Example sentences of "[to-vb] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should be a need to reorganize the whole time-scale of a current c , merely to fit the software into the work schedule . |
| 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 | At one point it looked like we 'd have to restore the whole room . |
| 4 | The Association is paying for the work , expected to cost in the region of £5,500 ( $9,600 ) from donations worldwide and has also launched an appeal for funds to restore the whole altar . |
| 5 | He delighted to have the point examined , turned over , scrutinised , probed and polished , until it was sharp and gleaming and ready to demolish the whole controversy . |
| 6 | It is perhaps doubtful whether the Nordic states were really prepared to go the whole way to a common market . |
| 7 | For those intending to go the whole way and get their desktop publishing typeset the question of fonts and matching width tables really does cause problems . |
| 8 | Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA . |
| 9 | One is to go the whole atomist hog and turn women too into full-time contracting egoists , no less exploitative and solitary than the males . |
| 10 | A self-proclaimed poineer and the ‘ first man to go the whole hog ’ with his business , the Wild Boar Company , he was all for setting the strictest standards of breeds , offering a product aimed at the ‘ luxury end ’ of the market . |
| 11 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
| 12 | Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this . |
| 13 | Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages . |
| 14 | Mortified by the twist in his sobriety , George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society . |
| 15 | That particular proposal was of interest only to the limited number of countries which have huissiers de justice , which prompted Professor Graveson when the issue was discussed in 1960 to express the traditional preference of the British Government for bilateral conventions , but the topic attracted more general interest and it was decided to re-examine the whole range of possibilities . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Roscoe 's ambition was to drain the whole wetland , and to this end he organized ditching , marling , and importation from nearby Manchester of boatload upon boatload of human ordure , which was forked by hand on to the moss . |
| 18 | There will be similar trouble over the gender difference if indeed as I am suggesting — it is true that ideas about the meaning of maleness have distorted moral thinking in our culture quite deeply , so as to affect the whole concept of individuality , and thereby condition the way in which some central metaphysical issues are seen . |
| 19 | Separate from curriculum and assessment , a third element in the 1988 Act , although it affects teaching staff only indirectly , still has the potential to affect the whole future of a school . |
| 20 | But in addition to the church 's calling to be the invisible yeast leavening the whole dough and the salt savouring the whole meal , it is also called to be a light placed prominently and strategically upon a lamp-stand so as to light the whole house . |
| 21 | We 'd been told which room would be used for the meeting so we did n't have to search the whole building . |
| 22 | Since the relevant ones will be concentrated in one area of the inverted tree they can be quickly located by moving from the root downwards and along the correct branches , without ever having to search the whole database . |
| 23 | The solution suggested above allows the very low synonym levels of a multi-record bucket — in this case a track — to be combined with the CKD format of individually stored records , which makes it possible to search the whole track and retrieve only the desired record . |
| 24 | Even the article ‘ Conductor ’ in the New Grove dictionary of opera is , unfortunately , misleading : for all its caution , it attempts to paint the whole period from 1750 to Napoleon , and in doing so unjustifiably reinforces certain impressions we recall from the powerful pens of the Encyclopedists : |
| 25 | Get rid of erm you really aught not to have dark walls you really aught to have erm pale we was going to paint the whole house white . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They wear kimonos around the house ; their walls are decorated with fans , and some even learn the language — not just so as to be able to communicate with Koi farmers when they travel to Japan to buy fish , but to embrace the whole culture . |
| 28 | But he is anxious to embrace the whole city , which is why the council is sponsoring a series of 40 commissions embracing artists , musicians and playwrights . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , there does not seem to exist an accepted notion of ‘ grammatically different element ’ which is sufficiently well-defined to carry the whole burden of distinguishing lexical units . |