Example sentences of "[to-vb] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have to carry the whole piece in my head . ’ |
| 32 | Sergeant Davis had managed to conduct the whole conversation nicely balanced on an edge between politeness and aggression . |
| 33 | Those with less internal resources are likely to contract the whole project out . |
| 34 | If one thinks dialectically , so Hegel believed , it was possible , for the it was possible , he had done it , it 's set out in the Encyclopedia , his Encyclopedia , to see the whole system of reality as one articulated , logical system in which everything has its orderly and appointed place . |
| 35 | You 're impatient to see the whole valley turned upside down and shaken to get him out . ’ |
| 36 | It was the latter 's son Joseph , now about 55 , who lived to see the whole enterprise brought to a halt by the hostilities . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | When it comes to improvising you should be able to see the whole scale over the entire neck of your instrument , thereby providing total freedom on your bass . |
| 39 | SCRAM found itself caught in the middle between those who felt nonviolent protest was the only way and those who really wanted to see the whole place go up in smoke . |
| 40 | The first autumn mists made it difficult to see the whole length of the reach . |
| 41 | From the air she was able to see the whole length of the valley and she could only guess at its size . |
| 42 | Novels are much more difficult to place and from a new writer , publishers normally want to see the whole book . |
| 43 | It is instructive to see the whole House of Commons present . |
| 44 | As regards degree courses themselves , some are broader than others , and in effect provide a foundation for subsequent specialized postgraduate education or training ; indeed , it may be more accurate in some cases to see the whole process as a four-year not three-year one , consisting of three foundation years followed by a specialized professional post-graduate year . |
| 45 | All at once Matilda was able to see the whole situation with absolute clarity . |
| 46 | Remember you need to see the whole face and expression , including the eyes of the speaker . |
| 47 | In a way it functioned for us like window shopping : a random five minute slice of a feature would enable us to decide whether to see the whole thing at the Shoals , Princess or Majestic in Florence , when it resurfaced there . |
| 48 | Erm I , I 'd like to see what Peter would like to see actually , I think we ought to see the whole thing done in one fell swoop . |
| 49 | It seems exactly right to see the whole family sitting on a sofa together as Joseph meets his new sister at the end . |
| 50 | He put the phone down and turned round to see the whole family looking at him , open-mouthed . |
| 51 | ‘ I think a real friend is someone you do n't have to see the whole time . |
| 52 | He was not persuaded by the argument that the only way the inquiry could be properly conducted was to see the whole picture before making any final decision on an individual case . |
| 53 | But just as the narrator has difficulty in piecing together the fragments of her story , so we as readers are never able to see the whole picture . |
| 54 | The blueprints we draw up about the environment we inhabit and our place in it are sketched in outline when we are very young and least able to see the whole picture . |
| 55 | The last factor is important in that if one is prepared to lose the whole storage , there is no ‘ need ’ for a fire protection system at all . |
| 56 | I was glad that I had not attempted to plan the whole programme in advance , as the Workshop developed under its own momentum , using and Communicative Grammar of English as a text and ground-plan . |
| 57 | I will try to enjoy the whole weekend and with everyone 's help I have set myself a target to raise 1,000 for CLIC . |
| 58 | They seemed to enjoy the whole thing a hundred times more than your average blasé concert-goer . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 60 | He seems to treat the whole incident almost like a scientific experiment , albeit a deadly serious one , with great precision and planning and a kind of coldness . |