Example sentences of "and a whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After four hours of banging rave tunes and a whole consignment of illegal drugs , they 're in the mood to party . |
| 2 | Defence spending was planned to rise by 5.1 per cent , the lowest percentage rise since 1960 , and a whole percentage point lower than the previous year 's increase . |
| 3 | Glance down Impasse St Jacques , where there 's a cluttered violin workshop and a whole gallery stuffed full with wooden gods from the Congo . |
| 4 | Sadly , though , the series in Pakistan was marred by umpiring controversy , and a whole day in the Faisalabad Test was lost as Shakoor Rana and Mike Gatting allegedly threw insults at each other after the England captain was warned for incommoding the batsman . |
| 5 | It can be a lonely , isolated life on a farm and a whole day often passes without meeting or talking to anyone . |
| 6 | Above them , on the platform , stood the General and a whole row of Commissioners , the territorial leaders of the Army . |
| 7 | The patient 's problem is that he has joined a group of unfamiliar people , some of whom , the patients , are present all the time ; others , the nurses , are in his vicinity for some of the time ; and a whole variety of others appear ‘ to come and go ’ . |
| 8 | However , this is not generally the case , and a whole variety of GUIs have developed , each adopting a slightly different subset of these principles as guidelines . |
| 9 | ‘ He had guns and armour , and the God of the Catholics behind him , and a whole army of dissident Indian auxiliaries in support . |
| 10 | Over ten years the market philosophy had undoubtedly penetrated the social services , education , the professions , and a whole range of public institutions . |
| 11 | Besides that , Soviet troops had withdrawn from Afghanistan and a whole range of nuclear missiles had been destroyed . |
| 12 | Above your head is probably a vast amount of space , which can be used for storage and a whole range of activities — the loft . |
| 13 | We need to be reasonable in our demands as parents are also under pressure to dig in their pockets for spare cash to support brownies , cubs , clubs , churches and a whole range of other worthy causes . |
| 14 | While the new paradigm in the schools sector is information skills ( incorporating library skills , communication skills , study skills , and a whole range of learning skills ) , the new concept has yet to be translated into higher education in any significant way . |
| 15 | Established in 1985 Red Water Arts is recognised for its work in a variety of community and educational settings using drama , music and a whole range of visual arts . |
| 16 | The Fair , which runs from 6–16 June , brings together under one roof more than 300 of the best antique dealers from all over Britain , specialising in fine furniture , ceramics , silver , textiles , jewellery and a whole range of antiques . |
| 17 | The French tunnel lining plant is also at Sangatte together with assembly shops , storage facilities , a water pumping and treatment station and a whole range of other facilities . |
| 18 | These were the people most at risk from foreign agricultural policies , the failure of banks , under-capitalisation , the closure of foreign trade , tariff barriers and a whole range of xenophobic fears . |
| 19 | There was a gala day in the school grounds , with a brass band , and a whole range of events . |
| 20 | YOU 'LL find food for all tastes and a whole range of shops and stores . |
| 21 | There are processes described for perception , immediate recall , attention , short-term memory , recognition and a whole range of rules whereby recall occurs . |
| 22 | Brothels , gaming-houses , and unlicensed ale-houses were sought out and closed down , a strict Puritan Sunday was enforced , the much-loved festivities associated with Christmas , Whitsuntide , and Mayday were outlawed , and a whole range of rural sports was banned . |
| 23 | In-service courses proliferated , resource centres were established , publishers began to produce materials and a whole range of diagnostic tests was made available . |
| 24 | If it is taken to include distribution , financial and business services , government , and a whole range of what are defined as miscellaneous services — which incorporate such disparate occupations as garage mechanics and actors — the sector accounted for just under half the labour force and a similar share of output by the early 1970s . |
| 25 | The central importance attached to the inefficiency of labour markets is either so generally abstract as to have little or no practical application or so partial as to ignore the necessary interdependence between labour supply and a whole range of institutions . |
| 26 | As articulated forcefully by Trotsky in Their Morality and Ours , this imperative seems to permit the liquidation of counter-revolutionary social classes , of one generation for another , and a whole range of outrageous Machiavellian manoeuvres , provided the ends of the proletariat or communism are advanced . |
| 27 | Deindustrialization , defined as the declining relative importance of manufacturing , brings changes in the kinds of places many people work in , changes in the skills which are demanded of them , in the unions they belong to ( or do not ) , and a whole range of other social changes consequent upon the shifting balance of employment opportunities . |
| 28 | It involves sharply cut three-piece suits , or carefully pressed Italian pastel casuals for the male , and a whole range of feminine clobber in similar icecream pastels for women , including the down-market fashion accent of summer 1984 : totally impractical white fabric ankle boots . |
| 29 | Writers and actors , and then designers , were joined by cameramen , sound recordists , editors and a whole range of people with ancillary skills . |
| 30 | This excludes such important matters as the threatened global environmental crisis , personified by the ‘ doom-watch ’ school of thought , and a whole range of peculiarly urban problems relating to redevelopment , transport and industrial pollution . |