Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Those 15 hours of waiting on Tuesday made Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories realise the extent to which Yasser Arafat alone holds the whole movement together .
2 Their ‘ preferred ’ way of slotting together shapes the whole crystal .
3 And mine 's is the , the one , the tape cos she just records the whole room .
4 To do so means having kept back something special in reserve and therein lies the whole problem with ‘ Great Expectations ’ — Tasmin threw out her finest first .
5 It just blows the whole room up .
6 She just delegates the whole lot .
7 Again , on ‘ Late Night , Maudlin Street ’ , you say : ‘ I never stole a happy hour around here ’ — but the whole effect of the song , the way your murmured reveries drift in and out of Vini 's entranced playing , just makes the whole time and place seem magical , otherworldly , and incredibly precious …
8 The CBR is black-body radiation at 2.74 K that bathes the Earth 's orbit and presumably permeates the whole Universe .
9 So the camera 's view is steadily narrowing and the smaller screen image still fills the whole frame size of the camera filmstock .
10 It also covers the whole book , whereas the Olivier film ended after Cathy 's death , cutting out the last third of the novel .
11 He also rejects the whole notion of pre-school ‘ hot-housing ’ programmes aimed at boosting the intelligence of young children .
12 And bad government both hits the whole nation and impinges visibly and constantly on daily life ; the disfranchisement felt by third-party voters does neither .
13 This also makes the whole area appear more spacious .
14 When the miller unleashes this stallion to plunge straight off after the wild mares in the fen ( 4057 – 66 ) he unwittingly unleashes the whole course of events that will lead to the " swyvinges " in his family 's bedchamber that night .
15 Started by Pauline Jaricot at the age of 17 Now involves the whole Church in helping the world
16 The problem with this is that although all that shows in column C is a time , the cell really contains the whole date serial number and this will mess up the arithmetic discussed later ( see Step 8 ) to calculate duration .
17 An exaggerated view , but an indication of the cynicism with which the Commission now views the whole concept of beef intervention .
18 but I think now you 've included this little foreground it really brings the whole picture to life .
19 Large amounts of food should be avoided , since it lies uneaten , turns sour and invariably fouls the whole tub .
20 The general truth expressed by the tabernacle , then , is that the Lord determined to live among his people and the will of God — what he wants — equally governs the whole plan of the great tent and its constructions .
21 As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time .
22 The side-dots are odd in that black dots alternate with white dots set into big black squares , and I think that from the player 's viewpoint this almost spoils the whole line of the guitar .
23 ( If the proverb is not understood first time , the PP writes down the key word and then repeats the whole proverb up-to-time . )
24 He nowhere confronts the whole issue of menstruation and childbirth , which marked woman as either ritually unclean or sinful .
25 Essentially , this either bungs the whole output through the effects loop ( good if you 're using EQs , gates or compressors ) or else splits the output in two , sending one half past the effects loop and straight to the power stage ( best , apparently , for when you have a multi-processor in the loop ) .
26 It neatly sidesteps the whole process of undoing and pouring spray by allowing operators to puncture the cans and then let the spray be rinsed straight into the sprayer .
27 The right of re-entry is one of the legal interests listed in s. 1(2) , Law of Property Act 1925 , and therefore binds the whole world irrespective of notice .
28 In other words his is not the sort of playing which grabs you by the scruff of the neck , but rather disarmingly makes the whole process of playing this hugely demanding music appear the most natural thing in the world .
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