roads are not understood at all , at least in their wider context .
8 Reception under conditions of distraction is taken to its extreme in television , which is half watched in the course of pursuing other activities and in which very often , especially among children , entire programmes are not viewed at all ; instead , fingers rarely leave the remote control device as there is a constant change of channels ( Ellis 1982 , p. 137 ) .
9 Moreover , evidence from recent research by Hammersley and Scarth suggests that patterns of whole-class teacher-pupil talk do not differ significantly between courses that are assessed by terminal examinations , ones that are continuously assessed , and ones that are not assessed at all — even when these differently assessed courses are taught by the same teacher and within the same subject .
10 The teams are shown as though turning into three-quarter view , the charioteer appearing behind them , and the chariots are not carved at all but finished in paint on the background in bold foreshortening .
11 The modern ‘ Mansion House to Broad Street ’ trains of the L & NW are not painted at all .
12 Of the correct words 20% are not hypothesized at all . ’
13 ‘ Such talents and indomitable spirit are not given to all of us .
14 Give Way signs are not placed at all roundabouts , but the point of entry is marked by a single broken white line across the road to indicate the give way rule .
15 If you do n't feel the muscles tense , then you are not stretching at all .
16 Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been .
17 By surveying the whole subject literature at once , it ensures that the ‘ best ’ and most appropriate titles are purchased in large numbers ( and that undeserving titles are not purchased at all ) .
18 Leys are not found in all parts of Britain any more than are the remains of other prehistoric features .
19 They are not suited at all to a general tropical community tank .
20 In fact , there is little doubt that a great many of the books and journals purchased by universities are not used at all .
21 Some of the holes are not used at all .
22 Needless to say , his views are not shared by all observers of the policy-making process and , given the strong tradition of secrecy in Britain , obtaining evidence one way or the other is difficult .
23 Many today are not encouraged at all in the development of imagination .
24 Often there is no stalking on Sunday ; vast sheep areas are not stalked at all , and there are huge areas of lower hills where stalking does not occur .
25 For the approaching wave in region II which propagates along the null line , , they have shown that v -independent perturbations are not permitted to all orders , while all the v -dependent perturbations exhibit strong divergences along the ‘ fold ’ singularity .
26 they 're not affected at all .
27 There 's the quiff from Peter , which is pointing out that the letter of confirmation that we reference to because it was a repeat , so reasonably enough they 're not going through all the assumptions , and he also is saying that the er , letters of confirmation that is a repeat of the previous job .
28 You 're not concentrating at all Paul are you ?
29 ‘ Oh no , ’ said Jane , ‘ I 'm not connected at all . ’
30 ‘ I 'm not thinking at all — not for the minute , ’ replied Morse loftily .
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