Example sentences of "of the whole [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 2 | Since many sediments contain mixtures of gravels , sands and finer particles the dry sieving technique may be appropriate for examination of only part of the whole assemblage of particles . |
| 3 | But it is also a history which tries to take account of the whole range of factors that shape human societies , from the character of their physical environments to sporadic peasant rebellions . |
| 4 | Little or no account is taken of such corporate entities as manufacturers ' associations , the City of London and the educational system ; or of the whole range of institutions which sustain the British social system . |
| 5 | Administrative receivership has to be viewed in the context of the whole range of remedies now available in situations where a company is , or is likely to become , unable to pay its debts . |
| 6 | Hourcade also saw as a second feature of Cubist painting the organization of the whole surface in terms of interpenetrating or interacting planes : ‘ The fascination of the paintings lies not only in the presentation of the main objects represented , but in the dynamism which emerges from the composition , a strange , disturbing dynamism , but one that is perfectly controlled . ’ |
| 7 | And finally , there 's no one with a more impressive grasp of the whole field of geophysics on Earth — or the Moon for that matter ( as his recent article ‘ The Moon 's deceptive tranquility ’ in New Scientist , vol 96 , p 174 , testifies ) . |
| 8 | And therefore y er in a sense he was , he was acting on the basis of a false premise and therefore the wh sort of the whole set of conclusions he draws could 've been wrong . |
| 9 | But management still lay , in Britain , more with LEAs than with heads or governors because in schools — primary , secondary or special — daily management was still at some distance from the control of finance , from the decision about a school 's total allocation of teaching staff , from the establishment of policies and schemes of priority in the school 's curriculum and organization and from the presentation of the whole picture of aims , methods and performance to parents and to other members of the local community . |
| 10 | In other words , a complete picture of the structure of competition must be built up from consideration of the location and form of the whole chain of activities that go together to make up a business . |
| 11 | It was noted that some staff were not aware of the whole background of questions and had found it difficult to reply to the questionnaire . |
| 12 | Although our sample may not be rigorously representative of the whole population with complications of reflux it is representative of the population presenting to physicians and surgeons with a gastroenterological intrest . |
| 13 | One in particular strongly reinforced this strong sense of the essential unity of the whole body of believers , despite the accidents of time — the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi . |
| 14 | The Royal Dutch Navy made a detailed survey of the whole group of islands immediately after the eruption , and the maps they produced revealed the full extent of the effects of the explosions which had reverberated round so much of the world . |
| 15 | For instance , apart from the group labelled ‘ other neurotics ’ , a high rate of broken homes was characteristic of the whole group of adults with disorders when compared to child guidance patients found to be well as adults . |
| 16 | It was found that 22 per cent of the whole group of children were thought to need a substitute family ; and permanent substitute families were being sought for nearly three-quarters of these . |