Example sentences of "and the whole " in BNC.
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| 31 | Supplementary Benefit was to give way to Income Support and the much-abused system of single payment was to be replaced by a Social Fund ; Housing Benefit was to be reformed so that it did not discriminate against the low-paid in work ; and the whole social security system was to be simplified . |
| 32 | I still found the argument extraordinary , but I also had to take into account the fact that if Nigel retained this stance then the committee meeting would have to be postponed and the whole exercise would get off to a terrible start . |
| 33 | It had been a lie and the whole class had laughed when Philip had asked him how much it had cost , even Mrs Mills . |
| 34 | And the whole system 's supposed to be funded by abolishing Child Benefit and the tax allowances people get for their children . ’ |
| 35 | And then , one day , he understood , and the whole world opened out . |
| 36 | She had been letting the house to my father and mother , but they had now died also , and the whole property was to be sold : the house , yard , outbuildings , flower garden , kitchen garden , and a small meadow . |
| 37 | There are seven priests , with seven trumpets , and the whole business takes exactly seven days . |
| 38 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 39 | Whatever the pragmatics of the decision , however , a closer look at the New Testament and the justification which the early Christians chose to give for abandoning circumcision reveals much about the ritual and ironically brings us back full circle to the notion of gendered blood and the whole culture-nature : male-female scenario . |
| 40 | Same 's total of 36 forward and 36 reverse gears is made up from three groups , each with six gears and the whole thing doubled by a high-low splitter . |
| 41 | For a second there was freeze-frame and the whole world stopped . |
| 42 | His efforts were devoted to drawing the surrounding countryside , the village clergy , the great landowners and the peasants , and the whole area under his supervision into the religious life of his town . |
| 43 | The atmosphere must be right in the arena and the whole event must be properly produced and co-ordinated . |
| 44 | He was dressed as a wizard and the whole place was full of drawings of human sacrifices and magic designs . |
| 45 | Tropical plants with bright leaves and flowers made a colourful display , and the whole shopping centre was luxurious in the extreme , stuffed with goods and shoppers . |
| 46 | The dinner was being held on the racecourse , in the grandstand with its almost limitless capacity , and the whole affair , Mackie had told me , was frankly only a giant advertisement , but everyone might as well enjoy it . |
| 47 | The Minster had the gruffest basso but the others were undeterred and the whole tribe of them made a tremendous clangour . |
| 48 | In Pest-Buda , the cannons thundered and the whole city celebrated . ’ |
| 49 | Men from Wadenhoe who were present at the next Northamptonshire Forest Eyre in 1255 were committed to prison , and the whole township was adjudged to be ‘ in grievous mercy ’ . |
| 50 | All along Park Lane they backed on to Hyde Park , and the whole space between the Ritz Hotel and Berkeley Square was taken up by just two very grand ones . |
| 51 | This next generation of routes is then assessed , and the whole fitness-rating , breeding and mutation process repeated . |
| 52 | ‘ AND the whole earth was of one language , and one speech . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ There are insufficient sportsmen who appreciate that they will lose their sports and the whole fabric of life in the country , ’ he said . |
| 54 | He and his 14-year-old son David have joined St Mellion golf club , and the whole family intends to use the nearby equestrian centre . |
| 55 | It just went off and the whole place shook . |
| 56 | The panoply of scholarship Mr Till unfolds in his analysis of the relationship of words to music , bringing in most of the Enlightenment philosophers and writers , is awe-inspiring , as is his knowledge of the reforms of Emperor Joseph II and the whole contemporary Viennese scene . |
| 57 | On the evidence of what was seen at Goodison Park , neither side has any outstanding strengths or glaring weaknesses and the whole puzzling equation simply comes down to a matter of confidence . |
| 58 | That makes financial sense in a difficult housing market , says Crisp , and the disruption is short-term ; with timber-frame , the shell can be erected and weather-proofed within two weeks and the whole project completed within three months . |
| 59 | Personal View : Jam today , and the whole weekend |
| 60 | Beanz meanz Bangs and Smashes , deafeningly loud , just missing two old geezers who squawk and screech , and the whole store breaks out in — |