Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This would encourage separatism , and thereby undermine the whole integrity of the Church of England , which it had been the aim of the Tories all along to protect . |
| 2 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 3 | During beta testing , Bristol will be working with small independent software vendors willing to hand their source code over to Bristol so that it can properly babysit the whole operation . |
| 4 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 5 | During the hunts , females are left on their own lot , and so to enable the whole group to re-form after the hunt , the two sexes have to co-ordinate their separate movements , staying within calling distance of each other . |
| 6 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
| 7 | ‘ It was hard for Satan alone to mislead the whole world , ’ declared the grandson of the BeSHT , Nachman of Bratislava , in one of his more caustic diatribes , ‘ so he appointed rabbis in different locations . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If you can find one good man , then I wo n't burn down your city and they ca n't get anybody , so whoosh the whole lot goes up , O K. So Gomorrah |
| 10 | More than once Lina arranged the time and place of an interview , booked the plane , agreed the meals , models , set stylists and hairdressers only to find the whole thing suddenly cancelled . |
| 11 | of of this secrecy that 's apparently surrounded the whole thing . |
| 12 | ‘ Then I more or less let the whole thing drop , ’ he said . |
| 13 | It was eventually spurred into action when the majority of the member states began to take unilateral action to control imports of coal into their own territories , so obviating the whole object of the common market since the new controls also applied to imports from other ECSC states . |
| 14 | For each of the additional searches of the lexicon , the length of the required string is always known , so searching the whole lexicon is wasteful . |
| 15 | ‘ You could give yourself a nasty cut on those shoulder blades , ’ Arthur said , suddenly remembering the whole girl subject after his respite from it and feeling unusually breezy . |
| 16 | Biography , bibliography and philology wait in attendance on literary appreciation ; these four together cover the whole field of literary research . |
| 17 | Indeed , a minister may even ‘ expressly desire to keep out of the affairs of quangos within the ambit of his department , arguing that to behave otherwise is merely to frustrate the whole purpose of this way of organising public services ’ ( Johnson , 1979 , p. 389 ) . |
| 18 | Far better condemn the whole nation to watching television . |
| 19 | After several pints he suddenly startled the whole pub by saying in a loud , benevolent voice , ‘ And a Little Child shall lead Them . ’ |
| 20 | Ensure that the axes are long enough to cover the whole range , or be prepared to omit points from the graph . |
| 21 | Their ‘ preferred ’ way of slotting together shapes the whole crystal . |
| 22 | As you set about making your plans for next year let me leave you with this thought from Eglantine Jebb If children of any country are physically or morally abandoned the whole world loses by it and the whole world gains if children grow up healthy , capable and ready to work for the good of their neighbours . |
| 23 | They 've got gunpowder enough to keep the whole battery firing for ever . |
| 24 | Ultimately it could censure the Commission and so dismiss the whole body , but such an action was so extreme that its use was not even threatened until 1972 . |
| 25 | Representatives from two schools commented that the Minor award was not enough to revitalise the whole school . |
| 26 | Good colour snaps are fine as long as you get the building in focus , take it in sunlight rather than shadow and stand back far enough to ensure the whole building is in the picture . |
| 27 | If we put a gentle shearing force upon the crystal as a whole we can easily apply that little extra strain needed to break the whole line of sorely stretched bonds but we find ( Figure 5b ) that we have merely reformed the whole arrangement one atomic spacing further on . |
| 28 | We 'd better empty the whole kitchen then had n't we ? |
| 29 | So go the whole hog . |
| 30 | I think we 'd better forget the whole idea . ’ |