Example sentences of "which [vb past] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whoever it was that took her never spoke a word the whole time , which made the whole experience worse . |
| 2 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 3 | He snorted through his nose instead of laughing , and emitted a curious whistling sound , reminding her of his snoring at night , which made the whole room vibrate and set ornaments rattling . |
| 4 | That night , as she waited for the band to strike up her opening music , Rory felt none of the usual tingle of anticipation which made the whole business of singing so pleasurable . |
| 5 | In outlining its attitude towards ‘ the Jewish Question ’ , Vanguard seemed prima facie to be taking a stance which rejected the whole conspiracy theory of politics . |
| 6 | In the small hours of the morning , after they had all gone , there was an explosion which shook the whole town . |
| 7 | The scene was illuminated by large floodlamps bolted on to the striated walls of the huge cavern which enclosed the whole place . |
| 8 | It provides an extraordinarily careful and detailed picture and records — factually and unemotionally — the abuses which characterized the whole system . |
| 9 | The head of the Third Section had explicitly warned Nicholas that friction between serf and master constituted a time-bomb which threatened the whole Empire . |
| 10 | It had the right to examine policy and to question ministers and was organized into a general subcommittee which examined the whole PESC system and a series of specific subcommittees , each specializing in an area of expenditure . |
| 11 | The localized ‘ inferior balances ’ — between Sweden and Denmark in the Baltic , between France and the Habsburgs in Germany and Italy — in terms of which many writers and politicians had hitherto thought , were becoming merged in a general balance which covered the whole continent . |
| 12 | Another set of leads ran to a different tape recorder in the kitchen , which recorded the whole evening 's conversation . |
| 13 | However , this impulse to abolish distinctions of holiness within a universal community of creation was deeply contradicted by an opposite influence on Christianity from gnosticism which viewed the whole material creation , and especially sexuality , as a realm of fallenness separated from God . |
| 14 | He was making a small fortune with his spectacular ballets which toured the whole year round . |
| 15 | The internal review in preparation for the 1984 — 85 validation event was a massive exercise which galvanized the whole Polytechnic ( one conclusion from the CNAA 's report was that the process of critical appraisal could be overdone ) . |
| 16 | As a result of adolescence becoming a ‘ social fact ’ , a specificity was bestowed on boy labour which gave the whole subject of juvenile employment an enhanced status in part derived from its scientific description , and in part from its social relevance . |
| 17 | It was from this little hill Wainwright obtained his view of the Lake District which altered the whole course of his life . |
| 18 | Which demolished the whole lot and more . |
| 19 | They were shown into a room which ran the whole depth of the cottage , bright and chintzy , the indoor equivalent of a herbaceous border . |
| 20 | He led the way into the room , which ran the whole width of the house . |
| 21 | ‘ What I did not realise at the outset was that this overlap of business and politics was not something episodic or occasional , but something which permeated the whole system from bottom to top , the very top . |
| 22 | There are other ways of expressing pain and feeling , but the tentative , half-hearted approach which characterised the whole production was perfectly illustrated when , after the catastrophe , the books arranged around the playing area were scattered and the tall bookcases overturned . |