Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the whole " in BNC.

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1 Also , it could give my guests time to go off the whole idea .
2 But it 's also normal to go off the whole idea .
3 Suppose , father being impoverished and son having come into money , the father had required the creditor to sue for the whole sum ?
4 The late Frank Howes showed an understanding of the problems racing a choreographer when he wrote : ‘ Every dance has its own rhythm , just as every dancer has an inborn sense of measuring time because each movement must be felt to flow through the whole body as well as the space in which it moves .
5 To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically .
6 You may be better advised to start again , possibly finding your candidates by a different method , than risk the problems of engaging an inadequate candidate and being faced with all the disruption of having to go through the whole process at a later stage anyway .
7 It is possible now to go through the whole liberal arts course at Stanford University without ever reading Shakespeare ( a DWEM ) and there are many musems in the US now which can not contemplate an exhibition without first measuring it up against the PC yardstick .
8 The difference between this and the two previous outcomes is that under this procedure the agency does not have to go through the whole decision-making process again .
9 It took her two weeks to go through the whole house — ten working days .
10 I think that the hurdles that they have got to get over to get books are a barrier … the children have to go through the whole Dewey decimal system which is complicated .
11 Have you do you think it it might be better for some of the brighter ones to stretch them , to go through the whole lot do you know what I mean ?
12 She began to go through the whole thing in her prayer and then realized that God of course would know anyway , so she simply asked if it could be that Timothy Gedge was possessed by devils .
13 Anyway , he always told himself that this would be the last time ; this time he would find some really good job in which he would get on really well and his talents would be appreciated and people would like him and he would surprise all his Tormentors , so there would be no reason to go through the whole fraught and sapping business of signing on again .
14 Much more data are collected than it is possible to publish , and access to this additional information is just not possible — indeed its existence may not be known or recorded , with the result that future researchers and revisers have to go through the whole data collection procedure again each time .
15 It has been much easier to give an overdraft than to go through the whole process of studying a plan for the business and coming up with longer term loan financing .
16 It may be necessary to go through the whole file in order to find how much the project has slipped altogether .
17 It may be necessary to go through the whole file in order to find how much the project has slipped altogether .
18 I see no reason for us actually to go through the whole pros and cons .
19 Now I 'm not gon na be prepared to go through the whole business and then find them say oh sorry you 're wrong .
20 Mr Clarke seems to want to go through the whole er litigation process , what do you think about er his decision ?
21 It is not impossible , too , that an overarching agency with responsibility for quality assurance will eventually be established to perform for the whole system something of the role performed by the Council for National Academic Awards for the public sector .
22 It is clear that their devotion to The Wedding Present was too strong , and they did not have the resources to see through the whole project .
23 Abortive attempts in our time to shuffle off the whole experience and make light of its impact have only begun comparatively recently to attract the attention of psycho-analysts .
24 I immediately knew that I would have to write about the whole experience , and that what I would write would be illuminated with sentimentality .
25 We do not always have to work through the whole process though , because the patterns for two , three , four or more symmetry-related modes are reproducible from one molecule to another .
26 To this man he entrusted six wagonloads of treasure , and sent him off to wander over the whole wide world , looking for a twin brother and sister , Stoja and Stojane .
27 By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level .
28 Whilst physical infirmity may make physical care of great significance to the old person and mental infirmity may limit their capacity to give and receive other kinds of care , the efforts we make to relate to the whole person are critical if we are to avoid the stigmatising and depersonalising processes which insult the integrity of the old person .
29 Since you wo n't tell me , I suppose I 'll just have to plod through the whole book . ’
30 I do n't know whether you want to talk about the whole area of our operation
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