Example sentences of "[pron] be [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 | For instance , it is often convenient to be able to estimate how many nodes there are in the whole tree . |
| 4 | And I would rather be yours than anybody 's in the whole world ! |
| 5 | The last I heard you thought they were behind the whole thing ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Otherwise , he 's been happy knocking over inferior opposition and now people wonder how serious he is about the whole thing . |
| 9 | It was like the whole audience was eating celery . |