Example sentences of "to the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense . |
| 2 | Incentive payments to staff in the form of a bonus relating to the whole firm or department are possible and where used should be made in respect of a known period of time or on completion of certain jobs . |
| 3 | But Olson nevertheless slides from these precise comments into grander generalisation and appears to attribute the characteristics associated with specific exponents of the essay technique to writing as such and to the whole culture . |
| 4 | listen to the whole dialogue three times |
| 5 | There is , however , a consensus of opinion among experienced practitioners used to dealing with visually handicapped pupils and among writers concerned with the education of such children that competence in personal mobility and orientation is a prime source of safety and a great help in ensuring access to the whole campus and its various buildings and rooms . |
| 6 | In every enchaînement each step an/or pose must be given its appropriate value by way of beginning , climax and end so that its place is justified by its importance to the whole sentence . |
| 7 | As a hotel increases in size , however , the tasks have to be subdivided into separate areas of work and supervised by section heads ; and in a very large hotel ( Fig. 1.2 ) the volume of work is such that under departmental heads staff specialise in one aspect of the work only and there is little opportunity to relate their individual efforts to the whole operation . |
| 8 | ‘ The scene is so central to the whole film that Sly felt he had to take the cut to save production , ’ said a film insider . |
| 9 | It might be thought that , given their aversion to the whole terrain of culture , antiracists are generally immune to the kinds of criticisms set out above . |
| 10 | The microcosm becomes the macrocosm : the key to the whole universe may well be hidden in one hydrogen atom . |
| 11 | Anaximander and Heraclitus extended the concept of justice to the whole universe : |
| 12 | In the special theory of relativity it is assumed that a single inertial frame can be applied to the whole Universe , but at the cost of neglecting acceleration ! |
| 13 | It felt to her as if they had just unlocked the key to the whole universe , but she had a feeling that was not what he meant . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , here are two remarks by Wordsworth which can be applied to Alice Fell as well as to the whole problem : |
| 15 | Some little oddity of behaviour or event which , when he recalls it , will prove the key to the whole problem . |
| 16 | The sub-problem must have certain properties if the correct solution to the whole problem is still to be found . |
| 17 | We 're back to the whole problem |
| 18 | The court said that whether the breach was a repudiatory one depended on two factors , ( i ) the ratio the breach bore quantitatively to the whole contract ( ii ) the likelihood of the breach being repeated in later instalments . |
| 19 | There is no official index to the whole scheme , although an index has been published . |
| 20 | And when you the schools , the shops in that area , I 'm not only surprised it was n't considered in the first place , but secondly , it is the key to the whole scheme and er although I 'm quite happy to move the erm recommendation , I must say that I have a very very deep concern regarding Road . |
| 21 | The question of how to discipline children has always been of central importance to the whole enterprise of bringing them up . |
| 22 | On the surface these seem to be very serious objections to the whole enterprise of analysing international relations by means of a general theory . |
| 23 | The second sub-sample is wet sieved with sand retention for drying and weighing while the mud fraction , whose proportional contribution to the whole sediment is now known , remains in a receptacle for further analysis . |
| 24 | The ‘ scourge of criminal violence ’ was , Whitelaw argued , a danger to the whole framework of consent and legality on which the political institutions of British society were based . |
| 25 | The study units therefore incorporate a core of information and practice relevant to the whole field of design and a choice of projects related to specific aspects of design for Visual Communication , Environment or Product . |
| 26 | ‘ He is looking really well but obviously lacks a recent run and will be conceding weight to the whole field , ’ said trainer James Fanshawe . |
| 27 | In truth there are liquid acrylics of varying viscosity and therefore suitable for different uses , but the one thing which they all have in common is that they open up acrylic work to the whole field of design and illustration and offer other useful techniques for the fine artist . |
| 28 | How often are they raised by adding on a small , discrete area to existing topics ( for example , ‘ Women in … ’ ) — thereby leaving the rest untouched — rather than acknowledging that feminism has generated a challenge to the whole field ? ( see BSA , 1986 , for a discussion of teaching in higher education ) . |
| 29 | There , the North Sea Ferry makes travel to the Continent easy , and to the west of the city the M62 provides the rapid access to the whole motorway system . |
| 30 | When a flow is self-preserving , a description of the turbulent motion developed from measurements at one station can be applied to the whole flow . |