Example sentences of "and the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scattered cheers answered him , big Mary gave a ‘ Heeuggh ! ’ like a dancer , and the whole throng began to move along the road westwards , past the dark silent façade of the inn , the equally silent church and manse , towards the gates of Castle Menzies . |
| 2 | We ‘ pull well together ’ ; and the whole secret of the enterprise is its variety , and that each part complements the other . |
| 3 | Here we have the glancing metal and the freshness of original work , but besides the small scale the skirt is strongly broken by the left knee and the whole treatment is looser and freer than in the Hestia . |
| 4 | All along Park Lane they backed on to Hyde Park , and the whole space between the Ritz Hotel and Berkeley Square was taken up by just two very grand ones . |
| 5 | What it did not want the public to know was that Blake had been authorised to do shady deals with Russian intelligence , including the betrayal of MI6 agents in East Germany , and the whole plan had backfired because he was a spy already . |
| 6 | In such cases , all variations are symmetrical either side of the spine , and the whole plan has to be worked out very carefully before any nylon is cut . |
| 7 | If not , any that survived could simply be posted back to their parent units and the whole scheme could be rapidly forgotten . |
| 8 | On the other hand they have n't got the landfills and the whole scheme that the west has developed and they I mean it 's a health hazard meanwhile . |
| 9 | And the whole fluting process may have to be repeated to refine the design . |
| 10 | Harry had tensed at the criticism , but Scarface laughed and the whole bar started roaring at Bull 's subtlety and wit . |
| 11 | With Sir John Leveson , he was ordered to set up provision for the poor and to enforce the order of Privy Council of 1598 , and by this order they were both assessed in the Parish of Halling , Sir John for 7s 4d and Lambarde 6s and the whole total for Halling being £4 5s 8d . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the bank accounts of the firm were blocked , its workers were not being paid , thousands of turkeys were dying of starvation , and the whole enterprise was in danger of destruction . |
| 13 | If he lay there until the morning , assuming he did not pass out , or drown , or spew up and choke to death in the meantime , he would be found when the boys came in to wash ; the humiliation would be unbearable and the whole story would be all over the school by breakfast . |
| 14 | She put a motherly arm around her shoulder , and the whole story , except the part about being almost certain she was pregnant , came spilling out . |
| 15 | The two are joined together with clay and the whole unit is heated in the furnace . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And the whole system 's supposed to be funded by abolishing Child Benefit and the tax allowances people get for their children . ’ |
| 18 | The strong currents in the area keep down aquatic plants which might foul the blades , and the whole system has less impact on the environment than the paraphernalia of a conventional hydroelectric station would . |
| 19 | The disk array has five SCSI-2 channels and the whole system starts at $35,000 . |
| 20 | The codings , it says , will be changed monthly and the whole system will be introduced by 1 May . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | The level of contribution was to be fixed at a level within the reach of every employed person , with benefits paid at a ‘ national minimum income for subsistence ’ , and the whole system co-ordinated by a new Ministry of Social Security . |
| 23 | The soul 's deepest will is to preserve its own integrity , against the mind and the whole mass of disintegrating forces ’ ( Studies in Classic American Literature , 185 ) . |
| 24 | Blows were exchanged between members of the audience somewhere at the front and the whole scene developed into a riot , with others not wishing to get involved in a fight scrambling for the exit . |
| 25 | And the whole scene was so , well , banal . |
| 26 | Moping around Meadowlands last year when Mario 's son was racing and the old man was too and the whole scene was as unglamorous as the Jersey flatlands can be , the burgers blazing on wet barbecues , Karl Haas 's cigar smouldering briefly in the foreground , it was as if Mario had brought a whole world of his own into the paddock , a world he 'd always had , that was completely self-sufficient and had a cleaner , friendlier air . |
| 27 | He glared at me , quite beside himself with rage , and the whole scene seemed so absurd and nothing to do with anything that had really happened , that I began to laugh in a wild , helpless way , snorting through my nose . |
| 28 | The boats are blue , the nets are black , and the whole scene does remind me a little of the Adriatic , even if not precisely of Venice . |
| 29 | Until the cars moving along the university 's peripheral roads were silverfish and the whole scene was dappled with low-lying cloud . |
| 30 | Whores , dirty bookshops , Chinese restaurants — and the whole scene manipulated by the invisible wires of this all-powerful secret monopoly ! |