Example sentences of "a whole do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To begin with , it is a sad but true fact that society as a whole does not welcome the widow , however sorry they feel for her . |
| 2 | If society as a whole does not pay , women pay — by being penniless dependants while working full time . |
| 3 | The business class as a whole does not make up more than 0.2% of the population , although if its outer fringes are included it could approach 1% . |
| 4 | Unfortunately classical Greece as a whole does not live up to these ideals either , and he is forced to recognise certain periods and sectors of that society as having ‘ restricted ’ literacy . |
| 5 | Yet Gandalf also on occasion , together with the other wise men and women of the story , accepts defeat as a long-term prospect , a prospect which The Lord of the Rings as a whole does not deny . |
| 6 | According to the principle of organic unities , the value of a whole does not have to be the same as the sum of the values of its parts . |
| 7 | Serious collapse was avoided ( though , as one official involved recalled , ‘ it was pretty close at the end ’ ) , but the new style of government as a whole did not stand up so well . |
| 8 | The adviser argued that the school as a whole did not seem to be discussing , or have any explicit policy on multicultural education . |
| 9 | The House as a whole did not find the Home Secretary 's arguments convincing , accepting the clause by 245 to 222 , a majority of twenty-three . |
| 10 | The defence as a whole do not deal with the back pass rule well . |