Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , for practical reasons , most are concentrating only on the borders to their own territories , and for cultural reasons ( say their customers ) some are still not serious about competing at all , and retain the old , nationalised take-it-or-leave-itism . |
| 2 | For if not then ultimately there is no meaning to survival ; for a life whose meaning stands and falls on whether one escapes or not … ultimately would not be worth living at all ’ |
| 3 | By ensuring adequate representation of sentencers from all levels of court , in addition to other professionals with experience of the penal system , he suggests that such a body would be capable of developing realistic guidance for sentencing at all levels that should at the same time be acceptable to sentencers themselves . |
| 4 | But there were Schonfeld supporters who came perilously close to arguing that , if Jewish children could not be saved for a particular sector of the faith , they were not worth saving at all . |
| 5 | Visitors to Chris Martin 's house in Cheltenham might be forgiven for shivering at all the slithering going on among the selection of snakes which share his semi . |
| 6 | Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable . |
| 7 | ‘ Hey , Phil , ’ he called , ‘ did you ever think of dying at all ? |
| 8 | As she headed through the basement corridors that would lead her to the stairs and the stage door and thence to the waiting Joe Lucas , Josie 's thoughts barely touched on the subject of dying at all . |
| 9 | When atrocious weather precludes any possibility of climbing at all , it 's worth descending a ‘ comfortable ’ distance down the terrace to witness the natural turmoil taking place in the inlet between Stennis and neighbouring Bosherston Head ; a simultaneously exhilarating and sobering sight . |
| 10 | If he said : " I wo n't buy until I 've seen written information on the stock " this frequently meant he had no intention of buying at all , and the astute dealer would pretend he was sending an Extel card ( a written fact sheet on the stock ) but in fact he would not bother . |
| 11 | the main point that I made to him was that after such a superb beginning where , where they actually state how much rubbish we produce , there 's absolutely no mention even though there 's space at the bottom there 's no mention of recycling at all . |
| 12 | ‘ So , now that you 're home , are you thinking of staying at all ? |
| 13 | She hesitated , sadly , desperately anxious to accept , absurdly delighted that he had asked her , that he had so coolly bothered to cross the room to ask her , and yet at the same time horrified by the thought of displaying herself , by the thought of dragging her hideous dress from its hole-in-the-corner obscurity , by the thought of dancing at all , for she did not know how to dance . |
| 14 | Most threatened animals still live in the wild where their chances of surviving at all depend on their habitat . |
| 15 | They slipped off so I would n't approach her , which I had no intention of doing at all . ’ |
| 16 | Gibbs and fullback Tony Clement were full of running at all times and , while B.C. led again 17–15 with another Graf penalty , Swansea were ultimate winners as outside-half Stephen Jones added a second winning penalty to his earlier conversion of Gibb 's score . |
| 17 | Er and this is exactly what we are doing , so I ca n't see the policy er of policing of changing at all . |
| 18 | This time , however , there was no question of fighting at all , but simply of saying ‘ Enough ! ’ ’ |
| 19 | This supposition has the form of a ‘ regulative hope ’ — both are adopted on the same basis that a card player bases his play on the hope of an improbable distribution of the cards if no other possible distribution gives him any chance of winning at all . |
| 20 | We believe languages should be a much more integral part of schooling at all levels . |
| 21 | ‘ I have no intention of retiring at all . |
| 22 | Are there any disasters you see in your books that might take place in this country that we 're not taking any notice of , in terms of planning at all ? |
| 23 | In fact , he suggests , their kind of advertising is not about selling at all . |
| 24 | Do you ever feel like changing at all ? |
| 25 | Two years ago few people thought he could cajole the island 's two separate tribes — sprung from Protestant planters on the one side and Catholic Gaels on the other — into meeting at all . |
| 26 | Graduates who have specialised in advanced work in English Language have pursued a wide variety of careers , including teaching at all levels at home and abroad ( where further vocational qualifications may be necessary ) , librarianship , lexicography , the Civil Service , finance and banking , industry and management , and computing . |
| 27 | Over the past twelve months it has been my great privilege to become more closely involved with those with disabilities , I have seen the enormous efforts being made to encourage participation at a very high competitive level as well as tremendous strides being made at many clubs to bring disabled people into sailing at all levels . |
| 28 | The most important marketing device in the industry has nothing to do with skiing at all . |
| 29 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 30 | Two : determine whether the well-done thing was worth doing at all . |