Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spring 1991 a research project was used to further the debate in a broader context of views about the whole decision-making process within the school . |
| 2 | Investiture was the symbolic part of a struggle behind which there were fundamentally different views about the whole ordering of society and about who was the divinely appointed agent for that purpose . |
| 3 | Since school reports can stand separately from this it is possible to revise present reporting systems in preparation for the whole National Curriculum to come on stream . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a unity about the whole thing which needs to be practised in a single centre , ’ the MRC source said . |
| 5 | By the end of it , some members may have forgotten the reasons for the whole idea , so let us recap briefly : there are economies of scale , certainly , though the addition of 6,500 members to 100,000 does not in itself produce any great saving in CIB operating costs ( we used to recruit nearly three times that number of new members from the banks alone in a good year in the 1980s ) ; there is potential recruitment , from more than 60,000 building society employees ; but , above all , the merger demonstrates to the public that two major parts of the much maligned financial services sector are keen to improve their standards , and gives commercial rivals an exceptional opportunity to enjoy the benefits of co-operation in educational endeavour . |
| 6 | The real crime of the USSR is to have spoiled an opportunity for the whole world , they have so discredited socialism . ’ |
| 7 | The window was barred on the outside but this did not seem unreasonable as there was only one thin wall of barbed wire as defence for the whole camp . |
| 8 | The medical profession itself , notably in the Dawson Report of 1920 , advocated some kind of comprehensive health care provision for the whole population . |
| 9 | If one assumes the no boundary condition for the universe , we shall see that there must be well-defined thermodynamic and cosmological arrows of time , but they will not point in the same direction for the whole history of the universe . |
| 10 | There was a certain amount of rearrangement as the whole audience linked . |
| 11 | So she rehearsed the triumphs and achievements of the Thatcher Revolution and laid lavish claim to having lit in Britain the torch of freedom for the whole world . |
| 12 | After all … 2.000.000.000,00 when you think about it , is … 0,00 compared to the budget for the whole production , which will probably run out about 100.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00 . ’ |
| 13 | These are maintained schools which provide education for school pupils and mature students alongside social , recreational and cultural activities for the whole community . |
| 14 | ‘ Most men I know would hang a title round their necks for the whole world to see ! ’ |
| 15 | This can be seen in their reaction to the most striking change of this kind during the whole early modern period — the assumption by Tsar Peter I in 1721 of the new title of Emperor ( Imperator ) . |
| 16 | Do you make distinct sounds for each of the vowels , or do you use pretty well one indeterminate noise for the whole lot ? |
| 17 | Sir Denis evinced less enthusiasm for the whole electoral process . |
| 18 | Journalists who shared Herr 's enthusiasm for the whole experience , if enthusiasm is the word , tend to quote with wistful nostalgia one particular line from Dispatches : ‘ I think Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods . ’ |
| 19 | Public statutes are the will of Parliament for the whole country and apply to local authorities of each class alike , whereas private statutes apply to the local authority which obtains from Parliament the private statute . |
| 20 | The sentiment expressed in the phrase is simply that a strong EC should lay these foundations for the whole continent . |
| 21 | Evidently , during the journey , Crabb told Mrs Rose something about his mission and appeared to have some misgivings about the whole affair . |
| 22 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 23 | The Munn Report examined the structure of the curriculum in the last two years of compulsory schooling in Scotland , and carried out its work almost at the same time as the Dunning Committee considered the aims , purposes and forms of assessment for the whole ability range . |
| 24 | The sad part about the whole sorry affair is that you appear to have been badly let down by those who by rights ought to feel indebted to you , but with the Sun in Aries and that part of your solar chart related to affairs of the heart you are bound to win some kind of moral victory , and even if you do decide to make a settlement this month you should still feel you really have much to celebrate . |
| 25 | As our diagram shows , its most important product is naphtha which is the key feedstock for the whole operation . |
| 26 | The pupil 's classroom and working groups ( how an individual 's behaviour may have a function for the whole group who may then try and prevent him from changing it ; how groups may be handled so as not to ‘ need ’ one child 's particular behaviour and instead support his progress ) |
| 27 | You can insure personal items worth £1,000 for the whole year AND get holiday cover , for just £12 to £15 on your home insurance . |
| 28 | And the head — above all — needs to take responsibility for the whole programme . |
| 29 | By the summer of 1940 , the Central Council for Jewish Refugees was again feeling the pinch , with the result that the government accepted , in principle , the responsibility for the whole cost of maintaining refugees at scales to be agreed and seventy-five per cent of the cost of administration . |
| 30 | It is ‘ joint and several ’ : anybody involved may have responsibility for the whole site , however slight the involvement . |