Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] at [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 2 | It should also be understood that black sportsmen work sedulously at perpetuating their popular image of being relaxed at all times . |
| 3 | Impeccable etiquette is required from everyone ; discipline and good manners , have to be observed at all times . |
| 4 | The necessary appearance of friendship had to be maintained at all times , and patronage continued to flow in the direction of the town of Perth from which the unfortunate Mr. Robinson came . |
| 5 | ‘ But I can say this — the long-term interests of the club have to be served at all times . |
| 6 | Twelve able miners or pickmen , at least , were to be employed at all times ( Leathart had recommended 30 or 40 or the lease to become void ) . |
| 7 | The recent work by McAuslan and others ( supra ) in respect of the functioning of the Windscale Inquiry casts further doubt on the fairness of our current practice of leaving it solely to the legislature to determine the form and procedure to be adopted at such inquiries . |
| 8 | I pretended to be looking at some papers when the door opened and Grace Hinkle ushered in a sophisticated-looking female of about twenty-eight . |
| 9 | On the other hand the counsellor may be assisted by many physical signs which suggest that alcohol is a problem , such as finding lots of empty bottles around , or when an older person is found to be drinking at all times of the day , often alone and not as part of a social occasion . |
| 10 | It 's so important to be seen at these things and — I know it sounds very philistine — to show people that you have money . |
| 11 | Please tell all your classes about the forthcoming course and arrange for a ‘ commercial ’ to be given at all rallies , lecture dems , etc . |
| 12 | Most charges of seditious words occurred during times of Jacobite scares and tended to be levied at those groups suspected of Jacobite sympathy : Roman Catholics , the Irish , Nonjurors , and the high-flying clergy and gentry . |
| 13 | The argument developed in this chapter is that insider dealing is undesirable and ought to be regulated at all levels ; that the prohibition of the practice has a rational basis ; and that many of the arguments advanced by those who favour unfettered insider dealing are seriously flawed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Consultation covers the way in which national programmes are to be introduced at these levels , and matters such as the efficiency of working arrangements , closure plans , staffing arrangements and relations with the public . |
| 17 | The need for trade-offs should be recognized clearly , so as to avoid the implicit assumption that dignity is to be pursued at all costs . [ … ] |
| 18 | St John the Baptist had to be preserved at all costs . |
| 19 | ICI , evidently , was not just a lacklustre chemicals conglomerate , but an industrial symbol , to be preserved at all costs as evidence of Britain 's continuing economic virility . |
| 20 | Rigidity of approach is something to be avoided at all costs — there is no point in being able to do a ‘ party piece ’ one way and be unable to take in new direction on the same material . |
| 21 | The new actor is generally operating in top gear and if this momentum is stopped it can be very damaging to the morale and can result in an actor 's technical skills going rusty — something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 22 | Gardeners occasionally regard shade as an evil to be avoided at all costs . |
| 23 | The ‘ good loser syndrome ’ has to be avoided at all costs . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , to be avoided at all costs is turning each day into a ‘ patchwork quilt ’ of conflicting perfumes . |
| 25 | The middle-aged mother , however , who has dependants , a job , a mortgage and a car — all the trappings of the standard nuclear family , but without the visible support of the person normally responsible for such things — is generally treated like a rabid dog , something acknowledged as being in the neighbourhood but to be avoided at all costs . |
| 26 | As a result , there is a continued shortage of residential care facilities for the full-time residence of mentally handicapped people which is perpetuating the need for mental handicap hospitals to house them , even though it is recognised by all parties that this is to be avoided at all costs . |
| 27 | Quite apart from the problems of decreased fertility and the dangers of ectopic pregnancy , the chronic ill-health and malaise which often follow infection of the tubes make this complication one to be avoided at all costs . |
| 28 | The patient 's death is not an evil to be avoided at all costs , but is an inevitable consequence of his condition . |
| 29 | To be avoided at all costs . ’ |
| 30 | Gusty winds are to be avoided at all costs . |