Example sentences of "and the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its daring conception , ideal in the highest sense of the word , is based on the purest truth , and wrought out with the concentrated knowledge of a life , its colour is almost perfect , not one false or morbid hue in any part or line , and so modulated that every square inch of canvas is a perfect composition ; its drawing is as accurate as fearless ; the ship buoyant , bending , and full of motion ; its tones as true as they are wonderful ; and the whole picture dedicated to the most sublime of subjects and impressions … the power , majesty and deathfulness of the open , deep , illimitable sea . |
| 2 | Every line is different — every line is stupid — and the whole character has changed . |
| 3 | I knew I would n't play her as a wimp and the whole audition was based on the speech where she goes mad — the flowers , rosemary for remembrance and the whole bit . |
| 4 | I knew I would n't play her as a wimp and the whole audition was based on the speech where she goes mad — the flowers , rosemary for remembrance and the whole bit . |
| 5 | Again , there were difficulties with Equity when I was selected and the whole thing had to go to arbitration because the company stood out for the casting it wanted . |
| 6 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 7 | Scattered cheers answered him , big Mary gave a ‘ Heeuggh ! ’ like a dancer , and the whole throng began to move along the road westwards , past the dark silent façade of the inn , the equally silent church and manse , towards the gates of Castle Menzies . |
| 8 | What was true on the wider front was also true at a personal level : Layton was about to go into his most prolific period of writing , and the whole literary scene was being galvanised into a productivity never before realised in Canada . |
| 9 | The visitor left , forgetting to take her sewing machine , and I left with her , knowing full well that I would never see Aisha again and that news of my forcing the lock on her cupboard would reach my family and the whole village well amplified , so that I 'd end up accused of stealing all of Aisha 's possessions . |
| 10 | Thus he caught the police station and the whole city during those few fictional july days when everything except the Epilogue happens . |
| 11 | The identities need switching and the whole statement inverting , thus : ‘ The historical wrecker and terrorist , whether in Petersburg or Bologna , must bear the mark of the fiction and thereby confirm it . ’ |
| 12 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 13 | Jurgen Warnke , the deputy chairman of the right-wing Christian Social party warned that there could be violence and the whole East German security apparatus could be deployed to ensure the survival of the regime . |
| 14 | The Pythons ' inspiration ( of the films in particular ) can be traced back , via the immediate influence of the Goon Show , along a line leading directly to Lewis Carroll and the whole English tradition of nonsense , parody and the mock-epic . |
| 15 | Only three of the five works in the programme could be described as Canadian , and the whole evening left an impression it would be kind to call elusive . |
| 16 | This autumn the ground is so dry that most of the earth falls away through the gaps in the conveyor-belts , but the digger can not distinguish between potatoes , stones and potato-sized clods of mud , and the whole lot are delivered aloft , along two belts made of metal rods . |
| 17 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |
| 18 | The issues about which respondents expressed concern included the use made of the results by , variously , the police authorities and the IRA , and the associated question of whether the field-worker was a spy for the authorities or the Republican paramilitaries ( on researchers as spies see Hunt 1984 : 288–9 ; Manning 1972 : 248 ) ; the obtrusiveness of the ethnographer 's ubiquitous notepad ; sensitivity to how the research might compromise their personal security or lead to a transfer , and worthies over the field-worker 's religion ; and the whole focus and topic of the investigation . |
| 19 | After walking in and setting down their pocket tape recorder , they soon reveal themselves as inarticulate and badly prepared and the whole encounter is punctuated with long , awkward silences . |
| 20 | And the whole front row was full of women who were breastfeeding their babies . |
| 21 | The soul 's deepest will is to preserve its own integrity , against the mind and the whole mass of disintegrating forces ’ ( Studies in Classic American Literature , 185 ) . |
| 22 | To get the sledge ready you anchor it firmly ; this is vital because once you have attached your first dog he will start to tow and the whole shooting match will be long gone by the time you get back with your second dog . |
| 23 | The tickover burbles and barks , but blip the throttle and the whole car twists with the torque reaction and the birds fly out of the trees . |
| 24 | The bridge was to be broken , more rigs were to be added to reduce the water gaps between them , and the whole thing reassembled within one hour . |
| 25 | Bryanston was sold to the TV company Associated Rediffusion in 1965 and the whole rickety infrastructure of an independent British film industry was simply swept under by waves or American finance , with AFM ceasing production in 1964 after Bryan Forbes ' ponderous Seance on a Wet Afternoon . |
| 26 | There were no children playing , no neighbours talking , and the whole place had the deserted air of an American neighbourhood on Thanksgiving Day . |
| 27 | But the prison system — not particularly capital punishment — but the penal system as it is , and the whole apparatus of judgement , people deciding on other people 's fates … that does irritate , and upset me quite a lot . ’ |
| 28 | It is made from fermented soya beans and the whole process of producing the sauce should take at least a year . |
| 29 | Laws on slander and incitement aside , freedom of expression must be safeguarded as fiercely as is the honour of the Prophet by those Mr Rushdie has offended ; pick at it , or suggest compromises , and the whole principle is threatened . |
| 30 | So it looks as if cameramen ( rather than the proposed cameramans ) will be able to get on with their work in the Gulf ; the beloved accent on abîme will not fall into the abyss ; and the whole affair will have been a non-événement . |