Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , if the ribs can not be felt at all , the horse is too fat .
2 The starkest example would be unlimited life goods , where depreciation presumably would not be charged at all .
3 Alternatively , a private company need not be limited at all , and can trade as an unlimited company .
4 Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness .
5 erm I can not deny that erm they will not be received at all well by those that have to pay them .
6 1 was attracted by another that I had discussed on a visit to Europe : certain branded drugs would not be prescribed at all when entirely adequate substitute generic drugs existed .
7 He added that the Social Work Department could not be represented at such a meeting .
8 Secondly , arts teachers ' views would not be represented at educational management level .
9 The argument can not be stopped at this simple point , however .
10 The paradox here is that this variable is very difficult to access and would not be accessed at all if our field methods and analytic methods were inadequate ; yet , the variation has strong social meaning within the community .
11 Some information is registered and acted upon , other information may register but be stored and recalled later whilst other information may not be registered at all .
12 A great deal of care in both societies , however , can be seen to be effective , and a good deal more can not be evaluated at all .
13 In either case some addresses will be generated more than once , while others will not be generated at all .
14 Get a child to love a poem ; every word and phrase in it need not be understood at first .
15 Is there any reason why the same debate , or a debate on the same question , should not be conducted at more or less the same time in a great number of different places ?
16 Firstly , many innovations are school-wide in their application and can not be implemented at all unless a number of teachers , perhaps even the entire staff of a school , both agree to , and become committed to , their implementation .
17 Without a harbour , the islands would probably not be inhabited at all , as the land area is only about 250 hectares .
18 They may feel that certain laws should not be made at all
19 He can not be reached at this moment , and the question can not be shelved .
20 The president acknowledged that ground convoys are the best way to deliver aid , but said the airdrops were ‘ a temporary measure , designed to address the immediate needs of isolated areas that can not be reached at this time by ground . ’
21 But without wealth they can not be tackled at all .
22 The more fundamental point about exchange rates is that they should not be maintained at artificial levels as is certainly the case at present , when sterling has to be supported by 14 per cent interest rates .
23 His final reflection was that ‘ such a picture can not be defined at all until we find a way of describing whatever it is that makes first-rate entertainment what it is ’ .
24 The effects of the inversion decreases southeastwards and can not be seen at all in the south of Quadrant 53 .
25 The eating disorders and other forms of addictive disease may not be seen at all except in their extreme forms .
26 Their reports could be commented on by the head of mission ; but they might well not be seen at all by the imperial chancellor , who had formal responsibility for the conduct of German foreign policy .
27 Once your policy has been issued , we guarantee that your monthly premium will not be increased at any time , even after you receive your payout .
28 The degree and nature of any interaction between the proposal and existing research programmes would depend totally on the needs of each individual submission made to us by visiting researchers , and can not be foreseen at this stage .
29 In this new state , the rule for unstack can not be applied at all , but the rule for stack has six instances : x is any one of the three blocks ; y is any block other than x .
30 Compartmentation of the interior means that the building is experienced in a new way — details which were once distant ( and which may have been executed in the knowledge that they would not be viewed at close hand ) are seen in ‘ close-up ’ for the first time and in relation to much smaller and more intimate spaces ( Plate 20 ) .
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