Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson had told Mrs Thrale a little of the four-hundred-year history of Raasay ( or ‘ Raarsa ’ as he calls it ) — and then he divulged that Bonnie Prince Charlie ‘ was hidden in his distress two nights at Raarsa , and the king 's troops burnt the whole country , and killed some of the Cattle ’ . |
| 2 | The passionate desire to prevent war determined the whole initial course and direction of the study . |
| 3 | The material which more than any other influenced the whole course and design of Roman architecture was concrete and this made the vaulting of huge spans possible . |
| 4 | The Judaization of Jerusalem had been under way since the Israelis occupied the whole city in 1967 , but this was the first occasion on which Jews had moved into the Christian Quarter . |
| 5 | But not only have Rickenbacker rotated the whole layout one notch ( front pickup controls forwards and back pickup controls rearwards ) , but the volumes are the two pots furthest away from the player 's hands while the tone controls sit closest to you . |
| 6 | A spokesman said that the French government regarded the whole issue as closed . |