Example sentences of "[prep] the whole british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were 186 non-responders , giving a response rate for ACFA members of 82% , and for the whole British population with cystic fibrosis of 56% ( table I ) . |
| 2 | They had stood out against ‘ the general voice of the whole British population ’ for emancipation ‘ was not a party question ; all denominations , whether Whig or Tory , Saint or Radical were united upon this one great point ’ . |
| 3 | If they are in a minority , then let them at least refrain from throwing difficulties in the way of those who have undertaken an almost superhuman task , on the successful fulfilment of which depends the well being , the prosperity and the duration of the whole British Empire . |
| 4 | Eliot was well aware it was all a business of transmission and reinterpretation of past interpretations as he shows in writing that ‘ Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum . ’ |
| 5 | But just as Eliot remarked that Shakespeare acquired from Plutarch more essential knowledge than most men could from the whole British Museum , so he himself seemed to have acquired from books like F. S. Oliver 's Endless Adventure an extraordinary grasp of historical movements and tendencies , for example the seventeenth century ‘ disassociation of sensibility ’ was a piece of historical perception which no pure historian would have been able to originate . |