Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [art] whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Catfish may regard the whole tank as his territory and attack anything you put in as competition . |
| 2 | This may cover the whole gamut of emotions , including elation , despair , anger , irritability , anxiety , and inexplicable fear . |
| 3 | In fact ‘ Kubla ’ was the name of their drinking- can , and the pun may strike some people as near-sacrilege ; others may consider the whole thing quite trivial . |
| 4 | ‘ You must think the whole world 's against you at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | I think they should make the whole place a a pedestrian precinct . |
| 6 | Identification of key issues at an early stage should make the whole negotiation process easier and will enable the lawyer to co-ordinate an appropriate team of specialist advisers ( if necessary ) from the outset . |
| 7 | Any plan must cover the whole field . |
| 8 | For example , if your working week is Monday to Friday but you are sick Friday , Saturday and Sunday you must notify the whole absence . |
| 9 | Naturopathy is one of the oldest forms of medicine and is based on four principles : the individuality of the patient , that you should treat the cause of the condition and not just the symptoms , that the body retains the ability to heal itself and that you must treat the whole person and not just an affected area . |
| 10 | Anyway , if a sanitary inspector came in here I should think the whole place would be condemned . ’ |
| 11 | Well , women they must pack the whole wardrobe do n't they ? |
| 12 | That he heard I was so tremendously successful in the Gothic style that if he let me alone I should Gothicize the whole country , &c. , &c. , & c . |
| 13 | Now , is it the intention of the people who asked us to take this action that we should just boycott Nestles products , or we should do the whole range of the conglomerate that owns all these people like Rowntrees and Cross and Blackwell , and many other companies as well . |
| 14 | He must feel the whole world is against him . |
| 15 | This should keep the whole system warm enough even if it is freezing outside . |
| 16 | ‘ No , just trying to decide whether I should take you riding in a horse-drawn carriage through Dyrhaven tomorrow , or whether I should spend the whole day making love to you . ’ |
| 17 | A lunar month defined in this way must contain a whole number of days , but sometimes this was twenty-nine and sometimes thirty . |
| 18 | The powerheads should draw the whole volume of the tank through the filter bed at least three times each hour . |
| 19 | If two or more crewmen are slain then the remaining crew will be unable to cope , so when it shoots the cannon must miss a whole turn before it can shoot again . |
| 20 | Twenty years her junior , the young Lutyens had always nurtured the idea that the garden of a house should complement the whole picture . |
| 21 | If parents are beginning to feel anxious or upset about it then they should abandon the whole attempt until all the worry has died down . |
| 22 | Before we allow him to intrude on to my turf too far , I should set the whole business in its correct credit context . |
| 23 | Furthermore , we keep hearing about other conferences being planned in Paris and in Hannover , Panofsky 's home town , and then we heard there has been a proposal that the International Congress of the History of Art in Berlin ( 15–20 July ) should have a whole section devoted to Panofsky , ( although there has been some disagreement about this recently ) . |
| 24 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 25 | Must have the whole army nearly ! |
| 26 | A good school should educate the whole person not just develop each child 's true potential at GCSE and A level , he said . |
| 27 | I 'm going to brief Major Lower that we should recommend the whole fleet be grounded at least until we 've had time to get this examined in detail and to inspect a few more . ’ |
| 28 | Asked whether the former LAS chief executive , John Wilby , who resigned after London was left without emergency cover , should take the whole blame , Mr Harris , 64 , said : ‘ He was the chief executive at the time . |
| 29 | Such a conception should embrace a whole range of programmes and contents from Shakespeare to Minder , for ‘ without such breadth public service broadcasting can become élitist and authoritarian ’ . |
| 30 | As the Archbishop of York observed : ‘ they have shown that it [ planning ] should embrace the whole country , and that without it we can not make the best use of the limited space in our small island ’ ( p. 160 ) . |