Example sentences of "not be [vb pp] at all " 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 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 In either case some addresses will be generated more than once , while others will not be generated at all .
11 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 .
12 Without a harbour , the islands would probably not be inhabited at all , as the land area is only about 250 hectares .
13 They may feel that certain laws should not be made at all
14 But without wealth they can not be tackled at all .
15 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 ’ .
16 The effects of the inversion decreases southeastwards and can not be seen at all in the south of Quadrant 53 .
17 The eating disorders and other forms of addictive disease may not be seen at all except in their extreme forms .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Some words can not be pronounced at all until their meaning has been recognised .
21 The force of their own gravity is so great that their collapse can not be halted at all .
22 Complex proteins , such as dairy , meat and grains are the major triggers of allergies and should not be introduced at all before six months .
23 At first we considered the design of a search system in which strong stems would not be introduced at all unless weak-stem searching found little or nothing .
24 Thus , in the Irish Constitution , the framers were anxious that amendment should be a deliberate process , that the rights of citizens should be safeguarded , and that certain types of laws should not be passed at all , and therefore they made the Constitution supreme and imposed restrictions upon the legislature to achieve these ends .
25 Having looked at a number of hypothetical fossil records varying in degree of completeness , they state that ‘ Sometimes fossils can be used in phytogenetic reconstruction without reference to stratigraphy : sometimes they can be used in combination with stratigraphy : sometimes they can not be used at all ; and sometimes phylogeny is in principle not reconstructible . ’
26 Of course some pound notes may be used more frequently than others , and some may not be used at all , but the velocity of circulation measures the average number of times a unit of currency is used .
27 Fitzgerald herself does not go so far as to suggest that they should not be used at all .
28 Such expressions , he argued , can not perform a genuinely naming function , and , ideally , should not be used at all .
29 For example , there are species which can not be bred at all .
30 This may mean that the transfer of some types of information may stop part way through or not be started at all .
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