Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Most guitarists have heard of the ‘ waxing ’ method of eliminating feedback , but unfortunately this is a difficult process to carry out at home as it involves dipping the whole pickup assembly into hot paraffin wax , which has to be carried out at a controlled temperature : too hot and the bobbins melt , too cold and the wax does n't penetrate the coil windings . |
| 2 | The government says the changes are interim measures and it intends to reconsider the whole question of the treatment of earnings received by people on unemployment benefit . |
| 3 | The government says the changes are interim measures and it intends to reconsider the whole question of the treatment of earnings received by people on unemployment benefit . |
| 4 | The government says the changes are interim measures and it intends to reconsider the whole question of the treatment of earnings received by people on unemployment benefit . |
| 5 | it tends to elongate the whole process . |
| 6 | Otherwise it tends to make the whole picture , like , I went to er er one club once and there was a very nice portrait , not unlike this , there was a girl sitting on a stool , rather less clothes on than this girl has got and it was very nicely done except she was sitting on a painted stool and all the paint was chipped and that to me looked really tacky ! |
| 7 | But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’ |
| 8 | How long it takes to complete the whole block of letters is measured . |
| 9 | Perhaps had the Ceauşescus ruled over a larger state their megalomania might have been more comfortably contained , but trapped inside little Romania it began to consume the whole nation and to penetrate into every area of life , even its most intimate secrets . |
| 10 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |
| 11 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |
| 12 | Pray for Tear Fund as it seeks to bring the whole Gospel into lives which have been shattered by famine , war and disaster . |
| 13 | Even the article ‘ Conductor ’ in the New Grove dictionary of opera is , unfortunately , misleading : for all its caution , it attempts to paint the whole period from 1750 to Napoleon , and in doing so unjustifiably reinforces certain impressions we recall from the powerful pens of the Encyclopedists : |
| 14 | He wrote to the CVCP , in fact , explaining that the CNAA would be considering courses ‘ in Education ’ , that it intended to approach the whole question with care , and that although the Council ‘ was not taking the initiative in seeking to extend its work in the field of Education , several colleges of education had made informal approaches which could not be ignored … |