Example sentences of "the whole [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something suicidal about the whole pretentious enterprise , which Dustin should have been talked down from before he leaped . |
| 2 | While the whole theological context of that chapter was important , we may note here especially the stress on the priesthood of all the faithful — a theme that Luther made much of , but which Catholic tradition had downgraded ever since . |
| 3 | Their models are their own or each others ' motets and chansons and the chansons of such Parisian colleagues as Claudin de Sermisy , and they make fuller use of the whole polyphonic complex of the model than their predecessors had done : how flexibly may be seen by comparing the opening of the Kyrie of Clemens 's already mentioned Mass ‘ Misericorde ’ : with that of his chanson ‘ Misericorde au martir amoureulx ’ : Bars 3–5 of the Kyrie are not the extraneous interpolation they seem to be ; they come from bars 18–20 of the chanson : |
| 4 | Hence subject to the constraint that where Ro is some pre-assigned value of R. The integration can be extended over the whole 3N-dimensional configuration space by setting whenever the inequality ( 6.10 ) is satisfied and otherwise , and writing Mark off showed that , far from being only a device to select the correct region of configuration space led to a new interpretation of the probability density function |
| 5 | Accompanied by the whole brilliant cast . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , since this trauma was the origin of all later stages of cultural evolution for the race as a whole and is now the culminating phase of childhood development , it is clear that on this phase more than any other the whole mental health and normality not only of the individual , but of the society , depends . |
| 7 | Because the whole critical exercise was subordinate to a theological objective . |
| 8 | It was thus not just an ordinary collection of laws , as other previous collections had been , such as those of Burchard of Worms ( 1012 ) and Ivo of Chartres ( 1091 ) , but the beginning of the whole critical study of the canon law , the science of canonistics , indeed , of jurisprudence . |
| 9 | The whole critical queue of experts were aghast with horror , their watching silence turned to muttering protest , but the customer I was serving simply nodded his head kindly and proceeded to teach me , mainly by face and hand gestures , how micro-thinly I should be cutting up his precious salami sausage . |
| 10 | Professor Camille generalises wildly , as if his examples covered the whole Middle Ages , when actually the fashion for whimsical marginal drawings was principally about 1280 to about 1340 , and especially in Flanders . |
| 11 | His career is the most remarkable of any provincial architect of the whole middle ages . |
| 12 | He set out a four-point plan , commencing with Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions and withdrawal from Kuwait ; the international community could then guarantee the removal of forces , and the restoration of Kuwaiti sovereignty , with arrangements to take account of " the will of the Kuwaiti people " ; an international conference should then be arranged , and comprehensive arms reductions worked out for the whole Middle East region , which would imply dialogue among all concerned , to replace confrontation with " the dynamics of good neighbourliness " . |
| 13 | And the whole front row was full of women who were breastfeeding their babies . |
| 14 | This aroused the resentment of almost the whole front bench , but Wigg 's hostility was not evenly spread . |
| 15 | Itar-Tass news agency said on Sept. 27 that Armenian forces had continued shelling Azerbaijani positions along the whole front line that day ; there were numerous but seemingly unreliable claims of casualties . |
| 16 | The whole front room was gutted . ’ |
| 17 | The two official Party newspapers in Bucharest admitted a threat to ‘ the whole socio-economic construction of Romania ’ — implying a threat to the regime itself . |
| 18 | The degree to which an individual possessed rights over the rice crop thus defined his position in the whole socio-economic system , and became the major indicator of wealth and status for most of the population . |
| 19 | She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story . |
| 20 | On one occasion , for example , the AAA Under-21s and Youths ' championships , I counted eight blacks in the whole non-participating sectors of the Alexander Sports Stadium , yet black participants comprised over half of the competitors . |
| 21 | It was not until a junior school staff , which regarded its professional status as inviolable , was confronted by its Managers that the whole taken-for-granted structure of accountability was thrown into question . |
| 22 | And that , she realised with an increasing feeling of horror , was the whole awful crux of the matter . |
| 23 | The Soviet Union could affect the situation through skilful action with serious consequences for the whole strategic situation . |
| 24 | We fly to Phoenix and Bill , the drummer from Ministry , learns the whole Lush set in a matter of minutes ; putting to bed the notion that all drummers are one-dimensional , unmusical saddoes . |
| 25 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 26 | The main point was , did she or did she not think that the whole ghastly superstructure should be brought down and got rid of , root and branch , once and for all ? |
| 27 | There have been so few reading problems in the whole hundred-and-odd pages that the story has been free to come to life , you can see it all , enjoy it all : ‘ Dear Miss Blyton , I think your stories are really exciting ! ’ |
| 28 | The whole gentile constitution made the transference of private property from father to son impossible . |
| 29 | In the whole sorry saga , West Bromwich Albion were one of the few parties to emerge with dignity . |
| 30 | We are so ashamed of ourselves that we keep quiet about the whole sorry business . |