Example sentences of "a whole [noun] [prep] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK would thus eliminate a whole category of weapons in its nuclear arsenal . |
| 2 | This was a development which also disseminated throughout northern England the idiosyncratic customs of the clergy of the Celtic regions of the British Isles which the Church of Rome , as it comprehended them over time , came increasingly to view as schismatic — not simply a different , more archaic method of calculating the date of Easter ( which Iona retained long after other Irish communities had abandoned it ) , but a whole range of differences in ritual practice and , in the absence of an established ecclesiastical hierarchy of bishops and archbishops , a barely recognizable ecclesiastical order . |
| 3 | A whole range of initiatives in pre-school settings has been described ( Smith 1981 , Tizard et al 1981 , Raven 1980 , Wolfendale 1983 ) with attempts made by these writers and others to put observed practice into theoretical and conceptual frameworks . |
| 4 | This chapter has provided information on the difficulty levels of tasks from a whole range of topics in the Cockcroft foundation list . |
| 5 | There were also a whole range of ways in which children could contribute to the household economy through domestic labour and child care , both within their own households , and as part of the pattern of exchange between kin and neighbours . |
| 6 | There is a whole range of ways in which a hearer could recover the required parallelisms . |
| 7 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 8 | A whole range of tracks in fact . |
| 9 | Sometimes people have um a whole variety of symptoms in later life and perhaps as a consequence of some sort of therapy , some sort of consciousness raising exercise , something like that erm they are not necessarily aware at the start that they 've been abused but sometimes they feel y'know a very compelling sense of memories flooding back . |
| 10 | They will be affected for the rest of their lives by the kind of diet which is condemned by nutritionists all over the world as likely to lead to a whole variety of illnesses in later life . |
| 11 | Apart from humiliating a whole generation of adults in front of their more adept offspring , Rubik 's brilliant invention has sparked off some new thinking about how people solve problems . |
| 12 | Such a procedure is much more difficult when applied to a whole system of taboos in the way Freud does in Totem and Taboo . |
| 13 | The alarm pheromone of the weaver ant is a complex message stimulating a whole series of responses in its nestmates . |
| 14 | He wrote a whole series of novels in which the characters personified some of his leading insights . |
| 15 | ‘ There has been a whole series of events in the last year going against the hill sheep farmer , and this could be one of the final straws . ’ |
| 16 | Flagelliflory , the presentation of flowers on long peduncles , occurs in several unrelated groups and is generally associated with bat pollination , but a whole family of plants in a wide range of habitats in tropical America has all its species bat-pollinated with the flowers projecting above the canopy ; namely the Caryocaraceae . |
| 17 | He was about to tell the Headmaster the Bookman had a whole box of questions in his home but stopped himself in time . |
| 18 | Tonal series are designed to contain note-groups of a triadic nature , or to have a whole group of notes in the same key . |
| 19 | I am also concerned that if these new unitary authorities come into effect , it seems er reasonable to assume the majority of members will be all the district councillors er whose involvement in planning of course is very different to our own and therefore their understanding of strategic planning , their appreciation of its importance will be far less and we could actually find that these planning committees authorities are really old district planning committees and the new and er there really could be quite serious implications for a whole number of things in Sussex I mean we know that the planning department is at the moment trying to erm create er a new and vibrant |
| 20 | Well , I 've trailed my coat , I 've said a whole lot of things in hopefully to intrigue you , to start you off , merely in terms of rather positive public relations , the media are good and they 're lovely and you ought to encourage them , and really , my message in the very first part is what I started off with . |
| 21 | But on the other hand as is often the case , there 's so much that you 've got you do n't need , that when you finish your removal you want a whole lot of boxes in the corner out the way until you 've sorted er everything else out . |