Example sentences of "[coord] [art] whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is it the house — or the whole idea ? ’ |
| 2 | Now what happens when your arteries get blocked ? is that you get a pain in the chest , a piece of your heart dies , if you have a heart attack , or the whole heart dies off and you have death . |
| 3 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 4 | The band of gel containing each protein can either be cut out with a razorblade and the radioactivity in it counted , or the whole gel can be placed against X-ray film and an autoradiogram made , just as with the 2-DG experiment . |
| 5 | Or the whole unit can be checked at a single tour , with a limit of 2,000 stock codes on the Psion . |
| 6 | Is it the Training Agency or the whole system of training ? |
| 7 | As a stimulus to reflection and discussion , this could be used to consider the work of a particular team or the whole school . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh Tabby , ’ said Mildred , reaching up and tickling its chin , ‘ I ca n't take you or the whole school will recognize us . ’ |
| 9 | ADAM & EVE — a simple and valuable resource for individual teachers or the whole school . |
| 10 | ‘ Surrender Cameron and Menzies or the whole country will be fired ! ’ |
| 11 | Without this information the appropriateness of the referral practice of individual users or the whole organisation can not be monitored . |
| 12 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 13 | It is reasonable , to start ideas in train in children , to compare an electron with a ping-pong ball , or the whole atom with a tiny solar system ; but the longer you stay with homely parallels , the harder it ultimately becomes for the child to move out of the imagery of pong-pong balls and into an appreciation that atoms are n't really like that at all . |
| 14 | Final evaluation of the wound is done once that part of the body or the whole patient is anaesthetised . |
| 15 | In the first two versions , you can choose the frequency of the words to be blanked out ( ‘ every fifth word in the text ’ , for example ) and the program will blank out either half of the word or the whole word . |
| 16 | A badly damaged object may have been repaired , or the whole object may be a confection of previously unassociated fragments . |
| 17 | Politics came to be seen as a social and collective activity which rose above the individual but which somehow fell short of the ideal of the nation or the whole community . |
| 18 | But someone has to do it , or the whole house would crumble around us . |
| 19 | Body language is extensive and can be conveyed by the attitude or the whole body or just by a small part of it . |
| 20 | They were far more interested in how the whole image , or the whole perception came about . |
| 21 | This is inflammation and infection of the breast which sometimes follows cracked nipples and shows itself by pain , redness of a part or the whole breast , swelling , and fever . |
| 22 | Because the ministry has been brought into being by God , the result is that it bears fruit , whether it is among the gentiles in Pisidian Antioch or the whole group of hearers in Lystra . |
| 23 | THE European Community has 12 months in which to achieve a breakthrough to full economic and monetary union or the whole project may have to be put on ice until the end of the next decade . |
| 24 | Key to this stage of planning is the acceptance ( once again ) that there must be some time limits given to each ‘ activity ’ , or the whole project will become lopsided and wo n't be completed in time . |
| 25 | Suppose the U K government has decided that it can not free-ride on other governments : either it pays its share of launch aid or the whole project collapses . |
| 26 | In the name of all the saints , I conjure you to open this door , or the whole town will be in the hands of the Devil by nightfall ! ’ |
| 27 | There is , after all , a limit to the number of schools or hospitals in a town that you can go to without everyone getting bored or the whole business seeming increasingly contrived . |
| 28 | Where the terrain increases in difficulty , or the whole party is forced onto the same flank , the leader climber can place sling and nut runners , which are clipped back down the rope and collected by the last member . |
| 29 | Those issues all interact , of course ; like those fiendish three-dimensional puzzles that children can often do more easily than adults , the pieces have to be put together simultaneously , or the whole thing falls apart . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a shade of pink which we had to get , or the whole thing would have looked wrong . |