Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chronology of place-name developments was rejected by place-name scholars after seminal research by John McNeal Dodgson in 1966 and , to the extent that it has been replaced at all , place names are now seen to represent the hierarchical status of places in the landscape with no particular significance attached to when they are first recorded . |
| 2 | the Licensed Software has been used at all times properly and in accordance with instructions for use as set out in the Accompanying Documentation |
| 3 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 4 | It is the production version of the PWS 4000 porting platform which has been shown at all the major computer exhibitions since Comdex/Fall last October ( UX No 357 ) . |
| 5 | If he has been known at all to movie-goers thus far , it 's been as Spike Lee 's cinematographer : even when Lee 's brashness caused you to squirm in your seat , you still have something pretty marvellous to look at , and that 's Ernest Dickerson 's work . |
| 6 | So if w = 0.5 , this year 's expected rate would be 13 per cent ; if w = 1 , this year 's expected rate would be 16 per cent ( in this case , the expectation is said to have been fully adjusted ) ; if w = 0 , the expectation would be 10 per cent ( that is , it would not have been adjusted at all ) . |
| 7 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 8 | they provide no way of measuring the salience of an attitude ; we never know whether the attitude would have been expressed at all , or in the same way , apart from the direct question … |
| 9 | In a letter to a newspaper , their solicitor Tim Robinson says that his clients should never have been prosecuted at all . |
| 10 | It seemed almost impossible to many people that such tiny things as micro-organisms could have been fossilised at all . |
| 11 | To understand it , we need first to look at the development of Nietzsche 's inner life : the particular temperament and range of interests without which the controversial book would never have been written at all . |
| 12 | Lloyd de Mause reports that ‘ the earliest lives I have found of children who may not have been beaten at all date from 1690 ’ . |
| 13 | The best books of today do not look in the least like Kelmscotts , but without Morris they might never have been created at all . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works . |
| 15 | The appeal was not very successful and was condemned by many prominent townspeople , but that it could have been launched at all goes to show that old traditions die hard in the West Country ! |
| 16 | Such schemes almost always represent a very poor true economic return and many would not have been contemplated at all if the substantial grants and HLCAs were unavailable . |
| 17 | In fact we may take it from the wording of Section 2 of the Definition Order that , during the conference questions were asked about the liability of individuals to repatriation , or Section 2 might not have been included at all . |
| 18 | ‘ We do not believe the public would have been told at all but for us , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 19 | Indeed would it have been told at all ? |
| 20 | The photograph was taken on a favourable day or it could not have been taken at all . |
| 21 | June 28 : Douglas DC–6B YU–AFF is now reported not to have been damaged at all during the fighting at Ljubljana Airport . |
| 22 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 23 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 24 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 25 | Although one government-inspired commentator tried later to dismiss the FBI teletype as ‘ an early memo … that sketched one possible scenario , as of October 1989 ’ , and which subsequent events had rendered ‘ irrelevant ’ and ‘ pointless ’ , it was less easy to reject the categorical denials by Air Malta , the airport staff at Luqa , the Maltese police and the Maltese government that any unaccompanied bag had been sent to Frankfurt on 21 December 1988 , or , indeed , that any Maltese connection with the Lockerbie bombing had been established at all , other than that the clothing in the suitcase bomb had apparently originated on the island . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor later in the year protested with apparent truthfulness that they had been quite unaware that it had been passed at all ! . |
| 27 | Many police officers were angry that the cases had been brought at all , since the methods employed by the defendant constables were said to have involved no more than what was set out in the Home Office-approved Tactical Options Manual . |
| 28 | They were so free in expression she wondered if they had been read at all by his parents but presumed they could hardly have escaped their eye . |
| 29 | Barriers have been erected at all Football League grounds in the light of recommendations made in the Lang Report ( 1969 ) — their purpose being ‘ the segregation of young people from other spectators ’ . |
| 30 | For maturing policies , terminal bonuses have been cut at all premium levels . |