Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NATURALLY , BOTH Jim and Fruitbat have the wit and honesty to carry the whole affair and actually make a go of the potentially over-sanitised ‘ indie ’ event . |
| 2 | To succeed in a claim based on adverse possession the appellant would have to show a continuing intention to exclude the whole world from the premises including the legal owner … |
| 3 | John Pitt , joint managing director of Anchor International , accused the protestors of objecting to the licence in a bid to scupper the whole scheme . |
| 4 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 5 | Thus many third and fourth generation computers provide a range of facilities ( such as several data-types ) in an attempt to cover the whole spectrum of applications in one design . |
| 6 | The Large English Atlas ( serially produced with Bowen 1749–60 ) was the most important county atlas since Elizabethan times and the first real attempt to cover the whole country at large scale . |
| 7 | The Institute , therefore , seeks in its educational programme to cover the whole business activity involved from drawing board to prompt delivery , payment received , an after-sales service established and , hopefully , a repeat order on the way . |
| 8 | Put simply , ‘ TFTO ’ is an attempt to illustrate the whole development of human thought and culture in a double album of quasi-classical gonzo rock ( though Yes head honcho Jon Anderson puts it a whole lot more verbosely in his very silly liner notes ) . |
| 9 | Ultimately the attempt to undermine the power of the Prime Minister can be portrayed as an attempt to undermine the whole system of parliamentary democracy as we know it and this will not even be considered . |
| 10 | A major change in Nissan 's plans is the intention to run the whole rally programme from Britain . |
| 11 | What an international perspective can add is a sense of the contradictions or points of stress in the new structures : the attempt to shift the whole system by floods of detailed description and prescription and the consequent overloading of channels of communication ; the preoccupation with assessment to the point where it may overwhelm the teaching ; the ambivalent character of statutory syllabuses as being at once central regulation and individual entitlement ; the potentially disruptive and anomalous role of governing bodies which may act simply as local guardians of centrally determined norms , but may also be educated to accept more subtle and flexible views of what schools can and should do , and may develop the political clout to do something about it . |
| 12 | Powers of witty innovation have to be developed which enable a fan to change the whole nature of a social situation . |
| 13 | Titmuss 's famous book The Gift Relationship ( 1970 ) used the example of donating blood to raise the whole discussion about giving and social welfare on to a philosophical level . |
| 14 | It was Lord Clive of India who bought the estate in 1760 from Lord Herbert ( he had already acquired the Walcot estate to add to his patrimony of Styche ) , and directed his agent to improve the whole property . |
| 15 | A ‘ browsing ’ system allows the user to explore the whole direction of facilities , organized as a ‘ tree ’ , including the SMALLTALK language itself . |
| 16 | However , when the garment was completed I did n't like it and took the decision to unpick the whole thing . |
| 17 | In chapter nine of The Form Rolle uses this Jesus prayer to recapitulate the whole progress in love he has so far described — it becomes as it were the tool which shapes and conveys his understanding of redemption : The prose is orchestrated to a climax . |
| 18 | ‘ I believe that the whole of Belfast should be included in the ban and this is the view of the council , but the DHSS , which has to approve our proposed extension , will not allow the council to include the whole city . ’ |
| 19 | Get an expert to inspect the whole glider carefully , paying particular attention to the wing-root and fuselage fittings , and the tail and rear fuselage . |
| 20 | Saturday was the day when she and Cissie rolled up their sleeves and turned out enough pies and bread to last the whole week , more often than not with the dubious help of Richard . |
| 21 | er course work to do the whole time . |
| 22 | So you want me to help you to produce a plan to solve the whole thing in the next five or six hours . |
| 23 | It catches people 's imagination , and becomes , as Harry wanted , a kind of pictogram to represent the whole range . |
| 24 | Finally , a summary exercise to revise the whole unit ( A–D ) . |
| 25 | There is a twelve percent reduction in maintenance , partly because we sold some holdings , partly a cut in the service , it is a , it is a , it 's a , it 's a legal requirement to maintain the whole thing , under the terms of the agreement , and I 'm also , because of the change in our , dropping our , a land agent , now that 's a reduction of thirty three percent in the management of the estates , so I really am doing my best and resources quite rightly have held my noose in order to ensure that I do . |
| 26 | It would have been opportune for the committee to examine the whole purpose and function of A levels , to see whether they were needed at all ; or whether , if retained , they should be radically changed . |
| 27 | First , came that Sunday when members of the congregation , with the help of friends from all over the City and beyond , even via Tiberias , on Lake Galilee , set to work to prepare the whole church for Christian Aid . |
| 28 | Palmerston promised that a Select Committee would be appointed next session to reconsider the whole problem of the concentration of government departments . |
| 29 | There should be a need to reorganize the whole time-scale of a current c , merely to fit the software into the work schedule . |
| 30 | Modern sleeved couplings avoid the need to dismantle the whole stack . |