Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light will be left on for the whole time . |
| 2 | The irritating thing is , he could not be bothered to put the sandwich down during the whole scene , and when she surfaced , she found his lip dripping with tomato seeds . |
| 3 | So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week . |
| 4 | Well here 's one man who is very definitely erm upside down about the whole thing , if I can just er tip him over a little bit there , could you , no I 'll try that one again will I |
| 5 | Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it . |
| 6 | In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body . |
| 7 | Faith No More are a phenomenon : a stadium rock band who really do n't fit in with the whole rock grandeur . |
| 8 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |
| 9 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |
| 10 | If share dealers beat a rapid retreat this morning , Bond 's bankers — already at the end of their tether — may be forced to move in on the whole group . |
| 11 | Back at the office , Schellenberg changed into a light grey flannel suit in the bathroom , speaking through the other door to Ilse Huber as he dressed , filling her in on the whole business . |
| 12 | The investment weightings of the portfolio have continued to show an overwhelming bias towards publishing , which has accounted for 75% or over of the whole portfolio since June 1991 . |
| 13 | She just could n't wait to go through with the whole messy , life-destroying business . |
| 14 | Although these broader issues spill over into the whole question of extending the notion of the sociolinguistic variable into the domain of syntactic analysis , they are relevant to data collection because they often entail difficulties in obtaining sufficient quantities of a specific type of data . |
| 15 | Here , everyone had been friendly , and the difference carried through to the whole club . |
| 16 | But I would want a constant dialogue , through various means of communication , to learn about what is going on throughout the whole constituency . |
| 17 | It was rather a coincidence that she was wearing a dark blue guernsey exactly like Laura 's , with a neck which necessitated the same blindfold struggle to get it off About the whole incident Richard felt no dissatisfaction and certainly no regret . |
| 18 | There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income . |
| 19 | I 'd have thought any normal thief would make off with the whole bag . |
| 20 | Valves are fitted in the hot and cold water supplies so that the water can be cut off from the whole system or from individual branches . |
| 21 | I am well aware of the anxiety of people in Plymouth to get on with the whole business of the release and development of Ministry of Defence land . |
| 22 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 23 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 24 | There are three basic considerations : ( 1 ) the need to avoid the consequences of a dissolution and winding up of the whole business ; ( 2 ) the need to define the circumstances in which leaving the partnership is permitted or made compulsory ; and ( 3 ) the need to anticipate the financial and administrative consequences of the departure of members of the firm . |
| 25 | He was fed up with the whole situation , and all Francesca 's family . |
| 26 | I was just fed up with the whole situation . |
| 27 | Carrington was directed to a nearby farmhouse where ‘ a tall , dark German airman had been arrested at the sharp end of a pitchfork ’ to find only another crowd of excited neighbours and a labourer called Davie Maclean who was getting fed up with the whole affair . |
| 28 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 29 | The government 's own team have recognised that morale in teaching is low and that the position this year is significantly worse than last , yet the government have for this year ignored the findings of that particular report and it 's all tied up with the whole issue of pay , workload etc .. |
| 30 | They felt they were the first two up in the whole world , like Adam and Eve . |