Example sentences of "be [to-vb] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desktop publishing , on the other hand , requires artistic skills and a large degree of understanding of the print and production processes if the results are to look at all professional . |
| 2 | It 's like it 's still night and I never been to sleep at all . |
| 3 | The final stage of entity analysis will be to look at all the events within the area and the operations that need to be performed following an event , and ensure that the model supports these events and operations . |
| 4 | The second naval object with an English minister should be to maintain at all times a powerful western squadron … |
| 5 | Electronic resources need to benefit from well-planned preservation campaigns , if they are to survive at all . |
| 6 | Without turn-out , tutus and pointe shoes the dancers ' bodies still have the same physical apparatus as before and if bodies are to dance at all they must submit to some form of discipline . |
| 7 | If he is to write at all he must , in the final irony , turn to language . |
| 8 | If it is to feed at all , it has to lower its head , so losing sight of its surroundings . |
| 9 | Its job is to look at all instruments laid before the Houses with a view to drawing the attention of the Houses to such instruments as are specified in its terms of reference . |
| 10 | The fiduciary relationship , if it is to exist at all , must accommodate itself to the terms of the contract so that it is consistent with , and conforms to , them . |
| 11 | To miss it out would make the treatment itself take far longer , if indeed it is to succeed at all . |
| 12 | It would have come , if it was to come at all , only if a well co-ordinated , centrally directed campaign of strikes , carried out by an immensely disciplined and united workforce , and backed by enough money to support the strikers for as long as necessary , could have been made to prevail against the resolute and more readily co-ordinated opposition of masters who stood to lose everything if the strikers won . |
| 13 | The revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the demand for industrial democracy through the agency of Industrial Co-operation , could have prompted such a comprehensive tide of sympathetic opinion as had carried parliamentary reform over the barriers of stubborn opposition . |
| 14 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 15 | The over-riding aim was to export at all costs . |
| 16 | On the other point about local education authorities My Lords , er it is quite depressing , I was er visiting a local education authority only two weeks ago where they had a five point educational strategy for the authority , one of those points was to oppose at all cost erm parents right to opt out . |