Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | A first-night mishap had turned into one of the funniest sketches in the whole show . |
| 2 | These occurred at different times down the whole length of the front , from Haj Omran in the mountains of the north to the marshes in the south . |
| 3 | One camera position is for wide-angle views of the whole scene , while the nearer position in the foreground covers the details of the action . |
| 4 | Evidently , during the journey , Crabb told Mrs Rose something about his mission and appeared to have some misgivings about the whole affair . |
| 5 | What accounts for these social improvements across the whole field of human affairs , between your age and mine ? |
| 6 | Investiture was the symbolic part of a struggle behind which there were fundamentally different views about the whole ordering of society and about who was the divinely appointed agent for that purpose . |
| 7 | These are maintained schools which provide education for school pupils and mature students alongside social , recreational and cultural activities for the whole community . |
| 8 | Above all there was rank disbelief at the figure of 542,000 dead which Hitler gave as the total German losses for the whole war . |
| 9 | Sometimes the new couple themselves are so much in love that they have unreasonably high expectations for the whole new family that will be formed . |
| 10 | The Alliance attempted to mask the narrow sectional basis of ‘ economy ’ by popular appeals to the whole electorate ; in this it contrasted sharply with Labour , and so the nature of the appeal is worth closer scrutiny . |
| 11 | Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’ |
| 12 | There are many theoretical difficulties with the whole study ( see O'Higgins , 1980 ) , notably on the allocation of benefits ( Evandrou et al . , |
| 13 | There are further problems with the whole scenario . |
| 14 | The mountain peaks of Christian belief are travelled there in a style that has few rivals in the whole history of the church , and none at all in the twentieth century . |
| 15 | This provided a series of standardized measures against which to evaluate individual Projects , while at the same time laying down broader objectives for the whole Programme . |
| 16 | It is evident that case management , having originally been conceived as a way of improving the co-ordination of care for vulnerable client groups , has been included as a component in community care reforms as a process designed to achieve quite different objectives for the whole welfare system . |
| 17 | May , September and October are ideal months for novices , though we do run level 1 and 2 courses through the whole summer for the more determined . |
| 18 | After careful deliberations on the whole situation the Session are unanimously of the opinion that the only satisfactory solution is to be found in the introduction of instrumental music . " |
| 19 | The increasing prominence of a cappella repertory in the choral institutions and the punctilious singing it requires , the marked prominence of younger singers with clearer , straighter voices ( principally men of pre-marital age , able to accept the low salaries offered to lay-clerks , albeit for brief periods only ) , the choirmasters ’ determination to raise standards by producing clearer textures in resonant buildings , the pervasive influence of boy trebles singing in high registers upon the whole choral sound these are factors that may all have their place in Taruskin 's stimulating argument but might also be regarded as vigorously independent of it . |
| 20 | They can expect me as er as I say but probably , for me , one of the more interesting papers on the whole agenda today . |
| 21 | truths and half-lies where the half-lie masquerades as the whole truth . |
| 22 | In the 100 metres he beat the emerging Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson ; in the 200 metres , in one of the most exciting events of the whole meeting , he tied for the gold medal with Mike McFarlane , and in the relay Scotland gained the bronze . |
| 23 | The instruments , the algorithms and the theory were inseparable parts of the whole study . |
| 24 | On one occasion , for example , the AAA Under-21s and Youths ' championships , I counted eight blacks in the whole non-participating sectors of the Alexander Sports Stadium , yet black participants comprised over half of the competitors . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most resonant phrases in the whole debate came from the pro-rights organiser who suggested that future centuries would come to regard our attitude to animals with the same horrified disbelief we now feel for the periods which practised slavery . |
| 26 | We have no real enemies throughout the whole galaxy . |
| 27 | In practice , unless you have a 486DX — it does not work quite like that because whenever the program is converting it makes such demands on the whole system that everything else is slowed up . |
| 28 | Last year she saddled King of Chance for a well backed success , while in 1990 her Daring Times landed one of the most colourful gambles of the whole season . |
| 29 | Table 5.2 shows that over the period 1971 to 1988 the number employing 1,000 or more workers fell by more than half to leave less than 500 such factories in the whole country . |
| 30 | They have allowed just over 100 days for the whole journey , which is raising money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society . |