Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [noun sg] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Tycoon Alan Sugar — whose Amstrad computer firm was a success of the booming 80s — slammed the Tories for wanting to slash inflation at all cost .
2 By attempting to sustain life at all costs , and by refusing to admit the fact that death is a good and proper part of life , doctors are in error .
3 You wo n't , as far as we 're having to buy coal at that price .
4 For example , by ensuring that the monopolist produces Q at the price corresponding to average cost at this output , the social cost of the dead-weight burden can be reduced from AEE ' ; to GHE ' ; .
5 Neither was there the level of ability among an elite of managers for decision making to take place at that level in the organisation and then to be passed down by functionaries , as in the French system .
6 Very few of us go through life without needing to borrow money at some time or other .
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