Example sentences of "of a whole [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of a whole company of soldiers ! |
| 2 | Arcadelt was more successful than Verdelot in catching Italian dolcezza e soavita , particularly in such pieces as ‘ O felici occhi miei ’ , although of course less so than the native Italians : for instance , Festa in ‘ Cosi suav' è'l; foco et dolce il nodo ’ , and Domenico Ferrabosco , earliest of a whole dynasty of musicians , in his very popular setting of Boccaccio 's ‘ Io mi son giovinetta ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I think we should be thinking in terms of a whole platoon of insiders . |
| 4 | A spokesman for the Department of Employment said : ‘ This was not a one-off study , but part of a whole range of studies undertaken for the Department by the SCPR . |
| 5 | The negative failure to object , or to opt out , may signify one of a whole range of reactions : fear or prudence in the face of power , indifference , paralysis of the will , sullen resignation , sheer hopelessness , a feeling of ignorance , or habits of subservience . |
| 6 | Secondly , there has been some recognition that unemployment and job creation should be the concern of a whole range of agencies and departments , not just the DED and its off-shoots . |
| 7 | It is practical activity that is important ; the handling of a whole range of materials . |
| 8 | This was achieved , however , on the basis of enormous subsidies — both direct in the form of support prices and indirect in the form of a whole range of grants and allowances — which sustained a high-cost agriculture when judged in international terms . |
| 9 | At one level , market economics involves gross simplification and , in particular , misunderstands the nature of and essential need for the political process in the provision of a whole range of goods ( public goods ) such as education and health [ Shonfield , 1984 ] . |
| 10 | The agenda for reform on this issue is made up of a whole range of possibilities . |
| 11 | Soft solder is of course an aid to artefact manufacture as opposed to a raw material for overall construction , and is one of a whole range of alloys with more specialised applications in metalwork . |
| 12 | But on top of that one must then look into the future , the future supply of such properties , and the future o er of a whole range of issues which may occur locally and which can only really be decided by the district councils in their local plan work . |
| 13 | Churches are only one example of a whole range of buildings becoming redundant , which includes railway stations , textile mills , hospitals and great naval dockyards . |
| 14 | Schools have to attempt to satisfy the conflicting demands of a whole range of individuals and groups . |
| 15 | We 're not gon na be looking at it this morning , but it 's quite simple if you were to read on down , the reason why is because on the other side there is a man there who is possessed of a whole legion of demons who desperately needs deliverance and Jesus is going over there to bring healing , to bring deliverance to this man . |
| 16 | The concept serves as an integral part of a whole mesh of ideas and beliefs , leading from one part of the net to another . |
| 17 | It 's one of a whole plague of M-words though : MIP-TV , MIDEM and no doubt others . |
| 18 | However , an evaluation of rural depopulation needs to take account of a whole variety of factors . |
| 19 | Even worse has been the invention of a whole pseudo-history of roads and tracks based on the tracing of communication across large areas of countryside and explaining the results in terms of prehistoric ways or medieval roads . |
| 20 | The imagery imprinted itself on the minds of a whole generation of parents who had lost young children . |
| 21 | As we have seen , a matte is basically a mask ( for example , a black card , or a painting on glass left partially clear ) that blacks off a part of the frame or , usually , part of a whole succession of frames . |
| 22 | However , it is worth a little further attention because it is a recent example of a whole group of theories that come under the umbrella heading of panspermia . |
| 23 | This is essentially a phenomenon of domestic cats , because the territories of wild cats are so much bigger , and the chances of a whole group of tom-cats coming together in one spot when a wild female is on heat are more remote . |
| 24 | It would be hard to imagine an accumulation of competitive encounters between individuals that led to the extinction of a whole group of animals distributed worldwide . |
| 25 | In other words it provides the context , but the actual shape and form of local politics is the outcome of a whole number of processes operating at both the local and the national level . |
| 26 | Electromagnetic radiation oscillating v times a second turns out to be made up of a whole number of packets of energy , each of amount unc where h is Planck 's celebrated constant . |
| 27 | Similarly where no such trust has been brought about : if , say , a child 's family disintegrates it may well be but the beginning of a whole sequence of misfortunes and unsatisfactory care arrangements in institutions and foster homes . |
| 28 | It does the work of a whole set of saucepans and when used separately it gives you a SAUCEPAN , a CASSEROLE , a BAIN MARIE , a STEAMER , and a COLANDER . |
| 29 | The message I draw from this is that the gay movement is not ultimately about the liberation of any particular sexuality but actually about the liberation of a whole set of relationships ; an affirmation of relationships which are sexual or non-sexual , relationships through which sexuality can be realized or transformed or denied or changed or just lived . |
| 30 | The second part of this series investigates the new reproductive and genetic technologies , that is , developments in the sphere of human reproduction , and will look at how pro-fertility and anti-fertility technologies ( such as hormonal contraceptives ) are two sides of population control , and , how the use of science , scientific principles and technology are directly and indirectly being used to serve the aims of a whole host of interests at the expense of women . |