Example sentences of "[pron] to be [vb pp] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rigidity of approach is something to be avoided at all costs — there is no point in being able to do a ‘ party piece ’ one way and be unable to take in new direction on the same material . |
| 2 | The new actor is generally operating in top gear and if this momentum is stopped it can be very damaging to the morale and can result in an actor 's technical skills going rusty — something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 3 | If you remove the castle and the only place left for the Synodontis is under the heater , it may burn itself — something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 4 | It was seen as something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 5 | Quite apart from the problems of decreased fertility and the dangers of ectopic pregnancy , the chronic ill-health and malaise which often follow infection of the tubes make this complication one to be avoided at all costs . |
| 6 | After a while , there was nothing to be seen at all . |
| 7 | Now , of course , there was nothing to be heard at all , nothing to be seen but the sudden , wheeling pallor of one more set of headlights taking the curve in the Silcaster road , far beyond Aurae Phiala . |
| 8 | Most had to be ploughed flat every spring to enable them to be used at all . |
| 9 | For the sake of safety and obedience to orders , ought they to be employed at all ? |
| 10 | But had the statement been plainly defamatory of Crozier , the court would have ordered the settlement to be postponed until after his trial , and may not have allowed it to be made at all under the cloak of absolute privilege . |
| 11 | They may well limit the uses to which property may be put and hence affect its value , even to the point where owners may prefer not to allow it to be used at all ; but they do not alter the fact that ownership confers the licence to use , or not to use . |
| 12 | Mick 's lay at the end of a row of long , low wooden buildings with a careful air : there were no guards or electric fences or anyone to be seen at all , but you got the feeling it would be inadvisable to appear shifty in any way as you traversed the path . |