Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't about to miss the parade , and went on to see the whole event , and photographed it — all the red flags , the guns , the cannons , the missiles , everything , including Black September Group marching . |
| 2 | During the hunts , females are left on their own lot , and so to enable the whole group to re-form after the hunt , the two sexes have to co-ordinate their separate movements , staying within calling distance of each other . |
| 3 | ‘ It was hard for Satan alone to mislead the whole world , ’ declared the grandson of the BeSHT , Nachman of Bratislava , in one of his more caustic diatribes , ‘ so he appointed rabbis in different locations . ’ |
| 4 | More than once Lina arranged the time and place of an interview , booked the plane , agreed the meals , models , set stylists and hairdressers only to find the whole thing suddenly cancelled . |
| 5 | Was n't that the time when the Bank of England stepped in to avoid the whole City suffering ? |
| 6 | Indeed , a minister may even ‘ expressly desire to keep out of the affairs of quangos within the ambit of his department , arguing that to behave otherwise is merely to frustrate the whole purpose of this way of organising public services ’ ( Johnson , 1979 , p. 389 ) . |
| 7 | Ensure that the axes are long enough to cover the whole range , or be prepared to omit points from the graph . |
| 8 | They 've got gunpowder enough to keep the whole battery firing for ever . |
| 9 | Representatives from two schools commented that the Minor award was not enough to revitalise the whole school . |
| 10 | Good colour snaps are fine as long as you get the building in focus , take it in sunlight rather than shadow and stand back far enough to ensure the whole building is in the picture . |
| 11 | For Chambers , his witness of doubtful character , he found this Nixonian endorsement : ‘ Is it not better to tell the whole truth in the end than to refuse , as Hiss did , to tell it at all ? ’ |
| 12 | We managed to persuade him not to perform the whole work during the wedding ceremony . |
| 13 | Lord C had said she 'd borne them with stoicism , but looking back she realised she 'd been disappointed not to receive the whole dozen . |
| 14 | But as she waited an obstinately persistent sound filled her head , drove itself from ear to ear , settled over her eyes and seeped through to fill the whole arena of her cranium . |
| 15 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |
| 16 | I think we had to accept that the first programmes were just to get the whole thing working really erm . |
| 17 | Good subjects are large cichlids or catfish , since the camera needs to be further away to capture the whole fish , making it easier to focus and giving greater depth of field . |
| 18 | You 've got ta say something interesting quite early on and just to bring the whole conversation to where you want it to be . |
| 19 | The camera comes between her and the audience and allows her not to tell the whole story . |
| 20 | Needing a native speaker urgently to revise the whole job in their offices , they called on SEL to help . |
| 21 | The Wilson Committee was set up to investigate the whole question of the provision of funds for industry and trade . |
| 22 | In the summer , the solar system should provide all the heat necessary ; at other times of the year , some ‘ topping-up ’ will be necessary and , in the winter , precautions have to be taken not only to prevent the solar part of the system freezing ( antifreeze is usually added to the water in this part of the system ) but also to prevent the whole system working in reverse which would mean that the domestic hot water cylinder was heating the solar collector ! |
| 23 | Moreover , instead of these cash limits being set one year ahead they are now to cover the whole planning period ; that is , three years ahead . |
| 24 | Other fields that we 've been working on particularly are the educational field and the content and scale of education , it 's link with the unemployment problem and it would take too long really to list the whole range . |
| 25 | He was impatient now to conclude the whole scene . |
| 26 | It is better to learn a small section thoroughly than to surface-read it and then have to go back to do the whole thing again . |
| 27 | Later in the day it will take less than five minutes simultaneously to drop the Whole group , with their stores , into Safra from fifteen C-130 Hercules aircraft . |
| 28 | I swooped it so that on each pass it caught the top of the dam wall with one corner , gradually producing a nick in the sand barrier which the water was able to flow through , quickly going on to overwhelm the whole dam and the sand-house village beneath . |
| 29 | Or did British intelligence produce an unidentifiable corpse simply to bring the whole affair to an end ? |
| 30 | If the regional scheme is successful , it will presumably be extended to other parts of the country , in which case it will do much to increase the viability of the Dip.HE , though , of course , its implications go well beyond it , potentially to embrace the whole field of recurrent education . |