Example sentences of "whole [n mass] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there 's the whole sub-species of warm salads . |
| 2 | Each valve or combination of valves , therefore , produces not a single note but a whole series of possible notes , the one required at any moment being selected and coaxed out by the player , who must therefore ‘ feel ’ the required note before he actually produces it . |
| 3 | In detail barrier reefs consist of whole series of individual reefs and may have small islands on them . |
| 4 | In fact , training horses is all about habits : good training consists of teaching a horse a whole series of good habits ; whereas a poor trainer teaches a horse some bad habits too . |
| 5 | On these grounds ( but not on others ) , the implications of objectification have much in common with a whole series of critical writings which argue that representation or symbolism , as a relation between signifier and signified , tends to promote the unproblematic assertion of the signified ( for example , the modern conception of the self ) rather than investigating the mechanisms by which these are constructed in the symbolic process itself ( e.g. Coward and Ellis 1977 : 122–52 ) . |
| 6 | The first requires the subsidence of a whole series of oceanic islands : the second attempts to use the fluctuating sea levels of the Pleistocene , which are well evidenced by all sorts of phenomena , as the explanation of the features of coral reefs . |
| 7 | At the same time , the schools developed a whole series of vocational courses . |
| 8 | A whole series of technical agreements were also signed ; these were placed under the auspices of the PICAO , and form the technical basis for all civil aviation . |
| 9 | Contemporary opinion , however , has moved towards the view that there exists , even on the physiological plane , a spectrum of sexuality , ranging from the definite , polar positions of male and female through a whole series of indeterminate conditions where one sex prevails but coexists with features of the other , or where neither sex prevails and the individual is either of both sexes or no sex . |
| 10 | Another , the scaffold-web spider , rigs a whole series of sticky threads from the branches of a bush down to the ground and hauls each one so tight that if an insect , either walking on the ground or flying a little way above it blunders into one of them , the thread breaks and the victim , stuck to it with glue , is hoisted into the air . |
| 11 | What is most interesting is that the application of a single chemical triggers a whole series of developmental events , from the manifestation of coiling growth to the formation of haustoria . |
| 12 | Clearwell Castle , Gloucestershire ( c .1728 ) is a unique building , with no affinity either to the contemporary medievalizing modes of Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor [ qq.v. ] or to the subsequent rococo Gothic of William Kent [ q.v. ] ; while Inveraray Castle , by contrast , was to be another immensely influential creation , standing at the head of a whole series of castle-style houses throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ . |
| 14 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |
| 15 | In a clear message to the French , he added : ‘ All of us recognise the importance of reaching agreement on a whole series of complex matters . |
| 16 | There is now a need to rekindle the idea that teaching is a vocation which makes a whole series of complex demands . |
| 17 | To add realism to the stop-motion scenes , small camera movements were introduced , including a couple of slight pans , rather than keeping the camera rigidly still for a whole series of single-frame exposures . |
| 18 | ‘ Those who blur over that distinction do not understand its crucial importance for the successful handling of a whole series of intractable problems of which this is just , at the moment , the worst . ’ |
| 19 | It is better to use a poem which elaborates one visual experience and not a whole series of visual pictures . |
| 20 | A whole series of male clubs sprang up which emphasised the elements of male bonding . |
| 21 | He has successfully rescued a whole series of major houses , without a penny of historic buildings grants , by adapting them as self-contained houses and cottages . |
| 22 | Domal uplifts with rifts cutting across them are particularly common in East Africa where the East African Rift System comprises a whole series of such structures ( Fig.4.11 ) . |
| 23 | If , however , a whole series of such objects was encountered , the child might be forced to accommodate its basic concept of what a table was in order to take in these experiences . |
| 24 | There may even have been a whole series of such usurpations , but the original replication process must have been sufficiently simple to have come about through what I have dubbed ‘ single-step selection ’ . |
| 25 | They would be hard to remember ; they would have been a nuisance to printers , who would have had to make a whole series of new pieces of type ; but perhaps most important , they were ambiguous . |
| 26 | To which we add a whole series of other factors that we then kick around and argue over . |
| 27 | There 's a who er er a whole series of other reports , Bernhope and Fauder for instance , critical of er audit reports er report in in that context and I have to say to the minister er that none of the auditors criticised by D T I reports over the years have actually be disbarred from er from practice . |
| 28 | Full employment will not by itself be sufficient to achieve this objective ; it will need to be accompanied by a whole series of other strategies , some of which are detailed in this final section . |
| 29 | The preference-belief is then seen to generate , simply by invoking the human precedent , a whole series of other attributes with which ‘ we begin to approach a fair rendering of the mental life of these creatures ’ ( 81 ) : perception , memory , desire , belief , self-consciousness , intention , a sense of the future , emotions , and the capacity to experience pleasure and pain . |
| 30 | I took a whole series of front views of both touring and white water paddlers during forward paddling . |