Example sentences of "of [verb] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chapter on molecular modelling dismisses much of three dimensional molecular visualisation with the comment , ‘ Besides the trivial operation of rotating the whole structure or selected substructures around a given bond ’ , and goes on to discuss comparison of molecular structures . |
| 2 | Twenty-five years covered in one volume , with four other volumes following to tell the story of 1926 alone , shows that the key problem is that of seeing the whole wood among the wealth of trees . |
| 3 | Perhaps , instead of seeing the whole operation as a put-up job , we ought to accept a changed concept of what a fifty-year-old looks like . |
| 4 | Although Tory Euro-rebels support the Government in opposing the social chapter , they are prepared to vote for it in the hope of wrecking the whole treaty . |
| 5 | As Gramsci points out ( 1971 : 260 ) , ‘ the bourgeois class poses itself as an organism in continuous movement , capable of absorbing the whole society , assimilating it to its own cultural and economic level ’ , and this would-be universalizing push provides one of the most important elements in music history of the last two hundred years . |
| 6 | At the annual meeting in 1961 there was sharp criticism of an ‘ out of date ’ programme and by 1964 there was talk of winding the whole thing up because it just could n't pay its way . |
| 7 | Well no , Mr is sort of co-ordinating the whole thing |
| 8 | You buy only the week , or weeks you want to use , at a fraction of the cost of purchasing the whole property . |
| 9 | Next April , the Information Technology Services Agency , headquartered in Lytham St Anne 's , Lancashire , will be launched with its staff of 3,000 and its job of keeping the whole benefits system electronically live . |
| 10 | Some even pointed out that job rotation , which was suggested as being a way of understanding the whole picture of a factory , was inefficient . |
| 11 | It gave her great qualms that it had been lying in the hall since the morning 's post , as if it had an atmosphere capable of permeating the whole house . |
| 12 | Molesworth might have been spurred into action by the formation of a private company by 1854 , The Whitehall & Westminster Improvement Company , for the purpose of developing the whole neighbourhood . |
| 13 | Before they parted it seemed to Sophia that he was trying to draw Ianthe aside , as if to make an assignation with her , but she gave him so little encouragement , indeed seemed almost to avoid him , that he had to be content with looking forward to the doubtful pleasure of meeting the whole party the next evening after dinner at the Trevi fountain . |
| 14 | I mean short of replacing the whole door casing which I 'm not going to do yeah . |
| 15 | At best they are guilty of ignoring the whole phylogenetic perspective on human psychology and , at worst , are frequently guilty of distorting , censoring and trivializing psychoanalytic insights . |
| 16 | Yes , and he 's trying to sort of to put a erm a picture in your mind of , of these er er specific things and here is one , here is one , they 're not all like that , however I think th this may be a very good way of er of getting the whole lot overthrown , he may be erm I mean how do you , how do you define these things ? |
| 17 | And , of course , you buy only the weeks you want to use at a fraction of the cost of buying the whole property , with all the facilities of the first class Hotel and Country Club at your disposal … |
| 18 | There was no chance now of softening that brutal negative , of erasing the whole humiliating episode from her memory . |
| 19 | But you will also remember that each of these cells is capable of holding the whole text of the New Testament and , moreover , it is gigantic when measured by the number of sophisticated machines that it contains . |
| 20 | Now if we can sort of simplify the whole thing forget about the continents and that sort of thing what happens is that the sea water is attracted , obviously not this much , but the sea water is attracted towards The sea is attracted by the moon and you end up if you like with this bulge in the sea Now what is not so easy to understand |
| 21 | Dance in all its aspects has proved capable of embracing the whole range of emotions and behaviour that emerge from a proper reading and understanding of the text . |
| 22 | A hip movement towards the swinging line will also help , but beware of moving the whole body towards the sail as this will encourage a catapult fall . |
| 23 | Instead of harvesting the whole cabbage , cut the head leaving a short stump . |
| 24 | She recalled Alain Gebrec 's warning that the edge was unstable in places ; panic threatened to take over ; she was on the point of abandoning the whole insane exercise when , almost at the very edge of the cliff , she spotted something that gleamed in the sun . |
| 25 | He should complain to the school if his son is not getting enough homework , instead of blaming the whole education system . |
| 26 | She knew that I was perfectly capable of having the whole thing made in black leatherette if left to my own devices . |
| 27 | Her father glared at her as if he suspected her of having the whole thing arranged behind his back . |
| 28 | She accused the Congress government of treating the whole Sikh community as extremists , and authorising untold atrocities . |
| 29 | The revenue on the other hand contend that the ‘ expense incurred in or in connection with ’ the provision of education for the children of the taxpayers was exactly the same as the expense incurred in or in connection with the education of all other pupils at the school and accordingly the expense of educating any one child is a proportionate part of the cost of running the whole school . |
| 30 | They were thinking of redesigning the whole office on the more modern open plan . |