Example sentences of "[adv prt] whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 2 | And by the way , we 'll have to run for it ; it 's coming down whole water . ’ |
| 3 | Elsewhere , they were scaling the volcanoes of Tharsis , draining the Argyre Basin , and hacking down whole forests of the Red Weed . |
| 4 | Finally , Simkin alludes to the longstanding tradition that Mozart could ‘ write down whole compositions , previously composed in his head . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Adjustment ’ is the polite , IMF word for grinding down whole nations and entire populations . |
| 6 | The essence of showmanship had become the capacity to build up from one 's regular audience , to bring in whole families , to attract women and children , to win over religious families who were normally against organized entertainment , to convince trade unionists and the politically active that a moment 's respite was harmless enough , and to convince the respectable and well-to-do that a visit to the movies was not a disgraceful act . |
| 7 | The fact that political authorities rule over whole communities itself dictates some of the ways in which the question of the justification of such authorities should be formulated . |
| 8 | By comparison with other videoconferencing systems ( which have been known to take over whole rooms ) the surprisingly compact desktop VC7000 looks basic , but allows small groups of people to see each other and show documents and objects regardless of their location . |
| 9 | Sprinkle over whole chicken or fish before cooking or add to minced pork to make meatballs . |
| 10 | ‘ At school , I was one of those annoying shits who 'd reel off whole Monty Python sketches . |
| 11 | The prejudiced often write off whole groups of people as being unacceptable . |
| 12 | In terms of what they were doing , they were crude , heavy-handed models , more likely to destroy the brain than control it ; systems of blocks and stimulae that set off whole chains of unwanted chemical and electrical responses . |
| 13 | People would be auctioning off whole police stations under his nose |
| 14 | But the tide was turning , and soon the subject was enjoying a renaissance in the hands of men such as William Hamilton , George Boole , Arthur Cayley , James Sylvester and George Green , who , unprejudiced by Continental developments , began to open up whole new areas . |
| 15 | Hence , their files give little indication of misdemeanours , which take up whole pages when girls were involved . |
| 16 | ‘ We sample the odd bassline here and there , but we 're not about looping up whole bits of music . ’ |
| 17 | The macaques initially picked out single grains , one at a time , from the sand ; but Imo learned to pick up whole handfuls of sand and grain mixed up , and throw the whole lot into the sea . |
| 18 | That opened up whole chains of other thoughts which he put resolutely away . |
| 19 | Someone tampered with IBM systems by planting a dormant bug due to wipe out whole data banks as soon as the calendar hits Friday 13 October . |
| 20 | During the conquest of the Caribbean the Spaniards trained packs of such dogs to kill Indians and so to wipe out whole villages . |
| 21 | If we attempt to do so , we may leave out whole areas of study . |
| 22 | If kids learn by example , he 'll turn out whole classfuls of pedants . |
| 23 | During these years plague had ravaged through the whole of England , and had already wiped out whole parishes , and in particular the parish of Dode . |
| 24 | At the beginning , the malais had wiped out whole villages . |
| 25 | walnuts never if you crack them along the seam they never come out whole , you always break into the nut |
| 26 | I had a beauty I had a run there I had about four in a row which came out whole , but now I 'm getting crushed nuts |