Example sentences of "[adv prt] a whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm going to pull down a whole pile of these things and make a nest out of them so we 'll be warm and cosy until we 're rescued from each other . ’ |
| 2 | At other times the two of them would wolf down a whole packet of After Eight mints with no apparent difficulty . |
| 3 | The sociologist of religion ( usually ) does not just plonk down a whole lot of data and let the reader make what he or she will of it . |
| 4 | So she brings in a whole candelabra and balances it on the floor . |
| 5 | The first was the arrival of the Portuguese sailors , who brought in a whole load of European and even North African musical influences , as well as early forms of the ukulele and the guitar . |
| 6 | The first area is cost behaviour analysis : assumptions with respect to how costs vary with , for example , volume of activity , provide the basis for management decision making over a whole range of issues . |
| 7 | BBC2 is giving over a whole night 's programmes to a £2 million tribute to ITV rival Granada . |
| 8 | At Naba we were overtaken by the hospital train and discovered that their food supply had run out , so we handed over a whole case of sausages and one of tinned peaches . |
| 9 | It was an interesting if much too long meeting lasting from 2pm to about 6.15pm — but interesting in that , with rather few of us there , it was a chance to range over a whole lot of issues on and off the agenda , and a chance to appreciate the efforts , interests , aspirations and voluntary input of many others — though of course they get support from their activities from their employers . |
| 10 | An Italian entrepreneur has taken over a whole department store to sell western goods in Romanian currency . |
| 11 | Sand drifts smothered the front steps , climbed walls almost to the gables , and in one place blocked off a whole street . |
| 12 | but the breakage of isolated molars is divided between chipping , where single cusps or ends of salient angles of the tooth are broken , and splitting , where the break runs vertically through the crown , separating off a whole section of cusp and root or a whole lobe of a microtine tooth . |
| 13 | The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’ |
| 14 | Welcome back : Coming up shortly , the ghostwatchers who 've taken on a whole houseful of spirits . |
| 15 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 16 | You could make up a whole story . |
| 17 | It was this — the politics of culture — that implicitly governed the Channel 4 debate , opening up a whole spectrum of discussion widely at variance with the concerns dominating White ( Western European and American ) feminist film theory . |
| 18 | One social worker wrote : ‘ [ The ] young person enjoyed completing [ the ] questionnaire and it was a very useful tool for bringing up a whole range of issues from the very practical ( needing to arrange visits to the dentist/optician ) to the very complex and emotional . ’ |
| 19 | The aim of both the part-time education and further extended full-time study , on grants , would be to acquire qualifications on a module basis , so as to build up a whole range of technical qualifications . |
| 20 | ( For example , in Britain it is now possible with the right kind of TV set to call up a whole range of information onto the TV screen . |
| 21 | Such a widening of perspectives obviously leaves no place for the by now out-dated claim concerning the objective nature of linguistic analysis , but it opens up a whole range of stimulating opportunities for the exploration of the ways texts function in society . |
| 22 | At a secondhand shop they bought him a pair of rather tight jeans and also acquired a metal detector , opening up a whole range of possibilities . |
| 23 | Multi-party cases are notoriously difficult to analyse as individual cases benefit from standardisation , but generic work can take up a whole caseload . |
| 24 | Butt up a whole panel against the skirting and mark off where it overlaps the last fixed panels . |
| 25 | The work was less skilled than it had been formerly since no women made up a whole garment , but rather worked on one fragment of the process , for instance sewing up side-seams all day , every day . |
| 26 | As the Allies had discovered in all their abortive offensives , however wide the front might be there would always be a devilish machine gun on a flank that could hold up a whole division ; broaden the front to eliminate that machine gun , and inevitably there would be yet another on the new flank . |
| 27 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |
| 28 | And erm well we wrapped up a whole pile of paper for paper paper recycling and erm we mushed it up and the best of the stuff we put in the liquidizer and erm we put it in a tank and dyed left some stuff as it were and we dyed some other stuff green . |
| 29 | It is both a pretty and well-organized place in its own right and one from which you can drive profitably off in every direction , up a whole sheaf of good valleys and into some ravishing high country . |
| 30 | PART Two of Merlin 's fabulous WWF Gold Series Collector Cards hits the shops next week — and thanks to the Daily Mirror , you can pick up a whole pack of eight cards , worth 30p , absolutely free . |