Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 2 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 3 | Cos now of course we 're talking about the whole cosmos , the everything that there is , the all , the whole erm and then , you 're right , he does talk about erm erm body at one er extraordinary point he talks about body , the relation of body and soul being that of a er fishing net er floating through the ocean and erm the ocean is soul and this fishing net is er body floating erm through it . |
| 4 | So really the they 're working on the whole scheme then er |
| 5 | In not believing such relations to be wrong , conservatives are going against the whole ethos of the modern world , in which it has increasingly come to be held that humans should be treated as equals . |
| 6 | The idea of the Big Chief Exec himself crashing in on the detail seems a poor use of resources itself and no more a guarantee of success when he should be looking after the whole business ( you have heard the litany : ‘ At first he came to every meeting , then occasionally he was called away , then he sent some deputy or other , and in the end we thought , what 's the point , if he does n't care , why should we ? ’ ) . |
| 7 | He worries that as a result the net effect of propagating WABI will be damaging to the whole Unix business . |
| 8 | I 'm baking for the whole week beforehand ! |
| 9 | We need to be dealing with the whole thing as a community , as a society . |
| 10 | I 'm talking about the whole grey area , where Social Services Departments define parents as inadequate or not good enough or just generally at risk . |
| 11 | ‘ We wo n't be working for the whole evening , Ingrid , ’ said Suzi quickly . |
| 12 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 13 | He has been stonewalling throughout the whole month since Lamb told the world , through the Daily Mirror , how the Pakistanis scuff and scrape and scoop at an old ball until it swings as though it was factory fresh . |
| 14 | She led him along deserted , echoing corridors ; nothing was happening in the whole enormous building , he realized , but the tiny preparations for this one tiny programme . |
| 15 | The firm was investing in the whole insurance industry . |