Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Rail insist the whole problem though regrettable , will be ironed out within nine months . |
| 2 | NATURALLY , BOTH Jim and Fruitbat have the wit and honesty to carry the whole affair and actually make a go of the potentially over-sanitised ‘ indie ’ event . |
| 3 | When occasionally they asked her what was the marketing strategy or the business plan and she said , openly , that there never had been one , her patent naturalness and honesty made the whole thing appear even more of a fairy story . |
| 4 | Ensuring that the connector is exactly perpendicular to the ribbon cable place the whole assembly into a vice and slowly squeeze the parts together . |
| 5 | Hard , dry cough racks the whole chest . |
| 6 | Her interesting talk and demonstration made the whole operation look so easy that members were inspired to go home and make their own . |
| 7 | The deal covers the whole UK mainland , and was greeted in the City as an important breakthrough . |
| 8 | And the Department of Trade and Industry supervises the whole scheme by approving the bodies that operate it , which effectively means approving their rules and mode of operation as well ; so it 's under government control even if the government is not involved on a day-to-day basis . |
| 9 | To succeed in a claim based on adverse possession the appellant would have to show a continuing intention to exclude the whole world from the premises including the legal owner … |
| 10 | John Pitt , joint managing director of Anchor International , accused the protestors of objecting to the licence in a bid to scupper the whole scheme . |
| 11 | The duvet symbolizes the whole wretchedness of leaving , so I slump at the table , pulling a long face and blowing ripples in the surface of my coffee which has grown cold anyway . |
| 12 | Finally I make a 70 per cent reduction copy of my dick , because the highland reduction setting used the whole area of the glass that my dick could reach , and so I captured something vaguely obscene looking , even if the total overall scale was reduced . |
| 13 | ‘ Has there ever been an ecumenical Council ’ , he asks , ‘ which was not a way of self-renewal through an encounter with the Risen Jesus , the glorious and immortal King , whose light illumines the whole Church for the salvation , joy and glory of all peoples ? ’ |
| 14 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 15 | It says people were turning again to the old tried and true spices of Guilt and Feeling Dirty and Furtiveness And Stuff in a frantic attempt to resurrect the whole sad affair . |
| 16 | Hallowell was in effect establishing the whole field of inquiry with which this book is concerned . |
| 17 | Thus many third and fourth generation computers provide a range of facilities ( such as several data-types ) in an attempt to cover the whole spectrum of applications in one design . |
| 18 | The Large English Atlas ( serially produced with Bowen 1749–60 ) was the most important county atlas since Elizabethan times and the first real attempt to cover the whole country at large scale . |
| 19 | The Institute , therefore , seeks in its educational programme to cover the whole business activity involved from drawing board to prompt delivery , payment received , an after-sales service established and , hopefully , a repeat order on the way . |
| 20 | On Sept. 2 the Constitutional Council ( i.e. court ) ruled that the law promulgated on June 24 to allow ratification [ see p. 38942 ] was constitutional despite a case brought in mid-August by Pasqua and 69 other senators alleging unconstitutionality on various counts including that of the Danish referendum result rendering the whole process invalid . |
| 21 | The Delivery Team will be responsible for ensuring that information about the Compact permeates the whole community through regular newsletters and press releases , as well as through public meetings . |
| 22 | Yet as long as France and Germany remain committed to it , the programme to give the whole European market a non-inflationary money still has bite . |
| 23 | The tragedy touched the whole community . |
| 24 | Put simply , ‘ TFTO ’ is an attempt to illustrate the whole development of human thought and culture in a double album of quasi-classical gonzo rock ( though Yes head honcho Jon Anderson puts it a whole lot more verbosely in his very silly liner notes ) . |
| 25 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 26 | Ultimately the attempt to undermine the power of the Prime Minister can be portrayed as an attempt to undermine the whole system of parliamentary democracy as we know it and this will not even be considered . |
| 27 | They cover everything from rats running about the roof to astronomic insurance charges ; from a gale removing the whole roof to the discovery that there is a two-year waiting list for repairs . |
| 28 | A major change in Nissan 's plans is the intention to run the whole rally programme from Britain . |
| 29 | Grey breath in the air , snowmen on the heath , pub bores droning on about how typical it is that a few inches of snow throws the whole country into chaos when the Swiss handle metres of the stuff without missing a beat . |
| 30 | Family therapy Involving the whole family in treatment is important , particularly if there is a family trait of obesity . |