Example sentences of "[is] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , he 's been happy knocking over inferior opposition and now people wonder how serious he is about the whole thing . |
| 2 | So with the particular diary system , I mean this , what I 've just said is about the whole course , but the particular diary , I would say get to grips with the diary first , and then you know , once you 're , you 're on , on , on tap with that , then get involved with the erm , project sheets and the project management forms . |
| 3 | Prices for a family of four staying in an apartment for two weeks this June start at just £287 — and that 's for the whole family ! |
| 4 | That 's for the whole weekend |
| 5 | That 's for the whole lot . |
| 6 | George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’ |
| 7 | The Speakership is for the whole House of Commons , and should not be an extension of government patronage . |
| 8 | The way to eradicate threadworms is for the whole family ( apart , possibly , from pregnant mums ) to take de-worming treatment , either an over-the-counter medication or the rather more effective prescribed preparation from your doctor . |
| 9 | At the very least he is showing us that the Christian good news is for the whole world . |
| 10 | His gift of salvation is for the whole world , it 's available , God willeth not the death of the sinner , but that all should come to repent . |
| 11 | And I would rather be yours than anybody 's in the whole world ! |
| 12 | It is in the whole couplet of A and B in which A is affected by its juxtaposition with B , and B by its juxtaposition with A. The whole is different from the sum of its parts because the parts influence or contaminate each other . |
| 13 | How significant do you think the warming of relations between Britain and Iran is in the whole scenario in the Gulf ? |
| 14 | So the message given to young people is on the whole negative : science and technology often create more problems than they solve . |
| 15 | It is operated in the same way as the trumpet , i.e. by means of three valves , and differs only from it in tone-quality ( owing to its wider bore and larger mouthpiece ) , which is on the whole rounder and less brassy than that of the trumpet . |
| 16 | So you 've got two countries next door to each other , one of which is on the whole starting into reasonably good practice , whereas the other has , although it says it has intentions of doing it , in the case of the Ivory Coast . |