Example sentences of "[verb] whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spate it was a terrifying torrent which uprooted whole trees and smashed them to driftwood ; in drought it was an evil-tempered stream which grudged them water and tugged the pots from her hands if she did not hold them with all her strength . |
| 2 | When you memorize whole texts or dialogues , you are unconsciously practising linking features of paragraphs and discourse . |
| 3 | You can marinate the skinned and boned whole breasts in the marinade for the same time , or slice into think steaks and flatten them into very thin paillards . |
| 4 | They say whole hillsides are now being cleared . |
| 5 | Italians can not write two bars of song without changing key , yet Lully writes whole scenes without doing so . |
| 6 | It was a local concern , employing whole families , and everyone knew that in order to flourish they must give it their all . |
| 7 | Basing whole group work on a community is a relatively simple way of organising a drama project . |
| 8 | In number theory too there ws interest in representing whole numbers by , amongst other things , binary quadratic forms unc and in quantities such as unc which remain unchanged when in unc are replaced by unc where α , β , γ , δ are integers and αδ -βγ = 1 . |
| 9 | Also strewn across the complicated ceiling with the prism ports , obscuring whole sections of the barrelled structure , fume ducts writhed like immense square-flanked metal snakes , their grilled , barred mouths sucking the kitchens ' vapours away to be vented high in some converted turret . |
| 10 | The team found whole communities in Sunderland for whom unemployment was a way of life , and among whom a |
| 11 | So far , however , the crofters in the Western Isles have preferred to purchase only the house sites and pass on their rights to their families , although in other areas where the land is better there has been greater interest in purchasing whole crofts . |
| 12 | If the input segments were correctly and uniquely specified then the tree structure could be used to process left to right through the input , gradual eliminating whole sub-trees through the mismatch of a branch of the tree with the acoustic input , thus exploiting the syntagmatic relations of the language system . |
| 13 | Generally the commonest marsh tern and the only water bird that has whole head and body black or greyish black , relieved only by white of under tail coverts ; bill black , legs reddish . |
| 14 | She has whole passages of Aurora Leigh by heart , or so it often seems . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Generally frozen pasta has whole egg in it , giving it a softer , smoother texture which goes well with cream and lighter tasting sauces . ’ |
| 16 | Abbé Sieyès has whole nests of pigeon-holes full of constitutions ready made , ticketed , sorted , and numbered ; suited to every season and every fancy ; some with the top of the pattern at the bottom , and some with the bottom at the top ; some plain , some flowered , some distinguished for their simplicity , others for their complexity ; some with councils of elders , and councils of youngsters ; some without any council at all . |
| 17 | In a different poem , George Herbert says : ‘ Sev'n whole days , not one in seven , I will praise thee . ’ |
| 18 | He similarly used whole word shape constraints to aid recognition . |
| 19 | They 're not hard once you understand what you 're doing how you get it because you 're sharing out but they 're probably the most awkward when you 've got mixed whole numbers counting numbers and fractions all in together . |
| 20 | Also , a memory bank forming part of an image display system holds whole numbers , not fractions . ) |
| 21 | Instead of having to transcribe I can now photocopy whole pages of books and documents . |
| 22 | They can , with imagination , be adapted to a whole range of uses — residential , retail , business — becoming whole communities within themselves . |
| 23 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 24 | Oh , I built whole fantasies round you , I imagined what it would be like to have a child , to have had you as my son . |
| 25 | Yet I did not know which to trust : the splintered yet separately concrete vision of myself each man offered me which was the product of his necessary fantasy ; or the amorphous , difficult to establish whole self which struggled to say that his vision of me and mine through his , had distorted it . |
| 26 | Neil Kinnock exorcised whole covens of militants , dumped the unilateralist millstone , and replaced the old guard of the seventies with eager young men in bright ties . |
| 27 | There are some fascinating Class II chain species , such as , where en is ethylenediamine , in which electronic transitions involve whole chains of metal sites . |
| 28 | Those concerned were anxious that instead of recommending or condemning whole ranges of foods outright , balanced , moderate eating patterns should be encouraged . |
| 29 | " If you do n't deal responsibly with the environment " , Collins said , " you can cripple whole economies and devastate whole areas " . |
| 30 | You 'd , you 'd whole life wondering what they were all doing |