Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thus that I arrive at my multiplier for the whole life of eighteen . |
| 2 | ‘ I think Racedown is the place dearest to my recollections upon the whole surface of the island , ’ Dorothy later wrote . |
| 3 | ‘ That fucker , my father-in-law , will ruin my erection for the whole day , ’ he said . |
| 4 | And if you push me much harder , I 'll wash my hands of the whole thing and tell the Committee I ca n't cope , and make it clear I want you out — out , do you understand ? |
| 5 | My position on the whole thing started to wobble last year when I had some reflexology ( a foot massage ) which made me more relaxed than I 've felt for years . |
| 6 | The coffee hit the spot , though , and I drank my way through the whole pot and threw in a couple of cigarettes for good measure . |
| 7 | It was run by two balding , bespectacled men in their late thirties , neither of whom was called Largo , whose extensive knowledge of antiques had made it one of the most popular and profitable shops of its kind in the whole canton . |
| 8 | It was during this period that savage Turkish reprisals against Balkan nationalist movements gave the last of the sultans an unsavoury reputation for religious persecution which has coloured the writings of some western historians in their assessment of the whole record of the Ottoman empire . |
| 9 | Having satisfactorily ascertained its existence through the whole length of the spinal marrow , my next object was to discover whether it was a continued tube from one extremity to the other : this was most decidedly proved , by dividing the spinal marrow through the middle , and pouring mercury into the orifice where the canal was cut across : it passed in a small stream with equal facility towards the brain ( into which it entered ) , or in a contrary direction to where the spinal marrow terminates . |
| 10 | Grant that they may always be confident of your presence with them and of their oneness with the whole family of Your church ; and grant that with one mind and one voice we may all worship You , O Christ , who with the Father and the Holy Spirit , reigns for evermore . |
| 11 | ‘ Most men I know would hang a title round their necks for the whole world to see ! ’ |
| 12 | She gave Eva plenty of scope to prepare her mind for the whole matter of the interpretation of the gospel in Africa , and how to make the good news relevant in a non-Christian environment . |
| 13 | This caning had its effect for the whole class knew that Miss Smith would stand no nonsense and it stamped her authority . |
| 14 | Security will be tight : Peru 's Maoist guerrillas , Sendero Luminoso , expressed their disapproval of the whole business by setting off a number of bombs in Ica last week and murdering the wife of the rector of the local university . |
| 15 | Although by the end of the century their numbers are likely to rise to approximately 350,000 , their proportion to the whole Syrian population is unlikely to change . |
| 16 | When he was flowing in the part , the company could feel his great presence and their confidence in the whole enterprise blossomed . |
| 17 | In every enchaînement each step an/or pose must be given its appropriate value by way of beginning , climax and end so that its place is justified by its importance to the whole sentence . |
| 18 | In most authorities the parties are represented on the committees in proportion to their distribution on the whole council . |
| 19 | This process will continue whether or not teachers have a broader grasp of their place in the whole process . |
| 20 | Indeed , even when the Schools Council diverted its attention to the whole curriculum , in contrast to its preoccupation with individual areas or aspects , it maintained its non-recommendatory stance . |
| 21 | We had to quickly change it back , but I only got one hook done up and she had to go holding one hand behind her back for the whole scene . |
| 22 | Pavlova aspired to take the beauty of her art to the whole world . |
| 23 | One is Delta Cephei , which has given its name to the whole class of short-period variables . |
| 24 | From Brunnen it is only 5km ( 3 miles ) distance to Schwyz the cantonal capital which gave its name to the whole country with only a slight change of vowel . |
| 25 | Called the Public Expenditure Survey , it gave its name to the whole process PES . |
| 26 | The sets were marvellous and Madge Grimsilk had devised a quick and efficient way of implementing her transformation of the whole theatre into a fairy ballroom . |
| 27 | Danish kings emerge from a period of obscurity in the middle of the tenth century , when a dynasty based on Jelling in Jutland , and represented by Gorm the Old and his son Harald Bluetooth , seems to have extended its authority over the whole country , which then included the province of Skåne in modern Sweden . |
| 28 | The French retained fishing rights and rights to use the western shore as a base which turned out to be a source of dispute for almost two centuries , but the British were clearly establishing their control over the whole Atlantic seacoast . |
| 29 | Consequently , the DES failed to devise a coherent strategy for teacher training and to work out its role in relation to higher and further education and its priority within the whole education programme . |
| 30 | It is not a question of disciplines and their boundaries being ‘ natural ’ or ‘ artificial ’ , but rather that ( inevitably perhaps ) our conceptions of knowledge become overly reified in their institutional and professional structures and we need to be reminded of their fluidity within the whole epistemological space . |