Example sentences of "the whole [noun] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence for this article was of a particular kind , and the proposal is to apply the same methods to the subsequent period , taking the whole revaluation as far as the First World War . |
| 2 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 3 | So long as we are dealing with materials which are approximately elastic and approximately homogeneous this is virtually the whole story as far as strength and brittleness are concerned . |
| 4 | But that 's the whole story as far as Tom 's concerned . ’ |
| 5 | She takes the whole subject very seriously and intends to become very involved in Green issues at all kinds of levels in future . |
| 6 | The proper equipment makes the whole operation far easier and safer , and encourages instructors to practise those exercises which can so often result in a long walk back to the launch point . |
| 7 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 8 | Chesarynth booted in the program , making her own little file with an octopus of dark hollow symbols : a worm that would eat up any trace of her prying , provided she did the whole thing quickly enough that no-one noticed while she was in . |
| 9 | There was some argument on the English side as to the best way of crossing the river and finishing the whole business as swiftly as possible . |
| 10 | In another change of tack — there was a time when OS/2 was the whole future as far as the company was concerned , Microsoft Corp is switching its signals and is now making it clear that it expects MS-DOS users to prepare to switch to Windows NT . |
| 11 | The external schema is the subset of the database which is relevant to the particular user , and though it may be a summarised and a very restricted subset , the user may think that it represents the whole view , because it is the whole view as far as the user is concerned . |
| 12 | Alan Strachan as director knits the whole show together neatly and Jonathan Cohen on piano is a suitably reticent accompanist . |