Example sentences of "this be [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For a band , this is not at all desirable because their earnings are out of their direct control .
2 The choice to concentrate on this period should not be taken as implying that coin designs are unimportant in the study of other cultures , for this is not at all the case .
3 This is not at all her normal line on the subject .
4 This is not at all what I thought , ’ he complained .
5 This is not at all the case and if Tam ( who is usually very accurate in his writing ) read the material coming from the European Parliament he would know that this is not the case .
6 This is not at all the simple task that it may at first seem : we shall see that considerable care must be taken in interpreting the official statistics on unemployment .
7 This is not at all to say that there is among the professions an animus against the industrial co-operative as incorporated body for doing business .
8 This is not at all surprising given the insistence by magistrates on the uniqueness of the cases appearing before them , which is why they utterly reject calls for consistency ( Parker et al. , 1999 ) , since these are seen to betray an ignorance of their own unique role in deciding each case on its particular merits .
9 As we shall now see , this is not at all the case .
10 This is not at all an easy task .
11 You know it 's wicked is n't it really , cos some of this stuff , I mean this is not at all bad is it ?
12 ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ he adds , ‘ this is not at all what we ordinarily perceive . ’
13 This is not at first apparent , mainly because of the particular uses to which his work has been put .
14 as if this was n't at all what he 'd bargained for .
15 This was not at all unreasonable but , looking at the full deal , you can see that Three No-Trumps would have been easy .
16 This was not at all like school .
17 This was not at all what the supporters of union wanted , but they were willing , in order to lure and placate British opinion , to accept such an intergovernmental structure alongside an assembly .
18 While we know of certain special cases ( the sonnets of Michelangelo to Tommaso Cavalieri , for instance ) , it is now clear that this was not at all customary , and that the imputation of homosexuality in the Renaissance could have as destructive an effect on a man 's life as it has had until recently ( if , indeed , there has been any real change of English attitudes in these supposedly liberal times ) .
19 This was not at all a foolish answer , if one supposes that geometry describes the properties of space and that occupancy of space is the basic property of matter .
20 This was not at all what she had imagined when Miss Grimes left .
21 It seemed almost as if she would have to side with Ianthe against the anthropologists , and this was not at all what she had intended .
22 The organization of this was not at first easily accepted by every member of staff .
23 This was usually at low concentrations and was found predominantly in the upper two-thirds of the villi , with crypt epithelial cells being entirely negative .
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