Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 This raises the question of whether casual workers should not after all be allowed to enjoy the coverage of employment protection legislation .
2 But I just wanted to say that I , we , should n't at all blame you if you were to start applying for jobs elsewhere now . ’
3 It may not in all cases be sufficient to advise a client that the action which he desires to take is not possible under the existing law ; circumstances may arise in which the proper answer is that if the law does not allow the action to be taken then the law itself should be changed .
4 Either it might see what could be done within the area which Kant had left to it ; or it might ask whether there might not after all be rather more to be said about the way in which genuine knowledge of God is made possible .
5 It is improper to ask whether relations can be " assimilated " to properties or whether all properties might not after all be explicable in terms of " qualitative properties " .
6 But you could not in all honesty , Wilson , expect us to make that our first consideration . ’
7 And then , on top of such bad news , came another message , a letter from Phoebe saying she could not after all repay Wilson 's kindness by standing in for her because she had this very day been ordered back to England and arrangements she had no part in had been made .
8 Fran could n't in all conscience let it happen to Luke Calder now if there was a chance that she could help prevent it .
9 Strangely , though , as a smile lit her face , she could n't in all honesty have said that her smile was totally on account of having secured an interview with that most elusive man !
10 They could n't after all , have stayed in the flat .
11 It was decided in Att. -Gen. for Northern Ireland v. Gallagher that the House need not in all circumstances confine itself to the certified question .
12 There need not in all cases be an actual breach of the contract .
13 The artist Benjamin Haydon was already £600 in debt when he heard that the Royal Academy would not after all be buying his painting Macbeth for 500 guineas .
14 By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh .
15 But the mood changed abruptly to unalloyed delight during President Menem 's speech when he took up Mr Naveiro 's challenge and made a promise that the book paper import duties would not after all be raised .
16 In February , however , it was reported that the group would not after all be allowed to become permanent residents because of doubts about their dissident credentials .
17 Italian officials stated in early August that approximately 10,000 Albanian refugees remaining in Italy since March would not after all be repatriated forcibly .
18 On the one hand , there were those who , once the prospect of redundancy had been raised , were reconciled to early retirement and to a greater or lesser extent relieved at leaving work , although they were attached to their employer and would not in all probability have left prematurely of their own volition .
19 ‘ Very well , ’ Leith replied , knowing that she would n't at all have liked the answer had she queried , what if it is n't convenient ?
20 If Colin 's if Colin 's up for it , it would n't at all .
21 Erm things getting , getting re relative to grow up and quite honestly I ca n't really get ma man imagine growing up I ca n't at all .
22 I ca n't after all that whistle .
23 The Alliance Report recognized that the STV " will not on all occasions result in exact proportionality between first-preference votes and seats " .
24 ‘ And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me , but walk contrary unto me , ’ he read out , ‘ then will I walk contrary unto you also in fury ; and I , even I , will chastise you seven times for your sins .
25 The Golden Horde will not after all be releasing that ‘ difficult ’ first album .
26 erm , other than clairify the erm , all solutions were made available to members of the panel as an appendix to the reports to the Policy Panel er , but that they wo n't to all members efficiency but were made available
27 And when a few moments later the telephone goes , and the gas man says that he wo n't after all be coming today to service the boiler , he gets his head bitten off !
28 ‘ Yes , so , sadly , I wo n't after all be here for the wedding … ’
29 In one of the biggest about turns in city politics , six thousand council house tenants have been told that their rents wo n't after all be going up by forty five per cent , and their homes wo n't be sold to a private landlord .
30 They are taking responsibility , either they agree with their government or they do not agree with their government , but to pretend that somehow we can not at all , some of the cuts that are made , that the f the other , does not convince us , I 'm sure it does not convince the people on our right and even less more convincing than the people who are listening to us today .
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