Example sentences of "they [vb past] the whole [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | They complicated the whole problem of obedience in a quite remarkable way , and they took up a great deal of Anselm 's time as archbishop . |
2 | This is achieved by treating highly selective versions of experience and life as if they covered the whole range of experiential processes and forms of living , which , in fact , excludes the normal experiences and lives of the vast majority of the population . |
3 | They covered the whole range of the law as so far pronounced . |
4 | Later illustrations brought in more : they included the whole life-cycle of an insect , as the plates of butterflies and moths of Humphrys and Westwood ( 1841 , 1843–5 ) do ; in their handsome but crowded pictures we find a number of close species , on characteristic food plants , thus getting both system and ecology . |
5 | When planners in these corporations invented a new piece of military hardware , the Cruise missile , and proceeded to ‘ sell ’ it to their contacts in the Pentagon and in Congress , they structured the whole context of defence debates not only in the United States but across all the NATO countries in Western Europe as well ( Kaldor , 1982 ) . |
6 | They brought the whole flock of sheep and goats , thirty-five or forty of them , on to the roof to tie on the lukals — the double-pouched woven saddle-bags — stuffed with potatoes and Tibetan salt for trading in the south . |
7 | They were respectively a banker 's son , a Junker and a retired army major , and between them they represented the whole range of Junker-middle-class collusion and delusion . |