Example sentences of "the whole the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found material for both these purposes in the work of many anthropologists , but on the whole the writings of Morgan seemed best suited to this twin task . |
| 2 | On the whole the trip so far was a success . |
| 3 | However , economy being of prime importance , he included , he said , nothing inessential to the art of gardening that might increase the size and price ( eighteen shillings ) , but neither had he omitted any advice which might be deemed useful to the profession , ‘ so that upon the whole the work is rendered as complete a system of practical gardening as present knowledge of vegetation can supply ’ . |
| 4 | Some of the English herds used to be milked in spite of the concentration on work and beef , but on the whole the Devon 's old milking traits have been neglected . |
| 5 | But on the whole the bundles of blanket and piled clothing in the beds did not seem alive at all and I might have been alone in the block . |
| 6 | On the whole the poorest communities have had most difficulties , where parents are illiterate or semi-literate and have little money or time to spare . |
| 7 | On the whole the interviewees believed that the advantages greatly outweighed the disadvantages . |
| 8 | On the whole the teachers interviewed had no major concerns over the introduction of LMS . |
| 9 | On the whole the authors avoid these sterile tactics and show an awareness of the strengths of the relativist position while arguing that it is mistaken . |
| 10 | On the whole the translation reads well . |
| 11 | On the whole the royal courts of Europe were more concerned to administer than to define the law : as in canon law , there was no clear distinction between legislative and judicial functions , and so the former was normally hidden in the latter . |
| 12 | On the whole the magazine is great … however , I do have some ideas and some points to be raised . |
| 13 | Certainly there was the occasional spectacular apostasy from civilized values , as in the case of Jack Driberg , a Kenya Masai official who went native and then proceeded to a distinguished career as a lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge ; but on the whole the records , in so far as they can be relied on in such matters do not support this view . |
| 14 | Notwithstanding their impulse to improve , most officials came to recognize , after a year or two in Masailand , that on the whole the Masai made remarkably efficient use of the land . |
| 15 | On the whole the climate of prehistoric times was warmer and more uniform than it is now . |
| 16 | I knew that on the whole the U-boat commanders had fought the submarine war cleanly , the only major exception being the murders committed by the U.852 and her captain , Lieutenant-Commander Eck . |
| 17 | On the whole the earlier statement that references have been cut out seems truer than the later one that they are in but ‘ overlooked ’ . |
| 18 | On the whole the ‘ human potential ’ therapies require less of a time-and-attendance commitment than psychoanalysis , and there are more opportunities for group workshops . |
| 19 | On the whole the wooden aircraft were extraordinarily successful and I suppose that we could hardly have won the War without them . |
| 20 | It was admitted that occasionally the good were afflicted too , and that in these cases God was probably testing their faith , or even possibly allowing them their purgatory on earth , but on the whole the Church found it more satisfactory to believe that madness was punitive and well-deserved . |
| 21 | On the whole the changes have been very successful . |
| 22 | On the whole the professional diplomatists ran this machinery themselves . |
| 23 | They concluded that while different professionals and agencies use quite different definitions of the problem , on the whole the system operates according to a ‘ rule of optimism ’ whereby , wherever possible , the most favourable interpretation of family , particularly parental , circumstances is made and hence situations of actual and potential abuse are kept to a minimum . |
| 24 | The balanced and reasonable manner in which the Report was written and presented , produced on the whole the same characteristics in the media coverage of the proposals it contained . |
| 25 | On the whole the ‘ kinship defenders ’ defend the biological parents and their value to the child , and the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school supports the psychological parents — those who have given most care and attention to the child and stand in a close , loving relationship to him [ or her ] . |
| 26 | There were some notable gaps in care but on the whole the research can be considered reasonably reassuring , given the strongly critical stance toward the decision-making for Banstead which MIND 's research officers had adopted . |
| 27 | On the whole the poorest citizens are covered by Medicaid ; the group just above them , numbering some 35 million Americans , are not covered by Medicaid but have no effective alternative in terms of private health insurance . |
| 28 | Although the organized activists were not on the whole the very poor , the poorest joined the demonstration . |
| 29 | On the whole the writing of the 1880s did demand change and assumed that the privileged readers had such change within their power . |
| 30 | Some socialists but not on the whole the Fabians saw the continued decentralization of government to the municipalities as a desirable feature of future socialist society , providing a permanent check upon the growth or abuse of central authority . |