Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] all cost " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the easiest way to ensure that — a readiness to criticise the Government at each and every turn — is the one temptation he has at all costs to resist . |
| 2 | any displacement of outside motion jobs by inside motion versions was regarded as a retrograde step and had to be discouraged at all costs . |
| 3 | 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 . [ … ] |
| 4 | In some of the other source studies discounting was quite appropriately not applied as all costs and benefits occurred within a year . |
| 5 | e ) Every member of the Executive Committee and its standing Sub-Committees and the holder of any office of the Society shall be entitled to be indemnified against all costs , charges , losses , expenses and liabilities incurred by them in the execution and discharge of their responsibilities relating to the Society . |
| 6 | Some believe equally that the institutions are decaying and that this is a part of some general drift towards anarchy which must be prevented at all costs . |
| 7 | They should be prevented at all costs from making records . |
| 8 | They should be prevented at all costs from making records . |
| 9 | A small group of professionals , myself included , selected those books which we believed should be saved at all costs but , although we did this as conscientiously as possible , our combined subject knowledge was at best partial and it is inevitable that some books worthy of preservation were overlooked … |
| 10 | Yet common sense dictates that there can be very few police actions which a person would be entitled to resist at all costs , including if ‘ necessary ’ the use of fatal force . |
| 11 | St John the Baptist had to be preserved at all costs . |
| 12 | ‘ The role of SSSI is not to say that the rest of the countryside does n't matter , but show up areas which should be preserved at all costs . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But with bitter consequences , for the target they have chosen is the very thing they should be preserving at all costs . |
| 15 | ( This was a situation we had to avoid at all costs . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think the thing we want to avoid at all costs — I mean , I really feel quite strongly about this — is setting up some kind of Utopia — some kind of over-simplified Arcadia which would n't stretch the imagination of the … ’ |
| 17 | Both are using other people as pawns in a game in which they need to win at all costs . |
| 18 | I was here to win at all costs and did so in rather fine style . ’ |
| 19 | Despite a weak script , the film certainly conveyed the motivation behind Marathon runners and the pain they endure in an effort to win at all costs . |
| 20 | It may be quicker for someone who hears well to reply , particularly when they know the answer and the question is unimportant , but this must be avoided at all cost . |
| 21 | Whilst most recognized the coffin as a means of transporting the dead to an authorized place of disposal , some viewed it as a receptacle for a precious relic — so precious that the very thought of earth or elements contributing to its destruction should be avoided at all cost . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Gardeners occasionally regard shade as an evil to be avoided at all costs . |
| 25 | The ‘ good loser syndrome ’ has to be avoided at all costs . |
| 26 | Right from the early 1960s the attitude of local authorities and housing departments has been that ‘ ghettos ’ must be avoided at all costs , and even a handful of Asian families can make an area into a ghetto . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , to be avoided at all costs is turning each day into a ‘ patchwork quilt ’ of conflicting perfumes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Over-dependence upon the United States should be avoided at all costs . |
| 30 | The risk is that a show 's technical and business farming content can be eroded in the process , and that must be avoided at all costs . |