Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the whole [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rolled to her feet and crawled out to find almost the whole population of Riverbank gathered outside . |
| 2 | But I want to hear now the whole story of your life , and how you came to be with the boys I saw you with that day . ’ |
| 3 | The recommendation was that 5,000 to 6,000 of these were suitable for inclusion in the lending section of any small or middle-sized library , and that the largest libraries would be expected to include almost the whole range of British books , amounting to about 17,000 titles . |
| 4 | Wherever they were at school , a number of deaf children were unfortunate enough to stay there the whole duration of the war , neither seeing their parents nor going home for any holiday . |
| 5 | To study one sub-system in detail without regard to interactions with the others is usually inadequate , but on the other hand , to try to examine simultaneously the whole complex of sub-systems is to invite disorientation . |