Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spending departments were to carry out reviews of programmes by questioning existing commitments and to ask whether they should exist at all and not only how they should be carried out ( see Pliatzky , 1982 , p. 99 ) . |
| 2 | In this chapter I shall argue that the no boundary condition for the universe , together with the weak anthropic principle , can explain why all three arrows point in the same direction — and moreover , why a well-defined arrow of time should exist at all . |
| 3 | They have basic rights which you should respect at all times . |
| 4 | I feel we should look at all towns and villages that have a gas supply , and create a detailed register of estates and streets that do not have gas pipes running through them . |
| 5 | The client must have confidence in the conveyancer and the conveyancer must maintain that confidence by undertaking each step in each transaction competently and carefully , and above all , must understand at all times the importance of communicating regularly and effectively with a client . |
| 6 | Staff at the Home Office who give fair and full interviews to applicants must look at all matters which reflect on the claim being made and on the credibility of the individual . |
| 7 | More fundamentally , no one knows why sunspots should occur at all — or perhaps these days we should call them ‘ starspots ’ , since similar areas of ( comparatively ) low energy emission have now been detected on the faces of other stars . |
| 8 | It all seemed too important for that : a warning of what was inside us all as human beings and of what we must avoid at all costs . |
| 9 | Something that we must avoid at all costs . ’ |
| 10 | The atmosphere in his office seemed to be closing in on her in an intimacy which she must avoid at all costs . |
| 11 | In a very important class of case , namely , actions upon cheques and other bills of exchange , the rule does not apply and we can see no reason why it should apply at all . |
| 12 | When there 's a school teacher down there , it should happen at all break times and meal times , erm er |
| 13 | The denial of the use of that gift to evaluate and perpetuate the nature of the ‘ god ’ of the religion , and therefore its very foundation , is something which humanity must resist at all costs . |
| 14 | The purchaser should reject at all costs any attempt by the vendor to disclose any other documents which are referred to in the documents presented with the disclosure letter . |
| 15 | ‘ Because some individuals might benefit more than others and the rule for public works is that all must benefit indifferently , or none may benefit at all . |
| 16 | If the taxman thinks you 've been cheating , he 'll look at all your affairs with extra care and may check back on tax returns for previous years . |
| 17 | Let's look at all the ducks . |
| 18 | You would wonder how they could eat at all after the amount of time they spent talking about food . ’ |
| 19 | That these tensions could arise at all was due to the fact that historically , Parliaments were originally called as a matter of discretion by the monarch . |
| 20 | In the stretched moments when he could think at all , Mouse knew , helplessly , that he was going mad . |
| 21 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 22 | Were it not for the tides , it is hard to see how salt marsh could exist at all . |
| 23 | ‘ Here will be fine , ’ she said huskily , relieved she could speak at all . |
| 24 | ‘ That was very good of you , ’ whispered Isabel , rather surprised that she could speak at all . |
| 25 | Marcelle thought them dreadful , but Marcelle was French , and even if she was attired soberly , she would still think no-one outside France could dress at all . |
| 26 | Er i it was alright if the man took precautions but if the woman did n't take precautions there was er I mean the man did n't , there was nothing the woman could do at all about it . |
| 27 | I could look at all these things and say that 's just not the right way to do it . |
| 28 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
| 29 | Or whether she could run at all ? |
| 30 | On the other hand he could work at all hours of the day and night — much to the dismay of his advisers and household servants who would have preferred a more predictable routine . |