Example sentences of "than the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question , therefore , is nakedly raised by this appeal , whether your Lordships are now prepared , not only to overrule , as contrary to law , the doctrine stated by Sir Edward Coke to have been laid down by all the judges of the Common Pleas in Pinnel 's Case ( 1602 ) 5 Co.Rep. 117a , in 1602 , and repeated in his note to Littleton , 344 , Co.Litt. 212b , but to treat a prospective agreement , not under seal , for satisfaction of a debt by a series of payments on account to a total amount less than the whole debt , as binding in law , provided these payments are regularly made ; the case not being one of a composition with a common debtor , agreed to , inter se , by several creditors … |
| 2 | The difficulty with any kind of platonism that claims the ontological primacy of qualities — or any kind of universals — is that in presenting its case it implicitly relies on certain assumptions about existentially unique particulars , which no sooner are made explicit than the whole platonist case is shown to be built on sand . |
| 3 | What gives this discussion an additional interest , though , is that it is incorporated into an ambitious overarching historical schema , which aims to ‘ explain' nothing less than the whole development of world music . |
| 4 | But you 're playing Russian roulette if you choose to treat cows individually , rather than the whole herd , ’ he warns . |
| 5 | Even then there were some books for which not even the critical number was enough , and nothing less than the whole text had to be sampled to determine its average readability . |
| 6 | Since one usually needs to measure emission from only a small area of the viewing field rather than the whole field , a fibre-optic probe inserted in the light path would probably be the best method , with the light-pipe output directed on to a highly sensitive photoelectric cell or photomultiplier , whose output would also have to be calibrated against some standard phosphor . |
| 7 | Instead , we will use the term ‘ subword-level orthographic-to-phonological conversion ’ to stress the fact that the unit used is smaller than the whole word but not invariably as small as the grapheme . |
| 8 | With these saws , a knob directly above the blade allows you to turn just the chuck rather than the whole body of the saw — especially useful in tight corners . |
| 9 | I can see nothing in democratic thinking which allows us to think of " the people " as anything other than the whole body of citizens , minorities as well as majorities , those who oppose and dissent as well as those who belong to the dominant majority . |
| 10 | Radar can also yield images , but whereas a radio telescope or a group of such telescopes can yield an image of an object in an analogous way to a conventional telescope , a radar pulse from the Earth can not be made narrow enough to select anything other than the whole disc of the planet , except for the Moon where small areas can be examined because of its large angular diameter . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the fact that the youth problem was being redefined in the early 1900s , led to the advocacy of new remedies which meant that the voluntary sector found itself regarded as only one part of the solution , rather than the whole solution . |
| 12 | Christian presuppositions are nothing less than the whole truth of who God is and what he has done for us . |
| 13 | The request ( 5:1 ) : this seems less than the whole truth ; but it is in the nature of a test-case , Israel had to leave Egypt in order to sacrifice because the nature of their sacrifice was offensive to the Egyptians ( 8:26 ) . |
| 14 | But we can now see that the apocalyptic interpretation of history emerged from the confrontation with the Greeks about 165 B.C. If II Maccabees reveals a true aspect of the activities of Antiochus IV by stressing the cooperation of Hellenizing Jews , this is something less than the whole truth . |
| 15 | That 's an amazing 1,639,369 EXTRA copies over the three days — more than the whole circulation of the Daily Express and bigger than the combined sale of the Daily Star and Today . |
| 16 | Firstly , this gives you greater flexibility in distributing the data around the devices and directories on your system , and secondly , it is useful administratively — for instance , if one project finds that LIFESPAN is giving them data corruption alarms , you will need only to validate their particular Storage Directory , rather than the whole database . |
| 17 | Nothing other than the whole theory is conclusively falsified by untoward experience . |
| 18 | But glue up as little as possible at this stage for ease of working ; ie. the back rather than the whole chair . |
| 19 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |
| 20 | Bob Hope was off the scale altogether and Peter O'Toole was worse than the whole lot put together . |
| 21 | It 's had well I think it 's had a short engine rather than the whole lot . |
| 22 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 23 | No sooner had he published Volume I in 1960 than the whole status that he claimed for History , for man , and for their articulation , came under attack . |