Example sentences of "to at [det] " in BNC.

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1 If they are listened to at all , it will probably be in the bath , on a car stereo , or in some other environment where the music is competing for the listener 's attention .
2 And when I saw all of them after such a long time I did n't like to go back again , really I did n't want to at all .
3 The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day .
4 ‘ I just replied : ‘ it 's easy ’ but I do n't know what she was referring to at all . ’
5 They were n't hurt or threatened verbally — in fact , apart from the message she was given they were n't spoken to at all .
6 Programme variables where referred to at all are stated in gross terms .
7 As specified proceedings under section 41 of the Act the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem — a player not referred to at all in the article .
8 I did n't want to at all , but nothing would make her change her mind .
9 At home Madame , if referred to at all , had always been the person who had been derided .
10 With set faces , straining muscles , blistered heels , pedometers swinging from trouser belts , pockets bulging with maps and Kendal mint cake , and strict time schedules which must be kept to at all costs , they force themselves on , come gale , come deluge , come dehydrating heat wave .
11 Fourthly , that the matter was not adverted to at all .
12 A Tory economic strategy which rests on Sunday shopping , cable television and fun parks rests on people behaving in ways in which they have 110 need to at all .
13 The difficulty is that once violence is resorted to at all , it tends to become part of an escalating spiral ; violence begets violence , and one object of the law is to prevent the resort to violence .
14 In many geomorphological histories there has been a propensity to ignore the most recent stages or time periods so that the Quaternary was often treated in less detail and the Holocene or last 10,000 years seldom referred to at all .
15 Er and also it 's not always easy , I mean there 's all this youth work business and sort of detached youth work and so on in erm er you know in the very underprivileged areas , but actually I , I think people say that the erm er the disaffected teenagers are actually some of the most difficult people to relate to at all .
16 In each case linguistic play will be restricted by reference to something the language may not refer to at all .
17 Although I have read only a summary of the one-day debate and not the full text of all the speeches , I believe that my impression is correct that the British hesitation over the two key areas was hardly referred to at all .
18 The tabloid report implied that this means contractual obligations would be clung to at all costs .
19 because I do n't speak to at all now and that ca n't be right and the reason I do n't is because I know the response I 'm gon na get , blank look
20 ‘ I 'm either very naive or there is nothing to take exception to at all . ’
21 Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time .
22 I had been counting on his saying no to at least one of those , so that I could issue a hollow guffaw and depart , shaking my head ruefully ; but he did not , and I had no choice but to slink away or sign in .
23 of the directors are such persons ( hereinafter called ‘ a qualified company ’ ) ; and ( b ) must be beneficially owned as to at least 75 per cent .
24 Under section 14(2) , a fishing vessel is to be regarded as being British-owned if the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies and the vessel is beneficially owned wholly by a qualified company or companies or , as to at least 75 per cent. , by one or more qualified persons .
25 of the directors are such persons ( hereinafter called ‘ a qualified company ’ ) ; and ( b ) must be beneficially owned as to at least 75 per cent .
26 Such a situation could only come about if researchers are encouraged to at least prepare for publication , if not to actually publish , papers on their research whilst they are still in the environs of the university .
27 Such a situation could only come about if researchers are encouraged to at least prepare for publication , if not to actually publish , papers on their research whilst they are still in the environs of the university .
28 Yes , I 'm not sure that I I 'm going to at some stage .
29 Rather , in most ordinary kinds of talk these principles are oriented to , such that when talk does not proceed according to their specifications , hearers assume that , contrary to appearances , the principles are nevertheless being adhered to at some deeper level .
30 Fire Service S S A , which we 've talked to at some length already .
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