Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lack of any firm action by the police even led the Board to take the whole issue to the High Court . |
| 2 | For these reasons the term has been chosen for use in the title of the present book and throughout the text to denote the whole range of children from those who are totally blind through to those who possess useful but impaired vision . |
| 3 | CIWF is trying to get the ban to cover the whole EC . |
| 4 | And er we 'd done quite a l we 'd he 'd refurnished his who Th You know they got the contract to furnish the whole house and it was beautiful you know . |
| 5 | However , when the garment was completed I did n't like it and took the decision to unpick the whole thing . |
| 6 | A breach of condition ( e.g. as to quality ) in relation to the first instalment will entitle the buyer to repudiate the whole contract . |
| 7 | A ‘ browsing ’ system allows the user to explore the whole direction of facilities , organized as a ‘ tree ’ , including the SMALLTALK language itself . |
| 8 | What an international perspective can add is a sense of the contradictions or points of stress in the new structures : the attempt to shift the whole system by floods of detailed description and prescription and the consequent overloading of channels of communication ; the preoccupation with assessment to the point where it may overwhelm the teaching ; the ambivalent character of statutory syllabuses as being at once central regulation and individual entitlement ; the potentially disruptive and anomalous role of governing bodies which may act simply as local guardians of centrally determined norms , but may also be educated to accept more subtle and flexible views of what schools can and should do , and may develop the political clout to do something about it . |
| 9 | A major change in Nissan 's plans is the intention to run the whole rally programme from Britain . |
| 10 | ‘ I believe that the whole of Belfast should be included in the ban and this is the view of the council , but the DHSS , which has to approve our proposed extension , will not allow the council to include the whole city . ’ |
| 11 | It would have been opportune for the committee to examine the whole purpose and function of A levels , to see whether they were needed at all ; or whether , if retained , they should be radically changed . |
| 12 | Moreover , it has long been accepted that repairing covenants do not require the covenantor to renew the whole property or modernise an elderly and decaying building . |
| 13 | But , none the less , the aim to study the whole population determined the scope and the character of both these types of early surveys and , in so doing , encouraged the search for new ways of doing so cheaply through innovations in the applications of statistical theory to the selection of samples . |
| 14 | Modern sleeved couplings avoid the need to dismantle the whole stack . |
| 15 | One important lesson concerns the need to consider the whole child when trying to discover what a child understands or is capable of . |
| 16 | One considerable advantage is that units satisfying specified conditions can be extracted for analysis without the need to scan the whole file ; on the other hand , there are considerable overheads in setting up the database . |
| 17 | This helps stress the need to get the whole approach right if the landings are to be reasonably accurate . |
| 18 | The tenancy conferred on Mr Villiers and Miss Bridger the right to occupy the whole flat as their dwelling . |
| 19 | In 1978 , furthermore , the Parliament was given the right to reject the whole EC budget . |
| 20 | This too is the theme of the present series and the underlying aim of the movement to meet the whole range of special needs in ordinary schools . |
| 21 | If reference to Parliamentary material is permitted as an aid to the construction of legislation which is ambiguous , or obscure or the literal meaning of which leads to an absurdity , I believe as I have said that in practically every case it will be incumbent on those preparing the argument to examine the whole proceedings on the Bill in question in both Houses of Parliament . |
| 22 | God was sovereign ; He had the authority to destroy the whole world because of the sinfulness and violence of men . |
| 23 | All the denunciations of a property tax could just about be accommodated , but how were the Government to overcome the whole rationale of the ill-fated poll tax experiment , the supposed unacceptability of the rates ? |
| 24 | Having taken the plunge to buy the whole site , it was necessary to consider how best to use the new asset to the greatest benefit . |
| 25 | Separate from curriculum and assessment , a third element in the 1988 Act , although it affects teaching staff only indirectly , still has the potential to affect the whole future of a school . |
| 26 | Section 2.5 broadens the discussion to consider the whole concept of uneven development . |
| 27 | However , he added that : In the end of the day the approach as to the scope of the clause may not be substantially different and he agreed with Lord Denning in the result , that the clause did not , as a matter of construction , allow the company to alter the whole substance of the contract . |
| 28 | With downlighting day and night , the glass walls enable the public to view the whole interior from outside . |
| 29 | Indeed I know a number of authorities who 're actually considering sending delegations to , to meet with the Minister to discuss the whole issue of sheep dip , and er , the lack of compulsory in er sheep dipping . |
| 30 | Essentially , creativity , as Coleridge sees it , comes down to the ability to perceive the whole picture . |