Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | What fraction is each piece of the whole strip ? |
| 2 | This can be seen in their reaction to the most striking change of this kind during the whole early modern period — the assumption by Tsar Peter I in 1721 of the new title of Emperor ( Imperator ) . |
| 3 | Evidently , during the journey , Crabb told Mrs Rose something about his mission and appeared to have some misgivings about the whole affair . |
| 4 | ‘ I simply ca n't understand why it was necessary to dredge up this story before the whole world , ’ assistant trainer , Leonty Goncharenko , said . |
| 5 | Again , the positive message which can be drawn from this part of the whole episode ends up buried by default . |
| 6 | Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’ |
| 7 | The DES has explained that a range of cross-curricular issues is intended to be included within this concept of the whole curriculum — including ‘ coverage across the curriculum of gender and multicultural issues ’ . |
| 8 | The mountain peaks of Christian belief are travelled there in a style that has few rivals in the whole history of the church , and none at all in the twentieth century . |
| 9 | The impact of this news upon the whole Wordsworth set was shattering ; many of his biographers feel that the experience was the pivot on which Wordsworth swung from youthful to middle-aged attitudes , from liberal to Tory opinions , from atheism to orthodox Christianity . |
| 10 | Sir I will take this on board , but I think it comes rather badly from an authority in fact both authorities which have so shown so many confusing changes of mind about this area in the whole process since the first plan was issued , that the er details of the consideration by one of the constituent bodies of this erm objection er should be er examined er in such detail . |
| 11 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 12 | As C. S. Lewis wrote so memorably , ‘ this transference of the whole self into another self without the demand for a return [ has ] hardly a precedent in profane literature ’ . |
| 13 | Two club contests at Boveton Beach produced nothing and just a few codling from the whole stretch of beach . |
| 14 | Admittedly , another aspect of the whole thing , as you rightly say , is that there 's been a burgeoning and a lot of different schools , and of course different schools give emphasis to different , different kinds of things . |
| 15 | That there is some discrepancy within the whole tradition of Salic Law is , therefore , not surprising . |
| 16 | The brief given to Fisher was not simply to prepare the way for a measure of egalitarian reform , but to introduce some order into the whole area of adolescent education which , given the increase in juvenile delinquency , and mounting industrial unrest , was felt to be a social issue of some significance . |
| 17 | In the midst of all the child-care and legal paraphernalia of hearings and appeals , another element in the whole affair caused distress . |
| 18 | Whatever response is formed , is fed into a second round of sharing , this time with the whole group in stage 3 . |
| 19 | There was n't another soul in the whole world who could handle the mistress like her , and , if the truth be told , she had been really concerned about the mistress 's bird-like appetite . |
| 20 | But this explanation , apart from implicitly casting doubts upon the ontological interpretation of the principle of indiscernibles , hardly helps to throw much light on the whole issue . |
| 21 | In practice , unless you have a 486DX — it does not work quite like that because whenever the program is converting it makes such demands on the whole system that everything else is slowed up . |
| 22 | Table 5.2 shows that over the period 1971 to 1988 the number employing 1,000 or more workers fell by more than half to leave less than 500 such factories in the whole country . |
| 23 | I would just to say , I think women , women are such victims of the fashion industry and I think there 's a lot more hype surrounding th the bride than there is surrounding the groom and er I think erm , you know th a lot more thought needs to go into the whole thing , there 's so much pressure on young people , particularly girls and there 's sa , so much idealism around the whole thing erm , and and there 's a lot of alternatives to marriage , you know , and this is discounted as th , the woman over there said , about being referred to as Mrs , particularly when you 're over a certain age if you 're not married . |
| 24 | As there are fewer than fifty such hospitals in the whole country , with long waiting lists and high proportions of permanent inmates , the ‘ 6 to 8 months ’ average waiting time reported by Guha ( quoted in Baxi 1982 ) for a gaol in Assam may be shorter than the national average . |
| 25 | I can only think that the teacher wanted to get as much mileage from the whole thing as she could . |
| 26 | Becher and Maclure also lament the reinforcing of subject fragmentation encouraged by the Schools Council , which paid little attention to the whole curriculum ; their few attempts giving ‘ predictably marshmallow results ’ . |
| 27 | The sentiment expressed in the phrase is simply that a strong EC should lay these foundations for the whole continent . |
| 28 | He looked back upon the month of May , and stood aghast at what he recalled , so far were these extremes from the whole habit of his mind . |
| 29 | Table 6.1 shows the spread of these assessments in the whole sample . |
| 30 | The prevalence of these symptoms in the whole population has already been published . |