Example sentences of "[noun] could [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |