Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pupil 's classroom and working groups ( how an individual 's behaviour may have a function for the whole group who may then try and prevent him from changing it ; how groups may be handled so as not to ‘ need ’ one child 's particular behaviour and instead support his progress ) |
| 2 | There is a general consensus that psychological processes are a function of the whole brain , not of its constituent parts . |
| 3 | It is a function of the whole social structure and not some given aspect of it . |
| 4 | It may indeed be possible to regard the present subject of study as yet another type of word-pairing — except of course that the " greater precision " may be a function of the whole line in relation to the previous line , and not just of one word in relation to another word . |
| 5 | ‘ There is a unity about the whole thing which needs to be practised in a single centre , ’ the MRC source said . |
| 6 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 7 | I have found joy in the poetry of many races — the Japanese with their economical haiku verses — such superb Russian poets as Pushkin and Blok — I have enjoyed poetry from the U.S.A. and Australia and recently from Africa , for this is a heritage of the whole world . |
| 8 | A moid of the whole clan is called in two weeks , at the start of October . |
| 9 | In another it sold a part of the whole enterprise by converting the public corporation into Companies Act companies and selling half of the shares : it did this , for example , by reducing its stock in BP from 51 to 46 per cent in 1979 , then to 39 per cent in 1981 , and again to 31.7 per cent in 1984 . |
| 10 | I nevertheless felt the wood itself to be worth searching , and the path which I had hopes for was only a part of the whole site . |
| 11 | Dedicated football fan that he is , Anderson attempts to give advice to Crisp and Broadbent in a long and excited utterance , but this is only a part of the whole picture because his enthusiasm for the topic , implicated by the length of the turn , conflicts with the hesitancy he also displays . |
| 12 | Although the Nursery is only a small unit , it is very much a part of the whole School and can therefore give to those pupils in the upper Senior School , who intend to pursue a child-orientated career , the opportunity of contact with young children by assisting in the nursery on a regular timetabled basis , while the Nursery children can benefit from their contact with their older ‘ brothers and sisters ’ within the Heriot 's Community . |
| 13 | If the circumstances of this crime — that is the eating of the apple — are duly considered , it will be acknowledged to have been a most heinous offence and a transgression of the whole law . |
| 14 | To me he seems to cast a blight over the whole day . ’ |
| 15 | Very often slow communications meant merely a slowing-down in the whole pace of events , an acceptance of the fact that important negotiations were bound to be protracted . |
| 16 | On the other hand , he is like to have failed to win a majority of the whole electorate for an early reelection of the Congress . |
| 17 | However , for the benefit of those who have yet to become acquainted with these mysteries , let's take a look at the whole business of video formats and their particular significance to anyone who is intending to purchase a camcorder . |
| 18 | As Leader of the House , does not he have a responsibility to the whole House ? |
| 19 | We are also forcing the white people in the communities now to take a stand on the whole thing ; they 've always ignored us . |
| 20 | Alton Social Services are hoping to attract a lot of new foster carers in the Alton and Bordon areas to coincide with National Foster Week , and a change in the whole concept of foster care . |
| 21 | A girl brought up in a convent with the whole town knowing her circumstances could not be expected to feel any warmth towards the people who lived in splendour over in Westlands . |
| 22 | Right , what what we 'll do is I mean we can confuse the Chow test looking at the residual sum of squares er from each of these sums as the regressions on sub samples , comparing them with the residual sum of squares on a regressionary of the whole sample and the computer will actually do it for us . |
| 23 | A few years later , in 1912 , La Fresnaye , attempting to describe a certain aspect of Cézanne 's work and to assess his influence on contemporary painting said : ‘ Each object , in one of the late canvases , has ceased to exist only in itself , and becomes little by little a cell within the whole organism of the painting . |
| 24 | He was staring at a photograph of the whole dead group . |
| 25 | From Maslyukov 's statement it already appeared that the proposed rules on referendums on secession required a vote in the whole Soviet Union , not just in the republic concerned . |
| 26 | Carried out every ten years since 1801 , with the exception of 1941 , it has most of the characteristics of the longitudinal survey except , of course , that it is a study of the whole population rather than a sample . |
| 27 | It is n't really a disruption for the whole museum . |
| 28 | ‘ This kind of thing makes a mockery of the whole system , ’ he said bitterly . |
| 29 | It makes a mockery of the ceremony , a mockery of the whole institution . ’ |
| 30 | Such an approach would be centred upon the management of and for professionality and it would be based upon a relocation of the whole management process — away from a top-down managerial philosophy and practice , and towards a genuinely collegiate form which would go far beyond the traditional boundaries of delegation . |