Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within lesson structures of this kind , teachers do not , in fact , orientate themselves so much to the needs of individual students , but tend to treat the whole class as a kind of ‘ collective student ’ . |
| 2 | It was the latter 's son Joseph , now about 55 , who lived to see the whole enterprise brought to a halt by the hostilities . |
| 3 | Since Croydon Corporation 's tramway system was leased to the B.E.T. , the fact that the Penge services and the Mitcham/Sutton services would be separated by about two miles of Corporation owned track was thought to be of little consequence and it was intended to work the whole system as one with lengthy through services , under the ‘ Croydon & District Tramways ’ fleet name . |
| 4 | ‘ He does n't want to know the whole picture anymore . |
| 5 | Novels are much more difficult to place and from a new writer , publishers normally want to see the whole book . |
| 6 | Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA . |
| 7 | Swoon director Tom Kalin — he wants to seduce the whole nation with his New Queer Cinema |
| 8 | You do n't need to drain the whole system — just enough so that water does n't come out of the immersion heater boss . |
| 9 | As the perspective on teacher education widens to span the whole career of the teacher and as the work of teacher-preparation courses becomes far more closely linked to the |
| 10 | So each link in the system has to handle the whole range , and bandwidth , of services provided . |
| 11 | We 'll need to sweep the whole area . |
| 12 | The agency calls for radar to be installed to cover the whole Scottish coast , and says tanker masters should be required to report significant failures to the Coastguard immediately they happen . |
| 13 | Since I 'd rather look at vegetation than at larch lap panels , I decided to try to cover the whole fence with a rich variety of climbers and wall plants . |
| 14 | Roy Smith , Labour member for Clacton West , tried to persuade the whole council to reject plans to close Priory Meadow , at St Osyth . |
| 15 | The people , by this time , had also come to regret the whole incident and they beseeched him to stay . |
| 16 | Well you see she wants to do the whole lot er cos it 's all She said , Feet are the only part of the human body she can tolerate . |
| 17 | Ronnie wants to put the whole incident behind him and would rather not say any more . |
| 18 | Her son is now back at work and says he just wants to put the whole episode behind him . |
| 19 | ‘ I just want to forget the whole damn thing . ’ |
| 20 | Now the Japanese parent wants to run the whole show here and Mr Botnar , not unnaturally , is digging in his heels . |
| 21 | This even applies to listed buildings : there is still a worryingly widespread general belief that listing only covers the facade , or perhaps just the exterior , whereas it is of course expressly designed to protect the whole building . |
| 22 | ‘ They know the anniversary 's coming up and they want to start the whole damn Reconciliation over again . ’ |
| 23 | One has to consider the whole network of interacting influences ; not , as the critical period model attempts to do , skip all but the first and last link . |
| 24 | Binton 's vicar , the Rev Peter Williams , said last night : ‘ I understand his family want to keep the whole thing private . |
| 25 | For those who could not laugh , the best remedy might be to try to erase the whole subject from their minds . |
| 26 | These systems have to be designed to flood the whole warehouse to eaves level at every incident of fire and would cause considerable water damage to packaging and some commodities . |
| 27 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 28 | When she tugged the chain ( which had a pottery handle bluntly instructing her to ‘ PULL ’ on it ) , there was a raucous , metallic clanking fit to wake the whole house , but not a trickle of water came down to flush the bowl . |
| 29 | The code of military behaviour had come to permeate the whole world of knightly behaviour , not just the field of battle . |
| 30 | But one night we tried to get the whole entire floor out on the landing . |