Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps changing levels of transport provision can be regarded as part and parcel of rural change as a whole , as discussed in chapter 1 . |
| 2 | In addition , the student will acquire a detailed familiarity with the history , culture and contemporary situation of the selected country and a broad-based knowledge of the Scandinavian field as a whole . |
| 3 | However , it will be evident from the figures that sole practitioners account for a disproportionate percentage of the responses in relation to the percentage of firms in private practice as a whole which they constitute ( 63% and 37% respectively ) . |
| 4 | For a variety of reasons , therefore , it is not possible to regard the overall figures for the consultation as statistically representative of the views of solicitors in private practice as a whole . |
| 5 | Will he undertake that when he and my right hon. Friend the Minister go to Brussels next week for that crucial meeting , they will continue to fight for British agriculture as a whole and not bend over backwards to please MacSharry , as the Opposition would do ? |
| 6 | If we had proposed a separate profile component for knowledge about language , it might have been seen as having a weight ( in terms of content , teaching time and assessment ) which was disproportionate in relation to the English curriculum as a whole . |
| 7 | Over 2,000 programmes were referred to by our sample , ranging from specific short courses to six or twelve month programmes , which altogether represents a quite considerable commitment of resources to training on the part of public librarianship as a whole . |
| 8 | The nationalized industries became a battleground in the government 's fight to promote a change in the balance of power between management and workforce in British industry as a whole . |
| 9 | We rarely see the Old Testament as a whole and little attention is paid to the system of political economy which is set up under divine instruction in the Pentateuch . |
| 10 | In the context of German Hellenism as a whole , what it meant was an ever-widening gulf between classics as a study and the creative art and life of the time . |
| 11 | Thank goodness Ronnie Moran was at hand to prevent Souness causing even further disastrous consequences for the club in particular , and British football as a whole . |
| 12 | This project examines the precise nature of the problems on this interface across the public sector as a whole , both in conceptual and analytical terms , and in terms of identifying potential policy solutions for the improved management of public capital assets and expenditure . |
| 13 | Other writers ( e.g. Bell 1975 ; Beaumont and Leopold 1982 ; Clegg 1979 : passim ; Winchester 1983 ) have also attempted to identity ‘ key features ’ of nationalized industries , although few ( with the exception of Bell ) have dealt with the state enterprise sector specifically rather than the public sector as a whole . |
| 14 | the semantic relations between words in English vocabulary as a whole and in texts ; |
| 15 | If mind itself has a social origin — if , that is , it arises through the process of communication — and if thinking consists at bottom in the manipulation of generalized attitudes taken over from the social group as a whole , then there can be no question of the social determination , in some sense , of knowledge and thought . |
| 16 | The first stage involves the organization of individual attitudes towards one 's self arising out of various relationships , and the second stage , which Mead considers necessary for the full development of self , is constituted by the organization of the attitudes of the social group as a whole and this Mead has called the generalized other . |
| 17 | Once an explanation has been accepted by the scientific community as a whole , it is very hard to dislodge it . |
| 18 | A scientific revolution corresponds to the abandonment of one paradigm and the adoption of a new one , not by an individual scientist only but by the relevant scientific community as a whole . |
| 19 | Legal and economic context in which this takes place and of the impact of these changes on the scientific community as a whole and on the individual laboratory workers ' culture and practice . |
| 20 | Training in communication skills , particularly the writing of scientific papers , should ensure that research results become more widely available to the scientific community as a whole . |
| 21 | Even as civil society endlessly displaces corruption from the social body as a whole on to its low life , the latter reveals both the original source and full extent of corruption within the dominant itself ( pp. 16 , 174 ) . |
| 22 | Our other main sample , however , the 444 life stories recorded for an earlier project , had been deliberately chosen on the basis of a quota sample to be representative of the British population as a whole in the early twentieth century . |
| 23 | Evidence from official statistics suggests that the number of households containing two or more elementary families has indeed fallen : from 3 per cent of households in 1961 to 1 per cent in 1981 ( Social Trends , 1987 , p. 41 , table 2.1 ) Clearly this is , and apparently has been for some time , very much a minority arrangement within the British population as a whole . |
| 24 | The results of BBC WILDLIFE 'S favourite animal survey may not be particularly representative of the British population as a whole , but they certainly shed some interesting light on the particular animal characteristics that readers find most appealing . |
| 25 | Certainly the historical evidence as a whole gives little support for the quite widespread belief that older people in the past enjoyed a much more secure and respected position than they do in the present . |
| 26 | It was the dramatic and unexpected fall of France in the early summer of 1940 which persuaded the British leadership as a whole that , whatever the cost , it was now imperative to secure American assistance . |
| 27 | Shared surfaces are thus tiny islands in a sea of ‘ normal ’ driver behaviour , which is thus expected to change on entering the shared space , not on entering the residential area as a whole . |
| 28 | Certain firms might go to the wall under domestic competition but , as the proponents of the policy admit , ‘ the British economy as a whole is being feather-bedded ’ [ Godley , 1979 , 233 ] . |
| 29 | The Programme is meant to study , and act upon , the cultural environment as a whole . |
| 30 | There is within the health sector and the popular movement as a whole a conscious and structured effort to involve as many as possible in the movement for change . |