Example sentences of "set [adv prt] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Home Secretary spends many hours conscientiously reading background papers which set out the whole history of a single police officer 's alleged offences , sometimes in a bundle of papers an inch thick , in order that justice and equity may be done . |
| 2 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 3 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 4 | Rourke had set up the whole annoying episode . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And it was in trying for another way that the CIA let in people like Monzer al-Kassar and , without meaning to , set up the whole Lockerbie scenario . |