Example sentences of "[conj] [det] is at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although this is at first appealing , on closer examination the concept is somewhat flawed . |
| 2 | It is necessary to prepare tor convalescence before you go into hospital if that is at all possible . |
| 3 | still keeps the wage-labour relationship and the work-role as determinative of social existence , even if this is at second hand ( and its being at second hand is very important in relation to issues of patriarchy ) . |
| 4 | Also , when families are providing care for a disabled relative they usually want to continue to do so if this is at all possible . |
| 5 | These inferences are based on the remarkable robustness of the assumption of cooperation : if someone drastically and dramatically deviates from maxim-type behaviour , then his utterances are still read as underlyingly co-operative if this is at all possible . |
| 6 | the acceptable proposition that some shared morality is essential to the existence of any society , to the unacceptable proposition that a society is identical with its morality , as that is at any given moment of its history , so that a change in its morality is tantamount to the destruction of a society . |