Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That court tells the executor or administrator what to do , or takes the whole estate under its charge and distributes it . |
| 2 | Traditionally all schools are involved in routine reviewing of the curriculum , but this may not involve either questioning basic assumptions or considering the whole curriculum of the school . |
| 3 | The weakness of the system lay not so much in the Exchequer 's faulty handling of the business for which it was intended , as in the absence of any institution responsible for developing or supervising the whole field of royal finance . |
| 4 | You could hire taxis , or go the whole hog and hire a chauffeur-driven car for the day . |
| 5 | Nigel Lawson then proposed we should either scrap SERPS and put nothing in its place or leave the whole issue until the next Parliament . |
| 6 | The executive may therefore accept or reject the whole idea of a transfer abroad on this basis alone . |
| 7 | Pound or whizz the whole mixture to a very smooth paste . |
| 8 | Do you think of it in terms of a melody and then harmonise it , or does the whole thing come as a block concept ? |
| 9 | The nearer the foundations , the more likely they are to unsettle or destabilise the whole structure . |
| 10 | Wisely , three representative images are chosen for detailed state by state analysis , rather than encumbering the whole catalogue with such voluminous information . |
| 11 | She quickly began to sketch , and at the same time tried to imprint on her mind the combination of colours that made the whole scene so eerily effective . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I 'm desperate to regain a Cup place , and that made the whole episode even worse . ’ |
| 13 | It would have been simpler and more effective , he wrote , to lock the doors and seal up the entrances , simpler and more effective and cheaper than manning the whole building . |
| 14 | Then the sky lights up with a devil lightning prong that turns the whole countryside into a photo negative . |
| 15 | The mainstream Labour left thinks it can call Mr Major 's bluff : he would rather swallow the Social Chapter , they guess , than lose the whole treaty . |
| 16 | It 's like a great mist of folly that covers the whole sky : and we shall never see to go by Frith 's light any more . |
| 17 | 3 The attacker 's body weight drives him head-on into a claw strike that covers the whole area of the face . |
| 18 | One was in 1969 when the original firm of Cadbury merged with Schweppes , a merger that changed the whole character of the company . |
| 19 | Second , any model that described the whole universe in detail would be much too complicated mathematically for us to be able to calculate exact predictions . |
| 20 | Much before that the whole biblical use that starts the whole sales project going . |
| 21 | It would therefore not be too unfair to conclude that many teachers , whether in primary or secondary schools , are , by tradition , unfamiliar with discussions that involve the whole curriculum of a school . |
| 22 | These are vexed questions that involve the whole community in Western societies : scientists , professionals , and the general public . |
| 23 | It 's just been such , it 's obviously been a thing that affected the whole community |
| 24 | All had ulcerative colitis that affected the whole colon . |
| 25 | The bridges are lightweight affairs , complete with handrests ; the six saddles are adjustable for intonation , but for height adjustment you 've got to play with the four screw-legs that hold the whole bridge up . |
| 26 | When the River Erne reaches Fermanagh , it broadens out into immense Lough Erne , a fragmented inland sea of a thousand islands that bisects the whole county and reaches clear to Cavan in the south . |
| 27 | She sat quietly , her freckled girl 's hand just encompassing the big brown mug , as though it had alighted there , her eyes held by the blessed , blissful forsythia that filled the whole kitchen with energy , with pleasure . |
| 28 | For her actions point up much of the absurdity that underlines the whole concept of monarchy . |
| 29 | That vibrate the whole boat that would do . |
| 30 | Certainly few of the Moi University students state any wish to revert to a traditional course , and many already show enthusiasm for the process of self-learning that underpins the whole philosophy of a problem-based approach to medical education . |