Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a telephone network , for example , if one key element breaks down and the whole system immediately crashes you have a ‘ catastrophic failure ’ , but if , instead , there is simply a progressive deterioration leading , after a period , to the same ultimate end , silence , then you are experiencing ‘ graceful degradation ’ . |
| 2 | Little Billy climbed onto his back , and as the great swan spread his wings and flew away , the whole forest , not just the tree they were in but the whole forest from end to end , came alive with the cheering of a million Minpins . |
| 3 | A piece of elastic is wound around one end ; a banger strip is pulled through and the whole lot is stuck down . |
| 4 | It just went off and the whole place shook . |
| 5 | If you 'd wanted to separate off your paras , you 'd put in a full size slug because it was easy to make up and the whole thing was absolutely modular erm but perhaps it would have looked better if it had been A four , or you know , Swiss in some way . |
| 6 | One evening the stars came out and the whole sky shone as clear as polished jet . |
| 7 | As history showed , despite the engineering skill deployed and the excellence of the final product , the sums did n't work out and the whole company fell . |
| 8 | It only needs someone to knock a window out and the whole thing could go up in flames . ’ |
| 9 | Nancy used one of those in it and she just lifted it out and the whole lot shattered all over |
| 10 | When I thought I 'd run out of things to say I asked the front two rows to move back and the whole place started buzzing . |