Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As regards degree courses themselves , some are broader than others , and in effect provide a foundation for subsequent specialized postgraduate education or training ; indeed , it may be more accurate in some cases to see the whole process as a four-year not three-year one , consisting of three foundation years followed by a specialized professional post-graduate year . |
2 | British Rail insist the whole problem though regrettable , will be ironed out within nine months . |
3 | NATURALLY , BOTH Jim and Fruitbat have the wit and honesty to carry the whole affair and actually make a go of the potentially over-sanitised ‘ indie ’ event . |
4 | Since about 1840 they had been expanding the scope of their products to include the whole range of cotton-processing machinery . |
5 | When occasionally they asked her what was the marketing strategy or the business plan and she said , openly , that there never had been one , her patent naturalness and honesty made the whole thing appear even more of a fairy story . |
6 | It took me less than ten minutes to work the whole thing out . ’ |
7 | Ensuring that the connector is exactly perpendicular to the ribbon cable place the whole assembly into a vice and slowly squeeze the parts together . |
8 | In A Book of Mediterranean Food his chapter heading illustrations occupy the whole width of the page and replace baroque extravagance with simpler , more pungent imagery . |
9 | These few words of Bishop Samson make the whole affair a matter of business-like common sense , more in keeping with the way in which government was developing than with Anselm 's grand and simple principles . |
10 | And Dad put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a tin of tobacco , and Cromb emptied the whole lot into his new pipe with Dad having a look of disbelief on his face , ’ Kerr recounted . |
11 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
12 | The Association is paying for the work , expected to cost in the region of £5,500 ( $9,600 ) from donations worldwide and has also launched an appeal for funds to restore the whole altar . |
13 | Hard , dry cough racks the whole chest . |
14 | Her interesting talk and demonstration made the whole operation look so easy that members were inspired to go home and make their own . |
15 | The deal covers the whole UK mainland , and was greeted in the City as an important breakthrough . |
16 | And the Department of Trade and Industry supervises the whole scheme by approving the bodies that operate it , which effectively means approving their rules and mode of operation as well ; so it 's under government control even if the government is not involved on a day-to-day basis . |
17 | To succeed in a claim based on adverse possession the appellant would have to show a continuing intention to exclude the whole world from the premises including the legal owner … |
18 | The Commissioners had a discretion as to the levying of the money , but the court struck their decision down : the discretion was to be exercised according to reason and law and it was unreasonable for R to bear the whole burden . |
19 | John Pitt , joint managing director of Anchor International , accused the protestors of objecting to the licence in a bid to scupper the whole scheme . |
20 | The duvet symbolizes the whole wretchedness of leaving , so I slump at the table , pulling a long face and blowing ripples in the surface of my coffee which has grown cold anyway . |
21 | Finally I make a 70 per cent reduction copy of my dick , because the highland reduction setting used the whole area of the glass that my dick could reach , and so I captured something vaguely obscene looking , even if the total overall scale was reduced . |
22 | ‘ Has there ever been an ecumenical Council ’ , he asks , ‘ which was not a way of self-renewal through an encounter with the Risen Jesus , the glorious and immortal King , whose light illumines the whole Church for the salvation , joy and glory of all peoples ? ’ |
23 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
24 | Hallowell was in effect establishing the whole field of inquiry with which this book is concerned . |
25 | While we have particularly strong links with the media and the oil industry , other clients cover the whole spectrum of the Scottish community , from banking to manufacturing , from local government to public transport . |
26 | Most banks are prepared to make finance available to exporters to cover the whole cycle of negotiations , production , shipment and payment by the importer . |
27 | Thus many third and fourth generation computers provide a range of facilities ( such as several data-types ) in an attempt to cover the whole spectrum of applications in one design . |
28 | The Large English Atlas ( serially produced with Bowen 1749–60 ) was the most important county atlas since Elizabethan times and the first real attempt to cover the whole country at large scale . |
29 | The Institute , therefore , seeks in its educational programme to cover the whole business activity involved from drawing board to prompt delivery , payment received , an after-sales service established and , hopefully , a repeat order on the way . |
30 | On Sept. 2 the Constitutional Council ( i.e. court ) ruled that the law promulgated on June 24 to allow ratification [ see p. 38942 ] was constitutional despite a case brought in mid-August by Pasqua and 69 other senators alleging unconstitutionality on various counts including that of the Danish referendum result rendering the whole process invalid . |