Example sentences of "[noun] over the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , neither Roosevelt nor the State Department was persuaded that the British would necessarily or at least wholeheartedly support the United States over the whole range of its postwar interests and aspirations . |
| 2 | Given the growth in his ordinary income and the difficulty of estimating its size in the early years of his reign , it would not be very useful to work out an average of the total revenue over the whole reign . |
| 3 | This is because benefits ( which are entirely fuel savings over the whole system ) are less valuable early in the plant 's life than they become later , as coal and oil prices are expected to rise continuously in real terms . |
| 4 | It currently appears unlikely that either directive will be implemented before the end of 1991 because of disputes over the whole Company Law Statute , which the Germans in particular are not happy about . |
| 5 | Take a typical staircase in your home ( 3–35° ) , tilt it to match the angle of the sides of Egypt 's Great Pyramids at Giza ( 52° ) , remove some of the steps , and shovel ice and a couple of feet of snow over the whole affair . |
| 6 | It 's very rare that there is no wind over the whole country , and to some extent when the wind drops so does the demand for fuel . |
| 7 | Each strategy will be given its own management team , which will be expected to work out all the effects over the whole company , including estimates of resource requirements for each subsidiary business . |
| 8 | In the main , this situation was created by , firstly , the distance between the units , especially the Regional Unit , and the communities in which the users live ; and , secondly , the lack of available staff with , for example , the local unit having the equivalent of two full-time staff to cover home visits over the whole area . |
| 9 | ‘ The gigantic power and influence of the ovaries over the whole animal economy of woman ’ , as Dr Bliss put it in 1870 , meant that women 's constitutions were believed to be inherently unstable throughout the life cycle . |
| 10 | I made , I think , a 2 per cent or 3 per cent error over the whole test . |
| 11 | Alternatively , the rate of marine erosion at the base of the cliffs may be less than the general rate of subaerial denudation over the whole cliff . |
| 12 | Bearing these points in mind let us look at developments in each of the main policy areas over the whole period . |
| 13 | Average rates of return over the whole period were : ICI — HC 15% , CPP 1 ½%; GEC — HC 19% , CPP 10 ½%.; e |
| 14 | In fact , libertarian ideologists seem to be scarce in the Young Conservatives over the whole West Midland region . |
| 15 | In other words , the speaker of [ 14 ] could be said to be optimising relevance over the whole text . |
| 16 | The question which remains to be solved is : were these phrases added to existing documents in 1070–72 to support Lanfranc 's claim to primacy over the whole area of the British Isles , or were they added as a last resort in 1120 , when the claim which Lanfranc , Anselm and Archbishop Ralph had all supported was facing final and irrevocable defeat ? |
| 17 | In complete contrast , ruched or festoon blinds are both pretty and feminine , and can be lavish and opulent depending on the fabric used and their surroundings The fabric of ruched blinds is permanently gathered up in rows along its length , forming a ruched scalloped appearance over the whole surface of the blind . |
| 18 | The line itself is made of copper , which has an average life of ten years over the whole system , but much less on sharp curves . |
| 19 | The average delay over the whole period is 4.8 years , but if the data are split into the two time periods represented in the Rolfe & Will lists , it is found that the average delay for the 1960-1976 period is 8.8 years , whereas the average for 1976-83 is 1.9 years . |
| 20 | Control of the terms chosen for the headings list ( what is technically called the " thesaurus " ) is of crucial importance if the coordinate index is to attempt to provide a service over the whole field of knowledge , and if it is to provide the depth of service that is technically feasible . |
| 21 | The Centre 's miniature railway was swamped with customers over the whole weekend . |
| 22 | Language , literature , thought , art , politics and society become separate territories and are occupied by separate specialists , until it becomes increasingly hard to find any scholars with pretensions to competence over the whole field : K. O. Müller from Göttingen , active in the 1820 's and thirties , is one notable exception , but there were few to approach his breadth then or subsequently . |
| 23 | She does washes of background colour over the whole canvas , then builds the shapes and colours up gradually . |
| 24 | Carefully place paper patch into the hole , then lay the tissue over the whole area . |
| 25 | The French retained fishing rights and rights to use the western shore as a base which turned out to be a source of dispute for almost two centuries , but the British were clearly establishing their control over the whole Atlantic seacoast . |
| 26 | It has been rightly said that in the thirteenth century the king of France ( unlike the king of England ) possessed no direct control over the whole kingdom : ‘ outside the domain , default alone allowed him to act ’ . |
| 27 | Eisenhower was not objecting to the building of strong defence forces , but stressing the need for civilian control over the whole area of defence and foreign policy . |
| 28 | For example , the chief in Figure 5.15 has control over the whole machine , whereas the draughtsman only works on the fine detail of a specific part . |
| 29 | The design and construction of manuals , parts lists , catalogues and so forth is an area that requires more control over the whole document than , say , a word processor but does n't require the control over every item that a page makeup program provides . |
| 30 | As well as being used to produce economic forecasts , the model can be used to answer questions on the impact over the whole economy of alternative economic policies . |