Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [art] whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , the orbit as a whole twists a little further round each time , so that a true drawing of the planet 's course should really look more like one of the patterns produced by a children 's Spirograph toy . |
| 2 | In general this was the pattern for Polish industrialisation as a whole — a phenomenon that took place when there was the least chance of Poland ever regaining an independent existence . |
| 3 | It is therefore necessary when conducting a survey of a flat to examine the lease to see what each owner is liable to pay for the upkeep of the building as a whole , to cross-question the managing agents on foreseeable charges , and to make some assessment of the state of the structure as a whole by looking in the roof space , checking for cracks in halls , staircases , basements and external walls . |
| 4 | Any fire resisting compartment wall , and in fact , the architecture of the building as a whole should be designed and positioned with this in mind . |
| 5 | Building Regulations dealt with progressive collapse and effect of fire on a building as a whole |
| 6 | However , it seems that although the exemption can only be waived on a building-by-building basis , if the exemption is waived for a building as a whole , but if a lease of part of the building prohibits the addition of VAT , the landlord will have to account to Customs & Excise for VAT out of the net rent . |
| 7 | But since Russia 's agriculture is a peasant agriculture … our economic policies objectively conflicted with the development of agriculture as a whole . |
| 8 | … and you can see that agriculture as a whole is in a pretty sorry state of affairs . |
| 9 | Will he undertake that when he and my right hon. Friend the Minister go to Brussels next week for that crucial meeting , they will continue to fight for British agriculture as a whole and not bend over backwards to please MacSharry , as the Opposition would do ? |
| 10 | The opening of Leçon de choses , significantly entitled ‘ Générique ’ , can almost be said to provide a poetics of the autonomous , self-referential text , such is the emphasis upon the creative power of words : a description is composed which will generate the text as a whole and which also acts as a self-reflexive commentary on this process . |
| 11 | Generally , in looking at style in a text , one is not interested in choices in isolation , but rather at a pattern of choices : something that belongs to the text as a whole . |
| 12 | It is nevertheless imperative that we view the text as a whole both at the beginning and at the end of the process . |
| 13 | In the context of travel , location provides a natural point of orientation around which the text as a whole can be organized . |
| 14 | I shall then discuss two theories of literary language and of the literary text as a whole , which were developed under the joint influence of Saussure and the Russian Formalists . |
| 15 | As Mukařovský wrote ( Garvin 1964 : 22 ) : The task of the structuralist analyst is therefore to identify deviations from existing linguistic and literary practice ( ‘ norms ’ ) occurring at one level of the text ( say its syntax ) , and then relate the structure of this level to that of the other levels ( rhythm , syllable-structure , aspects of subject matter , etc. ) , in order to define the structure of the text as a whole . |
| 16 | To illustrate Jakobson 's approach to these texts , let us take his analysis ( with L.G. Jones ) of Shakespeare 's Sonnet cxxix , ‘ Th'Expence of Spirit ’ ( 1970 ) : The analysis considers in turn the following relationships of equivalence and contrast ( which evidently depends on and emphasizes equivalence ) in the poem ( the spelling and punctuation follow the first edition ) : ( 1 ) those which oppose the first seven lines to the last seven ; ( 2 ) those which are constant features of the text as a whole ; ( 3 ) those which oppose strophes I and III to II and IV ; ( 4 ) those which oppose strophes I and IV to ( I and III ( the outer and the inner ) ; ( 5 ) those which oppose strophes I and II to III and IV ; ( 6 ) those which oppose the final couplet to the rest of the poem ; and ( 7 ) those which oppose the middle couplet ( lines 7 and 8 ) to the rest of the poem . |
| 17 | Individual points about style are always made in the context of a discussion of the feelings , attitudes or ideas that the text as a whole expresses , a discussion which is inevitably to a large extent intuitive and impressionistic . |
| 18 | It is Milton 's portrayal of the devil which is magnificent , not the devil himself , but the author is careful enough to place Satan 's admirable qualities within the text as a whole showing them to be put to evil use . |
| 19 | It is clear from these brief analyses that the nature and scope of the context that is constructed for each individual poem does not simply depend on the choice of deictic expressions in the text , but rather results from the combined effect of a wide range of variables , including the content of the text as a whole , and the attitudes and experiences that readers bring to the text or develop during reading . |
| 20 | Whilst it is hoped that this text as a whole will contribute to the development of the personal qualities necessary for successful salesmanship , this chapter concentrates specifically on those aspects of international selling with which a firm either exporting or contemplating the same should be familiar . |
| 21 | The story as a whole only begins to make sense when the reader appreciates that , in appropriate circumstances , all these roles might be filled by one and the same individual . |
| 22 | In this regard , perhaps the most significant point of agreement between the two versions is the correct selection of sentence ( i ) by the students as an opening : Interestingly , this sentence , in the context of the story as a whole , satisfies the criteria for a well-formed Abstract . |
| 23 | First , is every director wholly committed to the concept of the accountability of the board as a whole , primarily to shareholders but also to other constituencies ? |
| 24 | I start with the view that the final responsibility for the future of the company depends upon the board as a whole , and therefore the direction in which the company is to be led is the unique responsibility of that board . |
| 25 | On non-executive directors ' role , commented that ‘ in a unitary board both executive and non-executive directors are responsible for the board decision and the board as a whole is responsible when wrong decisions are made . |
| 26 | Whilst boards of directors may delegate the day to day conduct of an offer to individual directors or committees of directors , the board as a whole must ensure that proper arrangements are in place to enable it to monitor that conduct in order that each director may fulfil that responsibility . |
| 27 | For his part , David Simon , the group chief executive , and his six fellow executive managing directors , are responsible for formulating strategy for the board as a whole to consider , as well as for the conduct of BP 's day-to-day business . |
| 28 | It recognised that , with educational provision as a whole in a transitional phase , still recovering from the war and still adjusting to the requirements of the 1944 Act , it was inappropriate to ‘ set a course for adult education over the rest of this century ’ : ‘ our recommendations apply to the present transitional period ’ . |
| 29 | The first interpretation can be arrived at by reading the provision as a whole ( judges are appointed during good behaviour , and the two Houses are the sole judges of bad behaviour ) . |
| 30 | For example a curriculum leader in a small primary school leads a small group to scrutinise a selection of pupils ' work from different year groups to examine progression and continuity and their relation to the National Curriculum a department in a secondary school reviews its curricular provision ; assesses the implications of the National Curriculum for that subject ; analyses policies and practice on pupil assessment ; analyses examination/test results ; reviews pupils ' written work to check on progression and continuity a team considers relations with parents and the wider community the head , a deputy or a senior teacher leads a working party on topics such as cross-curricular issues , curriculum provision as a whole , pupil attendance , school documentation the staff development or INSET co-ordinator leads a working party to review staff development , INSET provision and dissemination , teacher appraisal , care of probationer teachers ( DES 1989e:8 ) . |