Example sentences of "be [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 31 | And I would rather be yours than anybody 's in the whole world ! |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | How significant do you think the warming of relations between Britain and Iran is in the whole scenario in the Gulf ? |
| 34 | So the message given to young people is on the whole negative : science and technology often create more problems than they solve . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | It was like the whole audience was eating celery . |
| 38 | The sign was in the whole thing , not just the unexpected ferocity of the buck I 'd killed , but also in my furious , almost unthinking response and the fate of the innocent rabbits who took the brunt of my wrath . |