Example sentences of "[prep] all costs be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange with Aunt Louise in the house , she and I alone together , our relationship a delicate bubble which must at all costs be kept floating intact . |
| 2 | And if there had been a degree of sympathy with the other defeated peoples — a doubtful claim , it has to be said , particularly with regard to the Poles — in this case ‘ the entire population took the view that England should at all costs be destroyed ’ . |
| 3 | It would seem that these moves , the deification of Jesus Christ , and the introduction of the Holy Ghost , were the outcome of the obstinate intention to apply to the new religion the utterly unalterable condition that the ancient ‘ god ’ of the original scriptures must , at all costs be retained . |
| 4 | Yet the effect of the violence is as much exhilarating as horrifying … if one 's moral position is the tenable one that violence is intrinsically wrong and must at all costs be held in check , then there is no doubt that Straw Dogs is an immoral film . |
| 5 | The unity of the socialist states and their military-strategic parity with the NATO countries must at all costs be preserved , as the only secure guarantee against the ‘ aggressive appetites of imperialism ’ . |
| 6 | He was becoming increasingly conscious of the existence of something at the core — in fact , a suspicion , a threat , which must at all costs be shielded from his probes . |