Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a whole [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 2 | Inner London has less than a third of the level of nursing home provision of England as a whole and this adds to the blocking of acute beds in hospitals . |
| 3 | For sale through Knight Frank & Rutley as a whole or in six lots , the asking price is £2.3 million . |
| 4 | This informative book is presented in five chapters each discussing an important environmental , or ecological issue in the former USSR as a whole and in the Union Republics and selected regions in the country . |
| 5 | The secret protocols under which these republics had been incorporated into the USSR were finally published in the Baltic press in August 1988 and in the national press the following year , but the matters under dispute widened into a challenge to the established relationship between the USSR as a whole and its constituent republics . |
| 6 | Now I think the regeneration of the economy of North Yorkshire in general and Harrogate in particular will be a part of the regeneration of the national economy , when things turn right for the nation as a whole , they will turn right for North Yorkshire as a whole and for Harrogate in particular . |
| 7 | While comments ( see also p 25 ) from the Big Six vary on details , most of them express fundamental doubts about either the ED as a whole or important points in it . |
| 8 | But Hsu was so anxious that " West Town " should typify China as a whole that the Min Chia peculiarities of the local culture are hardly ever mentioned . |
| 9 | It was however made clear that any proposals made must be acceptable to the people of the United Kingdom as a whole and also to the parliament at Westminster . |
| 10 | The proposals must be acceptable to the people and parliament of the United Kingdom as a whole and because of the land frontier with the Republic of Ireland any political arrangement must recognise and provide for the special relationship between both parts of the island . |
| 11 | Never in the history of recorded figures have a Labour Government tolerated unemployment on this scale , whether in the United Kingdom as a whole or in Wales , Scotland or anywhere else . |
| 12 | For a long time , however , Northern Ireland has had a much higher unemployment rate than the UK as a whole and has represented the extreme of regional disparity . |
| 13 | GDP figures suggest that Penang is about 20% richer than Malaysia as a whole and the gap is likely to grow . |
| 14 | ‘ The gatepiers without replacement gates detract significantly from the special architectural and historic interest of Kentwell as a whole and its setting , ’ he says . |
| 15 | In 1324 he wrote to the Pope complaining that he was in danger from magic and occult practices , and the Pope replied by advising him to turn to God with a whole and contrite heart . |
| 16 | How can a group be taken seriously , or be considered concerned , when it openly rejects co-operation with this two hundred and thirty million pound scheme which will very substantially increase the number of opportunities for the unemployed in Britain as a whole and in in particular . |
| 17 | I think we can help the Soviet populations to get through the coming winter , with , with , food aid , cos I think there gon na have a very bumpy winter er , in the economic sense , and then I think we should also , er , be involved in sorting out the military future of Europe , because it 's Europe as a whole that we 're talking about now . |
| 18 | This is illustrated by the fact that there is little natural forest left in western Europe as a whole and that forest resources were much prized by colonial powers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ( see section 4.4.2 in relation to North America ) . |
| 19 | Worse still , his policy often proved counterproductive for Europe as a whole and for France . |
| 20 | It is important to look at Darlington as a whole and we have to consider all of the Catholic schools in Darlington . ’ |
| 21 | Added to this there was the alarming , although on closer inspection ambiguous , evidence of concerted communist plans for Asia as a whole that were discussed at the World Federation of Democratic Youth Conference in Calcutta in February 1948 . |
| 22 | Japan , increasingly aware of the international rivalries at work in Asia as a whole and in Korea in particular , began to regard a weak , backward Korea as a liability . |
| 23 | Japan , it was said , sought the benefit of Asia as a whole and had a national mission to lead and coordinate the nations of Asia in resistance to the West . |
| 24 | NSE 's name , and livery , was chosen to give a new character and significance to the rail system in the south east , and to emphasise its unity as a system , no longer a series of independent lines owning loyalty not to London as a whole but to long-abolished independent railway companies . |
| 25 | The situation in Powys reflects that in Wales as a whole and has contributed especially to the threat to upland broadleaved woodlands but also to the losses of heather moor , rough grassland and to the degradation of species-rich pastures . |
| 26 | The 1981 Census was estimated to have been under-counted by about half a per cent ( around two hundred thousand people ) in England and Wales as a whole and by about two and a half per cent in Inner London ( about fifty five thousand people ) . |