Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does America really need to leap a whole generation ahead in fighter technology , to build an aeroplane that can beat undreamed-of Russian fighters of the undreamed-of Russia of the next century ? |
| 2 | We have already noted that lawyers can be expected to provide a whole range of help which would certainly include information , advice and assistance . |
| 3 | If you want to serve a whole gammon on the bone , simple double the glaze ingredients . |
| 4 | You 're expected to remember a whole process that you 're asking to you know explain how to fill in the form or use another system . |
| 5 | You do n't need to buy a whole collection of new knives — you can do any cutting job with just four basic ones : a cook 's knife , with a deep , broad back and strong , rigid 15 to 30-cm long blade ; a filleting knife with a 15 cm flexible blade for fiddly jobs ; a paring knife for trimming and peeling ; and a carving knife with a 25 cm blade and sharply pointed tip . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a good thing you 're such a chaste little man-hater , Virginia , because the trouble is I want to do a whole lot more than just kiss you … ’ |
| 7 | To understand music-hall and vaudeville one has to fight through layers of myth and romance and one has to undo a whole view of the past that uses nostalgia for pre-1914 as a touchstone . |
| 8 | So a hummingbird that specialises in feeding from Heliconia has to patrol a whole group of plants , visiting each hanging spike of blossoms in strict rotation on a carefully timed schedule . |
| 9 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 10 | Today I tried to get a whole tin every day , it 's just because it happened . |
| 11 | But , in the Hallowe'en Novices ' Chase he might need to eat a whole mine , to beat Dusty Miller , another Festival scorer . |
| 12 | How many of those would you need to make a whole pizza ? |
| 13 | Our campaign soon led us to investigate the finances of the National Land Fund , which over the previous twenty years had been used to acquire a whole series of country houses for the nation . |
| 14 | Add to this the recent announcements by Kodak and Xerox that they have adopted Adobe PostScript as a future imaging model and you begin to see a whole new world opening up where the PC is , at last , able to hold its head up in the Macintosh dominated publishing market . |
| 15 | Our old mates THE ORB popped round to Vibes central control the other day for tea and spacecakes and a quick intergalactic natter , and somehow they just happened to leave a whole box of ORB window stickers in the VIBES record cupboard — and would you believe it just as they were about to leave we could n't find the key ? |
| 16 | I think the problem with feminism is that a lot of people think that somehow you have to understand an awful lot of things , you have to read a lot of books , and you 've got to understand a whole lot of different theories , before you can call yourself a feminist . |
| 17 | He and Bob were rushing to get a whole day 's work done before lunchtime , in order to get away for poor old Eddy 's funeral in the afternoon , when a woman called Samantha Lightbody rang from the BBC . |
| 18 | Explain and critically discuss cumulative average residual methodology and explain how it has been used to test a whole range of market phenomena from semi-strong efficiency theory to the efficacy of stockbrokers ' tips . |
| 19 | They would be hard to remember ; they would have been a nuisance to printers , who would have had to make a whole series of new pieces of type ; but perhaps most important , they were ambiguous . |
| 20 | In the United States , choosing a name for each new site tends to involve a whole series of different people — including the division manager , advertising group , marketing department and the company president . |
| 21 | Getting to use a whole extra rank of weapons in the face of a charge can come in very handy . |
| 22 | But he soon got into his stride , and began to develop a whole bestiary of characters who were to delight millions for the next twenty-three years . |
| 23 | Rauschning returned to face a whole series of issues and policies he felt he could no longer support or accept and to find himself cited in an investigation of both Jewish and communist influence in the city . |
| 24 | Secondly , the new Conservative national government began to introduce a whole set of nationally promoted , and equally contentious , ‘ local ’ economic strategies . |
| 25 | I really do n't want to start a whole new surveillance routine . ’ |
| 26 | The band who were committed to the Abba revival and flares fives years ago have come out of retirement and intend to convert a whole new audience to their zany cocktail of punk , glam and psychedelia . |
| 27 | If your garden slope is fairly gentle , and you do n't want to build a whole flight of steps , you could always join short lengths of sloping path with just one or two steps at intervals , but the approach should always be as level as possible . |
| 28 | which is useful when they may have to wait a whole year for payment for their wheat harvest , or for the sale of fat cattle . |
| 29 | We would have to see a whole change of pattern and thinking for all clubs and all players in April . |
| 30 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |