Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have strong fore-legs , though their back legs are hardly developed at all and are little more than buds . |
| 2 | ( AAT ) n are hardly cut at all . |
| 3 | In practice policy elites are aware that there are other social interests not represented in decision-making , and that the inequalities of existing interest group mobilization are hardly correlated at all with the underlying feelings of citizens . |
| 4 | If the mentalist position can be coherently presented at all , then , it seems , it is only in the context of an idealist ontology based on the assumption that reality as a whole is non-physical . |
| 5 | If Brief Encounter were to be critically favoured at all , it had to be rescued from the discredited label of Coward and conclusively assigned to the body of texts marked ‘ Lean ’ . |
| 6 | Life here , which was dingy enough with war conditions overlying the natural drabness of environment and narrowness of mind , was suddenly galvanised into alarm by the thought that half the population might not be decently married at all . |
| 7 | If the actions can not be independently observed at all though , this might force the optimal contract to contain some element based on general risk , in order to provide incentives to efficiency . |
| 8 | Instead , Scotland , in common with other small member states , would be fully represented at all community institutions and have direct access to the Court of Justice . |
| 9 | If faith is to be solidly grounded at all , it must rest on some more secure foundation than that . |
| 10 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |
| 11 | Indeed , at the end of 81 laps , they were scarcely worn at all . |
| 12 | Such schemes were generally directed at all employees , manual , white collar , and managerial , although the percentage of each section attending such courses is unclear . |
| 13 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 14 | Frederick thus presents the paradox of a ruler who was sincerely attracted by many of the ideas of the Enlightenment , who voiced these ideas and advertised his adherence to them throughout his life , and yet whose policies in practice were hardly affected at all by the new intellectual currents of the age . |
| 15 | American women , they learned , did not much care for murky colours but wanted bright yellows and apple greens , vibrant colours which were hardly used at all in Europe . |
| 16 | If it were ever mentioned at all , something else would turn up . |
| 17 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 18 | The only grass that 's well cut is where people cut it themselves outside their own house but , in particular , erm , th I would like to see the supervision of the contract and that we do n't cough up the money unless the job 's done properly because I think we 're paying for a job that 's not being either done at all , or when it is being done it 's not being done well . |
| 19 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 20 | But the sheep were never trained at all . |
| 21 | Many consumers did not even know of the charge until after the winter of 1948/9 when it was imposed ; because of cyclic meter reading , many received their winter bills only as the charge was lowered ; and some were never surcharged at all . |
| 22 | The failure to come to terms with this task casts light on , though it does not excuse , the hectic character of the final part of Braudel 's Méditerranée : even when connections are traced between conjonctures and the actions of individuals , they tend to leave the actions heavily under-determined — so much so , in some cases , that they are barely explained at all . |
| 23 | In the meantime it is sufficient to note that the position where the rules are barely enforced at all is far from satisfactory . |
| 24 | The answer seems to be that they are barely used at all . |
| 25 | The rule , Rule 15 ( Client Care ) , and the Law Society guide that interprets it , is intended to ensure that the client is properly informed at all times , as to who is dealing with the matter , as to the available complaints procedure and as to how the action is progressing . |
| 26 | Unless it 's properly supervised at all times . |
| 27 | However , zooplankton is sparsely distributed at all levels . |
| 28 | The more thoughtful among them point out that although many parts of the service may be over the heads of the kids , it is nevertheless directed at all worshippers and no part of the service ought to be segregated from another . |
| 29 | It is essential , therefore , that an experienced teacher of reading is directly involved at all stages of programming . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the man of course , is leading his married life and is hardly affected at all . |