Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard , dry cough racks the whole chest . |
| 2 | This yacht spends the whole year in the Caribbean . |
| 3 | The proper equipment makes the whole operation far easier and safer , and encourages instructors to practise those exercises which can so often result in a long walk back to the launch point . |
| 4 | I could go on about singing harmonics and endless sustain , but just take it from me that this amp covers the whole guitar tone palette from clean to mega-dirt with considerable ease . |
| 5 | Normally this is only a minor irritation ( unless the controller suffers from migraine ) , and a few seconds later another transmission sorts the whole thing out . |
| 6 | Fighter Command 's finest hour was of course the Battle of Britain , but this book gives the whole story of the men and the machines from its formation in 1936 until its absorption into Strike Command in 1968 . |
| 7 | Civil society in this context means the whole package promised by an enlightened liberalism including full citizenship rights , free trade unions , representative government , and a culture largely autonomous of state control . |
| 8 | The official report avoids the whole issue of how and why Blake and Lonsdale were able to meet so easily and relies entirely on what it was told by MI5 . |
| 9 | The beleaguered owl finds the whole encounter highly distasteful and confusing . |
| 10 | You know that when a black fella dies the whole family moves out of the house and goes walkabout . |
| 11 | John Leland writing in the mid-sixteenth century calls the whole episode a ‘ dream ’ . |
| 12 | Having touched upon the logistical difficulties of implementing the Warnock proposals , I should observe that working with ‘ special needs ’ children within a conventional primary school enriches the whole community — children , teachers and parents . |
| 13 | The heavy stuff masks the whole body , but the structure is as clearly realised as in the Peplos kore ( fig. 39 ) . |
| 14 | The first photo shows the whole group of Master Technicians with the Grand Master and managing director Geoff Whalley . |
| 15 | No one predator sees the whole perfection of mimicry , only we do that . |
| 16 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |