Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [prep] the whole " in BNC.

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1 It is operated in the same way as the trumpet , i.e. by means of three valves , and differs only from it in tone-quality ( owing to its wider bore and larger mouthpiece ) , which is on the whole rounder and less brassy than that of the trumpet .
2 So you 've got two countries next door to each other , one of which is on the whole starting into reasonably good practice , whereas the other has , although it says it has intentions of doing it , in the case of the Ivory Coast .
3 And I would rather be yours than anybody 's in the whole world !
4 It is in the whole couplet of A and B in which A is affected by its juxtaposition with B , and B by its juxtaposition with A. The whole is different from the sum of its parts because the parts influence or contaminate each other .
5 George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’
6 Otherwise , he 's been happy knocking over inferior opposition and now people wonder how serious he is about the whole thing .
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