Example sentences of "[vb pp] to at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is nothing to stop the parties specifically preventing the expert from pursuing his own investigations and limiting his consideration of evidence to the material submitted by the parties ; this can be attended to at this stage , if it has not been already provided for in the expert clause : see 8.15.8 . |
| 4 | Fire Service S S A , which we 've talked to at some length already . |
| 5 | Fourthly , that the matter was not adverted to at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Programme variables where referred to at all are stated in gross terms . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At home Madame , if referred to at all , had always been the person who had been derided . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The tabloid report implied that this means contractual obligations would be clung to at all costs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |