Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 2 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 3 | A key aspect for nurses , in particular , but for RMI , overall , is that progress be made on the concept of collaborative care plans whereby the whole team agree a pattern of treatment and therefore resources that will be needed by a particular patient . |
| 4 | Wanting to dare is his opposite number to the underground man 's wanting to want , because whereas wanting to want holds fast to the earlier novel 's metaphysical spareness and abstraction , wanting to dare opens up the whole huge circumstance of the murder itself , the thing that in fact gets done . |
| 5 | Takes out the whole aim of the play . |
| 6 | The Pacific Plate , for instance , underlies almost the whole Pacific Ocean whereas a number of minor plates within the continents have an area of less than 1x106km 2 . |
| 7 | Cutting down on the slush and the philosophy Mann plays almost the whole film as a breathless series of attacks , escapes , sieges , fights , battles , deaths and triumphs . |
| 8 | Farber sums up the whole process : |
| 9 | The stark juxtaposition of these two statements sums up the whole dilemma facing arts teachers , and consequently illustrates the central issue I want to discuss in this chapter . |
| 10 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |
| 11 | Perhaps the chorus of the English people , which its wide-arching melody and plangent harmonising , sums up the whole work . |
| 12 | It seems to be referring to a document that that that sets out the whole total quality process as far as the commission is concerned . |
| 13 | ‘ Does not the whole ensemble speak to you of imperial confidence , a global network of industry ? ’ |
| 14 | Well does n't the whole unit come out ? |
| 15 | It measures some 205 by 30 feet and extends almost the whole width of the building . |
| 16 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 17 | It leaves out the whole class of voluntary obligations where no such change occurs , such as promises which are not relied upon , nor expected to be relied upon . |
| 18 | ‘ This may have seemed like a good idea when the rink was being built because it should give long term durability , but when a problem like this arises then the whole rink has to be closed and dug up . |