Example sentences of "be [verb] at all cost " in BNC.
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| 31 | The vivid markings and bright colours of these caterpillars ( above ) act as warning signals telling predators that the potential victims are unpalatable , to be avoided at all costs . |
| 32 | According to Andrew Boorde , the author of the first English book of domestic medicine ( his Dyetary ) lettuce was to be avoided at all costs by anyone who valued his or her sex life . |
| 33 | Clearly , I am focusing on the idea that it is the residues of bad experiences that lurk as bad objects in our psyche that cause us so much trouble because they have to be avoided at all costs and so rarely get modified by experience . |
| 34 | Such encounters , be they lawful or unlawful , in wedlock or out of it , were — in common with the plague — to be avoided at all costs . |
| 35 | A shoot-out was to be avoided at all costs , and though Weaver was certainly armed , the moment he was confronted with two heavy-duty thirty-eight calibres , the game would be up . |
| 36 | This would lead to conflict with Rome and this must be avoided at all costs . |
| 37 | EC 's foreign ministers , with Britain in the chair , told EC president Jacques Delors a disastrous world trade war must be avoided at all costs . |
| 38 | Given that such an emergency admission should be avoided at all costs , how can a social worker plan an admission so that it offers the person concerned a positive choice ? |
| 39 | A lot might seem to hang upon this question since the term is highly emotive — suffering is an unpleasant experience , to be avoided at all costs . |
| 40 | At Great Casterton I had suddenly discovered that this process held a hidden danger and that in the future this had to be avoided at all costs . |
| 41 | The final factor concerns the idea that ‘ being known ’ should be avoided at all costs . |
| 42 | This must be avoided at all costs . |
| 43 | If you remove the castle and the only place left for the Synodontis is under the heater , it may burn itself — something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 44 | Dotty was n't at all sure the poor woman should n't have been left in the telephone box until the ambulance arrived , rather than carried by George across the square in a fireman 's lift under an old blanket , but Rose had convinced her that a scandal must be avoided at all costs . |
| 45 | Anything near the Harrow Road , or the canal , or Kensal Green cemetery had to be avoided at all costs . |
| 46 | It was seen as something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 47 | This is to be avoided at all costs if the channel is to remain a mass audience broadcaster . |
| 48 | Retaliation by loyalist gunmen must be avoided at all costs . |
| 49 | ‘ A place to be avoided at all costs , ’ he agreed . |
| 50 | A report in New Cyclist magazine revealed yesterday that York sits proudly at the top of a 150-city cycle league , but Newcastle should be avoided at all costs . |
| 51 | Her misery blackened the evening and should be assuaged at all costs . |
| 52 | However tenuous it may have become , once a marriage is under threat it can suddenly turn into a territory which has to be defended at all costs , like the Falklands . |
| 53 | Tearing out a sheet from his notebook , de Castelnau scribbled down his historic order that Verdun must be defended at all costs on the Right Bank , and handed it to Pétain . |
| 54 | The squadron of cavalry was but a small contingent of a much larger military force despatched to Champagne by the Monis government : Épernay was to be protected at all costs and between twenty and forty thousand cavalry , dragoons and infantry poured into the town . |
| 55 | Radio Burkina said that delegates had agreed on the need to maintain " state capitalism " , but that this did not entail the rejection of private enterprise , which " should be supported at all costs " . |
| 56 | I sympathise with the temptation , but it must be resisted at all costs . |
| 57 | The people who moved the instruments each day to the studio had a vested interest in persuading us that the Philharmonie was no good ; people even said privately that the change must be resisted at all costs because the coffee was so much better at the church ! |
| 58 | For these people , work is essential and must be retained at all costs . |
| 59 | ‘ Lore'n orda ’ must be maintained at all costs , and the riot , if that was what it was , had been swiftly contained . |
| 60 | It was the combination of this aggression with his talent which had brought him so far , and yet while Vitor possessed a professional 's dedication to winning Simon had plainly identified his team-mate as a bitter rival who must be trounced at all costs . |