Example sentences of "[vb -s] at all " in BNC.
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1 | He needs at all rimes to be in full possession of his faculties , or that extra , unpredictable poetic thrust would never declare itself — that heart-lifting boost that rockets mere words into the outer spaces of true poetry . |
2 | And the easiest way to ensure that — a readiness to criticise the Government at each and every turn — is the one temptation he has at all costs to resist . |
3 | It 's also knowing and being interested in the history of things , which I do n't think Maggie has at all . |
4 | It has at all times been an act of faith and a declaration of belief , the faith and the belief that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is the pursuit of knowledge of all kinds for its own sake and the communication of that talent and delight to their successors . |
5 | Durability has at all times been a main attribute of the materials held in highest regard and it is precisely the most durable things that have most chance of surviving . |
6 | Yet the transmission of precious substances in the form of jewellery or other objects of display has at all times and most notably during the last five millennia served the same purpose the world over , that of signalling and enhancing status . |
7 | Title to the property is and has at all material times been registered at H.M. |
8 | Upjohn has at all times contended that Halcion is safe and effective and that any errors in the presentation of its material to the Licensing Authority were unintended , and it is suing the BBC for libel . |
9 | The most obvious incentive towards entertainment was ‘ the fact that the industry stands at all times in the presence of a high court with unlimited jurisdiction — the people before the box office ’ and from that court ‘ there is no appeal ’ . |
10 | The Technical Committee looks at all aspects of brewing and serving beer . |
11 | The report , which looks at all 29 English polytechnics , said there is a need for substantial investment in new capital equipment in most . |
12 | Other treatments adopt an over-simple solution to the problem , always preferring one source to another ; thus the algorithm of Hobbs ( 1976 ) looks at all intrasentential candidates before earlier sentences are considered at all , while Brennan , Friedman & Pollard ( 1987 ) prefer all candidates from the most recent sentence to ones from the current sentence . |
13 | If the grounds of referral are accepted by both parents and child at the Hearing , the Panel looks at all the information that has been provided for them . |
14 | She says she feels neglected when she looks at all the visitors Mum gets . |
15 | I do n't think he looks at all well . ’ |
16 | Transitional needs can only be met by assessment which both avoids categorisation and looks at all the future needs of the individual . |
17 | To address this problem CACI 's gravity model looks at all the centres around each sector . |
18 | We have a vetting panel which looks at all the vacancies that arise within the City Council , and decides whether it really is necessary to fill the job , or whether we can actually erm reorganize things and deliver the service with fewer people , so we are very conscious of the need to make sure that |
19 | and conscience is either killed , or , if it lives at all , lives but to give rebellion its fascination , and disobedience its charm . |
20 | Mr. Burke submits that if judicial review lies at all , then it is not possible to pick and choose between Lord Diplock 's three categories : it must lie on all three grounds or not at all . |
21 | But , their leader tells David Wastell , Political Editor , although success seems so close , this is not really what he wants at all |
22 | None of this matters at all provided the ferrets work efficiently . |
23 | There are situations , and there are types of relationships , in which one of these purposes becomes dominant , and the other hardly matters at all . |
24 | And they espouse causes and strike attitudes , and then after a while when they get old they think what-the-hell , and they start doing what they like and nothing matters at all . |
25 | In any other situation the worst thing that can occur is that nothing happens at all . |
26 | The data we collected leads inescapably to the conclusion that for most of the time nothing happens at all — this seems to be particularly the case in residential settings ( ibid. , p. 58 ) . |
27 | Apart from that , as they say , nothing happens at all . |
28 | The disappointing turnout of visitors to London 's Solutions for Workstations Show earlier this month has led to redundancies at show organiser EMAP Exhibitions , including show manager , John Howe : Sun Microsystems Inc has already declined a space at next year 's event — if it happens at all . |
29 | A language-centred description typically suggests that speech-sounds are objects that can actually change ( [ a ] can ‘ become ’ [ o ] , and so forth ) , when this is not what happens at all . |
30 | In this sense , the English-speaking world can be divided into two broad speech-communities : one in which [ h ] -dropping is widespread and has social significance , and one in which it is so rare ( if it happens at all ) that it is socially irrelevant . |