Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real crime of the USSR is to have spoiled an opportunity for the whole world , they have so discredited socialism . ’ |
| 2 | Now this will affect a vast area of atmosphere , because the air moving over that sea surface tends to take up the characteristics and if the temperature 's higher on the sea surface than normal , the air becomes warmer than normal , and this sets up all sorts of reactions , it will probably produce a lot more clouds , for instance , and erm this in turn will cut off the sun 's rays from that area of atmosphere , and this will have an effect on the whole erm heat engine of the atmosphere as we know it so erm we 're now studying how far afield this is affecting the weather . |
| 3 | Faith is an act of the whole man , not of his understanding alone . |
| 4 | But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding . |
| 5 | Moreover , the problem was not confined to one city ( London ) , it was an issue for the whole country : Belfast , Clydeside , Merseyside and a range of industrial and port areas , and city centres as at Sheffield , Coventry , Plymouth , Hull , Bristol and certain cathedral cities . |
| 6 | Mr. Bennett is calling for an investigation into the whole subject of emergency cover for East Hampshire district . |
| 7 | In fact , the use of conjunction provides an insight into the whole logic of discourse ( Smith and Frawley , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | But this will involve an examination of the whole question of walking for pleasure , which is what we most usually do on these occasions . |
| 9 | Both were vehement in their call for an Inquiry into the whole affair . |
| 10 | Two days later , the Commons trade and industry select committee announced that it would conduct an inquiry into the whole affair . |
| 11 | ‘ They are all attempting to affect one tiny aspect of the criminal justice system , but without anybody having an overview of the whole system , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The tax thus came to be seen as an impost on the whole community , to which the general assent of the community was required . |
| 13 | ‘ We want to establish a play resource centre there , making it an attraction for the whole town , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Bob Walker of the manufacturing support department , who developed the course with Paul Swiety of the work study department , said : ‘ This is an important feature of the course as it helps people to understand that TNT has an impact across the whole structure of the Group at all levels . ’ |
| 15 | Lord Charnwood , in a very able speech , asked for an enquiry into the whole conditions governing the education , social and industrial position of the deaf . |
| 16 | Erm what this is really about , I think we all recognise this is the erm purchaser aim to increase their leverage in the contract situation as against the providers on the other side of contract and in fact , I think we ought to tie this very much more in with what this authority has been saying about the proposals of the trust on the provider side because I think that this is an argument against the whole district N H S trusts that we 're getting , but it is encouraging the situation in which health authorities have purchasers on the other side of the contract are going to want to band together and merge to create a larger block in which to negotiate with their whole trust providers , I think this is a a very dangerous situation and think we needed to tie the two together as an argument there . |
| 17 | This is an example to the whole church whose prayers focus outwards . |
| 18 | In East Berlin , the well-known opposition figure , Pastor Rainer Eppelmann , said the talks set an example for the whole country , and called for a two-week period of calm on the streets . |
| 19 | It is a very apparent gesture ( in Les Sylphides ) , a yearning for height , for distance , an inclination of the whole body , a movement of the entire being . |
| 20 | Trades unionism , functioning in its proper field , was an asset to the whole community , but when it was used by ambitious men for their own ends it was a danger . |
| 21 | ‘ It was an attack on the whole community — on sick children and their parents , on old people whose much-needed operations will have to be delayed , on the medical staff who devotedly care for them , and on the security forces who will continue to defend the community and to bring terrorists to justice . ’ |
| 22 | It was an attack on the whole community — on sick children and their parents , on old people whose much-needed operations will have to be delayed , on the medical staff who devotedly care for them , and on the security forces who will continue to defend the community and bring terrorists to justice . |
| 23 | Few who lived when the aristocratic rule of taste prevailed would have questioned Sir Henry Wotton 's definition in the previous century of ‘ Every Man 's proper Mansion House and Home ’ as ‘ the Theatre of his Hospitality , the Seat of Self Fruition , the comfortablest Part of his own Life , the noblest of his Son 's Inheritance , a kind of private Princedom ; nay , to the Possessors thereof , an Epitomy of the whole World ’ , although , on occasions , this was not of course the reality . |
| 24 | Like Jane Austen 's houses , John Plaw 's mansion house ( Fig. 14 ) is no longer designed as ‘ an Epitomy of the whole World ’ . |
| 25 | The disaster of Munich was , in fact , so monumental in Nizan 's eyes that he felt constrained to write an account of the whole affair in order the more effectively to understand it . |
| 26 | He regularly dissects the bones , muscles , tendons and ligaments around the ankle and knees of quadrupeds in order to gain an understanding of the whole animal 's performance . |
| 27 | Baker ( 1982 ) has also written an introduction to the whole subject of migration in animals . |
| 28 | The master was instructed to draw up an inventory of the whole stock in the sick wards ; some weeks passed but he still failed to do so . |
| 29 | There was an invitation for the whole family . |
| 30 | In this instance , I am asking the Court whether , having regard to the terms of its judgment upon Mr. Berry 's application for relisting , the Court considers that it has the power to entertain an appeal of the whole case upon a reference to the Court by me under section 17(1) ( a ) of the Act . |