Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 Programme variables where referred to at all are stated in gross terms .
2 At home Madame , if referred to at all , had always been the person who had been derided .
3 There is no need to hold that all human beings should always and only be approached using the interpretive action scheme , any more than the reverse claim makes sense if adhered to in all circumstances .
4 A former probation officer , she blames the way professionals are trained to see the criminal as the main concern , with justice for the victim — if thought about at all — regarded as an optional extra .
5 As signalled by at all , however , this use also suggests a negative bias on the part of the speaker against the existence of any real need to borrow money , and so does not belong in a separate category from the others at all : it is just as non-assertive as all the rest .
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