Example sentences of "not [verb] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays .
2 The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom .
3 The most successful perhaps were those acquired as teacher training colleges , such as Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse which , without such use , might not have survived at all .
4 It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all .
5 The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth .
6 Had he been an ordinary shop assistant it would not have done at all .
7 Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level .
8 Animals such as mussels would not be spread so liberally around the world — indeed they could not have evolved at all — unless they had a phase as mobile plankton .
9 During Key Biscayne , Jennifer was asked if she agreed with Monica Seles ' current belief that if she had known then , what she knows now , what life on the tennis circuit would be like , she would not have started at such an early age .
10 Or you may not have thought at all .
11 When times were good , men married earlier and some were able to marry who otherwise could not have married at all — and vice versa .
12 Proposals to replace our dry sow accommodation could not have come at worse time , with pig prices falling through the floor , and I suppose some would say that we are reacting plenty soon enough .
13 ‘ We should not have come at all . ’
14 ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’
15 ‘ The only way of dealing with that sort of thing is not to get involved at all .
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