Example sentences of "be [verb] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stok said , ‘ Baltic Military District GRU are handling the whole thing . |
| 2 | Batchelors , the soup people , are sponsoring the whole deal . |
| 3 | Norman Fowler ( then Secretary of State for Employment ) was quoted as saying , ‘ We are challenging the whole concept that retirement ages should get earlier and earlier . |
| 4 | ‘ Some people are occupied the whole year round with preparing for Christian Aid Week ’ ( Richard Baxter 's Inspire letter again ) . |
| 5 | This having been done the whole program is in x — IF/ALT , as required , after perhaps some renaming of bound variables . |
| 6 | and you 're turning the whole pipe . |
| 7 | Well , you ca n't get near her flat , they 've closed the street , they 're turning the whole city centre into a museum , next thing they 'll be charging admission and closing in the afternoon . |
| 8 | But you 're breaking the whole image of the Irish now . |
| 9 | But now they 're doing the whole thing all over again . |
| 10 | We 're blowing the whole thing out the window , |
| 11 | You 're learning the same information over and over again , this lot you 're learning the whole lot once it 's it 's as though every time you learned a word , you had to learn your alphabet all over again |
| 12 | ‘ You 're furnishing the whole place from a medical outfitter . |
| 13 | Well as I say they 're reviewing the whole lot again . |
| 14 | Estate staff will be particularly sad to see the deer go and they 're hoping the whole herd can be sold together , hopefully to grace the grounds of another country estate . |
| 15 | And now it seems they 're loading the whole blame for Germany on him , and he 's only a corporal and the Army 's his whole — |
| 16 | ‘ Stop it , ’ she murmured , ‘ you 're dramatising the whole thing . ’ |
| 17 | Myeloski knew that Duncan had not been told the whole truth . |
| 18 | Yes , post-punk furtive romanticism prevails tonight and Modern English are dictating the whole story . |
| 19 | Have you been buying the whole store ? ’ |
| 20 | Few apart from servants and those running retailing shops would have expected to have been employed the whole year through . |
| 21 | If we are to keep the whole pantomime , the grounds for the awarding of honours need re-examining , and some thought given to how to make the business more representative of a broader spectrum of achievement . |
| 22 | Others are questioning the whole basis by which grants are allocated . |
| 23 | It means that your , you officer are running the whole show now . |
| 24 | And the Stantonbury drama group are doing the whole thing five times , The school at Milton Keynes is one of the country 's biggest comprehensives , but only half the cast are pupils . |
| 25 | It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it . |
| 26 | Otherwise my little Liessa would be ruling the whole world by now , if I know anything about it . |
| 27 | it has n't cropped up here , but I understand that in other cases where you 've double insurance from two life companies , that two life companies would split the actual benefit fifty-fifty , so it would n't actually be deducting the whole amount , would it , because Abbey Life would still ha , Abbey Life would still have to pay |
| 28 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 29 | Sometimes better ( > ) for passive motion ; they want to be carried the whole time but even then they may not be quietened for long and will demand to be carried by someone else . |
| 30 | The Minister will know that , contrary to the Government 's views about linking business with the environment — we all agree that coal can successfully be converted to coke — for some reason the Coalite works in Bolsover seems to be polluting the whole environment . |