Example sentences of "be [prep] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 2 | We 've been through the whole thing with adoption ! |
| 3 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 4 | Although there are no minority reports , a peer who has reservations about the conclusions of a report is not bound in debate by collective responsibility , and debates , which , of course , are for the whole House , often show more diversity of views than does the report . |
| 5 | Mm Erm yes so he was just saying that , you know , the only night he 's really been out since New Year 's Eve was last Wednesday , he 's just been in the whole time . |
| 6 | I 've been round the whole periphery of D thirty nine er other than the southern side . |
| 7 | For instance , it is often convenient to be able to estimate how many nodes there are in the whole tree . |
| 8 | This charge will be for the whole year and will be based on their term-time address . |
| 9 | Yes , housing benefit will be an element of the total package , but will not be for the whole cost of care and will not be wholly additional to current rates of care . |
| 10 | However , for funding reasons this centre was to be for the whole region . |
| 11 | it would be like the whole year was getting |
| 12 | We do not want this My Lords , th the th the appointed members system will be wrong , it will be against the whole trend of policing as the Noble Lord Harris spelt out from eighteen thirty-five . |
| 13 | Yet each must be within the whole framework . |
| 14 | The systematic model of teaching illustrates how influential correctly used objectives can be on the whole teaching process from planning to assessment , and demonstrates the need for extreme care in choosing them . |
| 15 | They planned to go back on and complete their set with vocals from Cressa of The Stone Roses , who had been on the whole tour and knew most of the songs . |
| 16 | They planned to go back on and complete their set with vocals from Cressa of The Stone Roses , who had been on the whole tour and knew most of the songs . |
| 17 | The last I heard you thought they were behind the whole thing ! ’ |
| 18 | Scums marks were on the whole shit . |
| 19 | So with the particular diary system , I mean this , what I 've just said is about the whole course , but the particular diary , I would say get to grips with the diary first , and then you know , once you 're , you 're on , on , on tap with that , then get involved with the erm , project sheets and the project management forms . |
| 20 | Otherwise , he 's been happy knocking over inferior opposition and now people wonder how serious he is about the whole thing . |
| 21 | That 's for the whole weekend |
| 22 | Prices for a family of four staying in an apartment for two weeks this June start at just £287 — and that 's for the whole family ! |
| 23 | That 's for the whole lot . |
| 24 | George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’ |
| 25 | At the very least he is showing us that the Christian good news is for the whole world . |
| 26 | His gift of salvation is for the whole world , it 's available , God willeth not the death of the sinner , but that all should come to repent . |
| 27 | The Speakership is for the whole House of Commons , and should not be an extension of government patronage . |
| 28 | The way to eradicate threadworms is for the whole family ( apart , possibly , from pregnant mums ) to take de-worming treatment , either an over-the-counter medication or the rather more effective prescribed preparation from your doctor . |
| 29 | And I would rather be yours than anybody 's in the whole world ! |
| 30 | It is in the whole couplet of A and B in which A is affected by its juxtaposition with B , and B by its juxtaposition with A. The whole is different from the sum of its parts because the parts influence or contaminate each other . |