Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 2 | And the ‘ they ’ of more or less the whole town will have heard too . |
| 3 | Where sporadic outbreaks occur , the affected animals , or preferably the whole flock , should be gathered , treated with a suitable anthelmintic and then , if possible , moved to fresh pasture . |
| 4 | The cells are continuously dying and unless new cells are created , sooner or later the whole thing will collapse and disappear . |
| 5 | The same readiness to supplement the wording of an institution is also found , although not as early as the Republic : Ulpian discusses cases in which the esto of heres esto has been left out , or even the whole expression . |
| 6 | Because I know what I 'm going to say to any kids who have the audacity to come to my house which they wo n't but erm and I 'm sure a lot of people do so the rest of the year we we 're encouraging children not to approach strangers and everything else and then this one day of the year or maybe two days or maybe the whole run-up from now until November the fifth you 've got kids begging on the street penny for the guy and all that sort of thing . |
| 7 | Or else the whole dialogue consists of one saying to the other ‘ I am here , ’ and the length of the pauses adds to the phrase the sense of a ‘ still , ’ as if to say : ‘ I am here still , it is still I. ’ And what if it is in the pause and not in the whistle that the meaning of the message is contained ? |
| 8 | Gasworks Olympic contenders … oh , Jeez , Nutty thought : something would just have to turn up , or else the whole thing was a dead duck . |
| 9 | But he failed to win planning permission because Derwentside Council 's development control sub-committee rejected most of the individual elements , which meant that effectively the whole scheme was refused . |
| 10 | To the baby 's weeping , and to the sound that perhaps the whole planet makes when it tries to soothe : ‘ Schh … |
| 11 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |
| 12 | Yet it never seems to have occurred to politicians that maybe the whole system is wrong and needs a radical overhaul . |
| 13 | The latest United Nations report on the state of the environment in Africa says that virtually the whole continent is now being deforested at a rapid and accelerating pace . |
| 14 | Official statistics in modern Nigeria show a large majority of the population engaged in agriculture ; observation , I understand , shows that virtually the whole population is engaged in trade . |
| 15 | They were valued on the basis of the quoted share price , but the shareholders argued that , since all the shares were being acquired , stock exchange prices were not a true criterion and that either the whole undertaking should be valued and the price thus determined apportioned among the shareholders , or the value should be the price which one buyer would give for the whole block , which price should then be similarly apportioned . |
| 16 | A brick beneath him crumbled and suddenly the whole wall began to sag . |
| 17 | And suddenly the whole sky around them was filled with birds , and every bird had one or more Minpins on its back . |
| 18 | And we called it the man-killer because we had ridge and furrow land down there , and this darn thing they was taking , and nothing would come over the top for ages , and suddenly the whole lot would come over on top of you , of course it as well , and you had to that 's what we were doing . |
| 19 | You would get a much cleaner ball as a result and so the whole flow of the game would improve . |
| 20 | Unfortunately for the antediluvian bowl-heads , a right-thinking retailer phoned the RSPCA on the grounds that it was cruel to goldfish and so the whole idea had to be binned . |
| 21 | If you look at the particles inside the nucleus you have a proton , which is a positively charged particle , and it 's about two thousand times more massive than an electron , and you have also have another type of particle in there called a neutron , and a neutron is to all practical intents and purposes it 's just like a proton except that it has no charge , and so the whole mass of the atom is actually concentrated inside the nucleus . |
| 22 | And so the whole memory comes back and er the individual just can not be rid of it . |
| 23 | Two of the things dogs often do when anxious are to chew or lose toilet control — and so the whole situation becomes a vicious circle . |
| 24 | But it does figure that if you were to start out in the home recording business with the comparatively modest gear featured in volume one , then you would probably follow an upgrade path very similar to the one being demonstrated here , and so the whole thing retains a nice , logical pattern . |
| 25 | and so the whole thing perpetuates itself . |
| 26 | I had never done a drawing solely in watercolour crayons before , and so the whole piece of work was a challenge from beginning to end to end . |
| 27 | But the synthesis which has been established is a fresh thesis and so the whole process starts again . |
| 28 | And so the whole process of egg-larva-pupa-adult begins once more . |
| 29 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 30 | There are special rates for children too and so the whole family can enjoy this special offer . |