Example sentences of "taken at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The body may also use its own lean tissue ( muscle ) as fuel when food intake is very low ( such as when a person is on a crash diet ) or when no food is taken at all . |
| 2 | There is thus a proliferation of public examinations of a practical kind , any of which may be taken at the new schools , of which the GCSE seems to be only one , if it is to be taken at all . |
| 3 | Indeed , if the message of its architecture is to be taken at all at face value , it was a city in which the factions did not follow conventional lines at all . |
| 4 | The photograph was taken on a favourable day or it could not have been taken at all . |
| 5 | In this instance the case was dismissed but the fact that such action was taken at all was profoundly significant . |
| 6 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 7 | To gain these advantages , a fresh look will need to be taken at all our storage risks to ensure that the system does give the required performance . |
| 8 | Of course , it is always possible to say that people are suffering from false consciousness ( women , for example , are continually suffering from the illusion that they are not being exploited in the home ) but that is surely too patronising a view to be taken at all seriously . |
| 9 | If the present deliberation of the UK 's Follett Committee are to be taken at all seriously , the research and teaching library as we now know it will change fundamentally over the next ten years . |
| 10 | They hope that if they ignore the , the behaviour it will stop or they do n't believe their complaint will be taken seriously or that any action will be taken at all . |