Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] a whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | This valve is generally situated under a small metal cover — in towns , it is possible to see a whole row of these stretching down the pavement ; in rural areas , it may be more difficult to find . |
| 2 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 3 | Notice that the prices quoted are the rough cost of buying a new item and £700 is what you would have to pay extra to create a whole new second machine . |
| 4 | 5.4.3 To clean the Premises and keep them in a clean neat and tidy condition and ( without prejudice to the generality of the above ) to clean both sides of all windows and window frames in the Premises [ at least [ once ] every [ week ] or as often as is [ reasonably ] necessary ] It is quite easy to devote a whole chapter to the subject of repair and the Law Commission has recently published a consultation paper on the state and condition of leasehold property with a view to considering existing obligations and how the law can be improved with regard to them . |
| 5 | By being doctrinaire and parochial , it is easy to have a whole host of companies competing in the same home market ; but how many will be effective ( or even in business ) in ten years ' time ? |
| 6 | In it I was horrified to find a whole pile of love letters from Linton . |
| 7 | But it would be less obvious to produce a whole description of Dr Demulch in perhaps a mildly humorous vein : " Dr Demulch was a brown man . |
| 8 | More people are providing non-alcoholic drinks in their homes and at parties for the sake of those driving , and it is possible to invent a whole range of interesting and appetizing non-alcoholic drinks that are absolutely free from lethal side effects . |
| 9 | It also gave him the excuse for being able to claim a whole series of ‘ expenditures ’ on his taxation forms , such as furnishings , heating , materials and travel . |
| 10 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 11 | Riding one of Jennie 's fabulous dressage schoolmasters , Katharine was able to experience a whole host of dressage movements from flying changes to pirouettes that she had never been able to try before . |
| 12 | James Johnston 's hellish screams , torrid streams of abuse and vehement playing sever all traces of decency , and unless you 're familiar with obscure ( and now practically obsolete ) bands like Silver Apples , you 're able to experience a whole new and distinctive way to appreciate the feral and f—ed -up . |
| 13 | It is , in our view , more important to forge a whole school policy than to take on new practices piecemeal . |
| 14 | But for non-intentional but dangerous acts , refs are reluctant to punish a whole team for one man 's folly . |
| 15 | And for every quarter we need three twelfths so we need four lots of three twelfths how many twelfths to make a whole one ? |
| 16 | So we need four of those to make a whole pizza so we call that a fourth well the Americans call it a fourth |
| 17 | Tremayne 's vet took small blood samples of all the stable 's runners prior to their last training gallop before they raced , the resulting detailed analysis being able to reveal a whole host of things from a raised lymphocyte count to excreted enzymes due to muscle damage . |
| 18 | The Children 's Legal Centre has argued that the practice of what it calls ‘ mass detentions ’ should be prohibited altogether , because it is morally unjustifiable to punish a whole class for the actions of one or two of its members and likely to precipitate resentment among pupils . |
| 19 | It is not necessary to record a whole class each time . |
| 20 | However , it is then often necessary to read a whole bucket into primary storage at a time ; it is not possible to search the bucket and read in only the required record , but this does not apply if a device such as ICL 's CAFS-ISP is available to speed up the search . |
| 21 | All aspects of education are necessary to develop a whole personality and every child has a whole personality , even if it is hard for us to see this at times . |
| 22 | By the end of his Government Baldwin was anxious to make a whole series of Cabinet changes . |
| 23 | Brief as it was , the contact was sufficient to trigger a whole wealth of signals she was working desperately hard to suppress . |
| 24 | It became a Soviet priority in the 1980s to prevent a whole series of Third World states from reverting back to military alignment or alliance with the West . |