Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were it not for the tides , it is hard to see how salt marsh could exist at all . |
| 2 | Such considerations will apply at all periods , in prehistory as in documented history . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He said that the campaign would continue at all levels . |
| 6 | Even today , of course , whether the child will survive at all is still the overriding consideration for millions of mothers in the underdeveloped areas of the world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In common with other Intel coprocessors one device will run at all speeds up to 33MHz , the speed of Intel 's fastest 386DX chip . |
| 12 | Thus in considering whether there is a sufficient connection with this country the court will look at all the circumstances , including the residence and place of business of the defendant , his connection with the insolvent , the nature and purpose of the transaction being impugned , the nature and locality of the property involved , the circumstances in which the defendant became involved in the transaction or received a benefit from it or acquired the property in question , whether the defendant acted in good faith , and whether under any relevant foreign law the defendant acquired an unimpeachable title free from any claims even if the insolvent had been adjudged bankrupt or wound up locally . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Policyholder shall take all reasonable steps to safeguard from loss or damage and maintain in efficient condition any Caravan described in the Schedule and the Corporation shall have at all times free access to examine such Caravan . |
| 15 | The Policyholder shall take all reasonable steps to safeguard from loss or damage and maintain in efficient condition any motor car described in the Schedule and the Corporation shall have at all times free access to examine such motor car . |
| 16 | A tribunal will look at all the relevant facts before making up its mind . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Decisionless decisions can arise at all levels of the organisation . |
| 19 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 20 | It was n't the sort of thing my dad would wear at all . |
| 21 | In the view of many observers this has undermined the authority of the Fifth Republic , which some doubt will endure at all . |
| 22 | Sometimes a single class may dominate at all levels , economic , political and ideological . |
| 23 | 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 . |