Example sentences of "whole [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 2 | Most artists would revel in such adulation , especially when the film is followed by a special concert that is to be televised and includes a whole gang of celebrities paying their musical respects . |
| 3 | What he wanted now was a normal married life away from uniforms , fighting , and the whole insanity of men being paid to kill their fellow-men . |
| 4 | ‘ But ask me the same question tomorrow and I could give a whole litany of things . |
| 5 | His horse put up waterfowl and once disturbed a whole field of rabbits that scampered in panic towards the hedgerows . |
| 6 | And finally , there 's no one with a more impressive grasp of the whole field of geophysics on Earth — or the Moon for that matter ( as his recent article ‘ The Moon 's deceptive tranquility ’ in New Scientist , vol 96 , p 174 , testifies ) . |
| 7 | An outstanding example of this occurs in the whole field of petrochemicals . |
| 8 | And now , she thought ( because I have in spite of all , a heart ) : I weep for him , because of him , a whole waterfall of diamonds … |
| 9 | There was a whole level of things here that he had been totally unaware of . |
| 10 | It would seem to be inappropriate for the criminal law to remove a whole category of persons from its protection on the basis of words spoken at a ceremony of marriage which have no binding force . |
| 11 | The UK would thus eliminate a whole category of weapons in its nuclear arsenal . |
| 12 | At Naba we were overtaken by the hospital train and discovered that their food supply had run out , so we handed over a whole case of sausages and one of tinned peaches . |
| 13 | After Gerald Williams had caught Pontypool on the hop with a 16th minute try , converted by Mark Wyatt , the Kiwi import changed the whole course of events . |
| 14 | From this it is evident that if Negus Mikael had advanced immediately after seizing Ankober , when the army of Fitaurari Habta Giorgis was still far from complete he would have stood a very good chance of entering Addis Ababa , in which case the whole course of events would have been altered . |
| 15 | When the miller unleashes this stallion to plunge straight off after the wild mares in the fen ( 4057 – 66 ) he unwittingly unleashes the whole course of events that will lead to the " swyvinges " in his family 's bedchamber that night . |
| 16 | A whole mass of events and emotions accompanied each trip to the cinema . |
| 17 | On the following day The Times demanded the formation of " Conservative Guards " who were to be drawn from " the whole mass of householders " . |
| 18 | To ensure that the crisis of February could never be repeated , Pétain employed the equivalent of more than a whole division of men permanently mending the road . |
| 19 | Again the idea is taken farther : we hear a whole suite of dances , badly harmonised ( perhaps ! ) . |
| 20 | He says that there will be cuts across the whole spectrum of services . |
| 21 | This question has given rise to a whole spectrum of views , whose exponents are united by two traits : their desire to explain why an industrial revolution occurred in Britain and not in other comparable nations , and their adherence to the Millean method of difference . |
| 22 | It is good to be able to talk to somebody who has experienced the whole spectrum of drugs because then they know what the hell you 're talking about , y'know . |
| 23 | They do not learn effectively from the written word ; and listening to children reading aloud will invariably uncover a whole spectrum of difficulties concerned not only with vocabulary but with the ways in which words are strung together and the ways in which , even in straightforward narrative or information text , sentences cohere and relate . |
| 24 | Now before Neil starts panicking and worrying about that , bear in mind that that is spread over the whole spectrum of operations , including things like heart transplants and the like , and also , for example , an elderly person who 's just been smashed up by er Astra G T E |
| 25 | In addition , from the Soviet point of view , ‘ Within the whole spectrum of measures taken to promote trade between the USSR and Latin America , of greatest importance have been the agreements reached between the USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chambers of Commerce in some Latin American countries including Argentina , Brazil , Peru , Colombia and Mexico ’ ( Zinoviev : 1981 , pp. 101–2 ) . |
| 26 | Thus many third and fourth generation computers provide a range of facilities ( such as several data-types ) in an attempt to cover the whole spectrum of applications in one design . |
| 27 | They represent a haphazard seizing of opportunities rather than rational provision of a network to meet the whole spectrum of walkers ' needs . |
| 28 | These negotiate with their age ( and with subsequent ages ) through a process of these mirrorlike exchanges , ones which cover a whole spectrum of representations . |
| 29 | Erm er it 's basically that there is no stated requirement at present from any of the four nations , for this aircraft to operate on ships er back in the early days of the programme when the the French were involved er we looked at the possibility of designing an aircraft er to provide the whole spectrum of capabilities from air defence er ground attack and also maritime operations off ships and er we we certainly experienced some difficulties in reconciling all those things in one design , which was adequately capable in each of the areas . |
| 30 | You will have educated your stomach — and your taste buds — to appreciate a whole spectrum of foods rich in low-fat protein , fibre and complex carbohydrates . |