Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be [vb pp] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point of this distinction between the social ( the particular ) and the artistic ( the general ) is precisely to deny there is any ‘ real ’ distinction to be made at all . |
| 2 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
| 3 | Gardeners occasionally regard shade as an evil to be avoided at all costs . |
| 4 | The patient 's death is not an evil to be avoided at all costs , but is an inevitable consequence of his condition . |
| 5 | The matching process had to be relaxed considerably , both by allowing numerous competing phonetic labels , and by changing the lexical access procedure , in order for the correct word to be output at all ( Klovstad 1976 ) . |
| 6 | Of course , it is always possible to say that people are suffering from false consciousness ( women , for example , are continually suffering from the illusion that they are not being exploited in the home ) but that is surely too patronising a view to be taken at all seriously . |