Example sentences of "[vb base] whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you memorize whole texts or dialogues , you are unconsciously practising linking features of paragraphs and discourse . |
| 2 | They say whole hillsides are now being cleared . |
| 3 | In a different poem , George Herbert says : ‘ Sev'n whole days , not one in seven , I will praise thee . ’ |
| 4 | There are some fascinating Class II chain species , such as , where en is ethylenediamine , in which electronic transitions involve whole chains of metal sites . |
| 5 | " If you do n't deal responsibly with the environment " , Collins said , " you can cripple whole economies and devastate whole areas " . |
| 6 | In the spoken mode listeners receive whole utterances . |
| 7 | They are taken and inserted ( ‘ struck ’ ) in the same way as softwood cuttings , although many gardeners remove whole sideshoots , pulling them off the main stem with a short portion of bard ( a ‘ heel ’ ) to aid rooting ; neatly trim any ragged edges on the heel , and pinch out the tips of naturally bushy subjects . |
| 8 | In particular , grazing molluscs leave characteristic erosions from a leaf edge ; birds , particularly the wood-pigeon , feed on clover and often leave characteristic beak-marks ; weevils remove circles of tissue , often leaving the upper epidermis intact ; sheep ( causing damage probably indistinguishable from that caused by rabbits ) remove whole leaves , leaving torn petioles or leave their bite marks on the leaflets that remain . |
| 9 | Cut whole lemons into slices , open-freeze on trays , then pack into polythene bags . |
| 10 | Select whole word : ( Yes ) . |
| 11 | It is now possible to add or remove elements , and modify whole sections of the commercial , by means of computer systems such as ‘ Paintbox ’ — a system that contributed greatly to Peter Greenaway 's feature film Prospero 's Books — or ‘ Harry ’ . |
| 12 | More complex animals usually devote whole cells to receiving light . |
| 13 | ( i ) Expose whole embryos ( with or without their zonae ) , ICMs or other clusters of cells , to 0.9% sodium citrate for periods ranging from 1 to 10 min during which time the cells should swell and loosen their contacts . |
| 14 | Reversing staircases are embroidered with stripes , Rubin 's ambiguous vase/faces emerge from the tottering black-and-white brick walls of Munsterberg 's illusion , reversing cubes become whole reversing sets of vase/faces , in a display of graphic virtuosity which is dazzling in every sense . |
| 15 | What I would advise you to do is not use whole sentences in your notes because then you 'll be tempted to read from the notes . |
| 16 | ‘ Brendan designed it for hop pellets but I only use whole hops . ’ |
| 17 | ( Use whole numbers . ) |
| 18 | It may be argued , for instance , that the ‘ total wars ’ of the twentieth century , because they detach whole populations from their accustomed ways of life , and at the same time impose great sacrifices upon them , give rise to strong reforming movements even in the victorious nations ; and that they have in fact contributed significantly to the development of the welfare state . |
| 19 | " There are teachers who do whole group work and there are others who do small group work , and their approach is very different . " |
| 20 | The way words generate whole clusters of other words can come as another new and interesting idea . |
| 21 | The press scour whole countries for a sighting of the relaxing politician , and friends who might know where he is are propositioned with both money and arguments such as ‘ I am sure you will agree that it would be better for us to find him before the Daily Mirror ’ . |
| 22 | They consume , destroy , and devour whole fields , houses and cities For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest and dearest wool , there noblemen and gentlemen , yea and certain abbots … leave no ground for tillage . |
| 23 | In the towns , markets contain whole sections given over to stalls with a vast variety of herbs and roots for every conceivable ailment from toothache to tuberculosis . |
| 24 | And we are discovering that we are not interested in exploring the finer points of alienation with tea cuppery , but that the theatre can be a bridge of bone between sickness and health — that our language will somehow always be on the edge of poetry and that image and metaphor are our natural tools — they best express whole worlds and histories in collision with each other . |
| 25 | ( a ) Analyse whole embryos . |
| 26 | They are the kind of assumptions which make whole sciences possible and rational , and they can not therefore be tested within these sciences . |
| 27 | They were said to be shaped like squid or octopuses , with many arms that could pluck men from ships , and even drag whole boats to the bottom of the sea . |
| 28 | Many authors have whole bibliographies devoted to them , and there are bibliographies for particular subject areas ( for example , Black British Literature . |
| 29 | Many big Western arms manufacturers have whole departments devoted to arranging barter deals . |
| 30 | The commercial baby foods often have whole peas or pieces of carrot in the puréed food which the child will spit out or refuse to eat . |