Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] whole of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | B was substituted as the company 's debtor , and then repaid the whole of the £79,000 . |
| 2 | Er what he did n't do which is which is very sensible and what has failed for other companies is that he did n't decide this is a good idea I 'll have somebody in Newcastle and somebody in Edinburgh and I 'll have somebody , in other words he gradually built the whole of the business out until he reached London by which time he he 'd a hell of exp er a lot of experience and knowledge about this thing 's going . |
| 3 | The report then went to Finance Committee , and I believe it actually referred the whole of the Report to the Party Groups , now . |
| 4 | The garden had been built by his great-great-grandfather , but , like his father and his father 's father , he had made his own small changes to the original scheme , extending the garden to the north , so that it now filled the whole of the ancient island of Manhattan . |
| 5 | This has had a much more drastic effect on the reservoir quality of the rocks than vadose compaction or early cementation , as it affected the whole of the Hauptdolomit rather than just the upper portion ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 6 | The Robins dominated the whole of the game but were unable to create a single clear cut chance , writes MARK CURRIE . |
| 7 | By the afternoon of the 7th , to the accompaniment of barrages enveloping the whole sector that seemed to reach a crescendo of fury , the Germans captured the whole of the Bois des Corbeaux ; including the wounded Colonel of the 211th , saved no doubt from savage disgrace himself by a spirited last-ditch defence . |
| 8 | I enjoyed the whole of the Chuck Berry interview — I only wish we 'd had longer . |
| 9 | Within hours of his arrival , Coleridge was listening to Wordsworth recite a substantial new poem called ‘ The Ruined Cottage ’ ; after tea Coleridge replied with two and a half acts of Osorio , and in the morning followed the whole of The Borderers , Wordsworth 's north country tragedy . |
| 10 | Earlier this year , I heard the whole of the debate about health care reduced by the media to just four words . |
| 11 | Contrariety will only appear here if it is specified that apples ( or pears ) constituted the whole of the purchase : All I bought were some apples/pears . |
| 12 | They were con-men who work the black market and although they spent the whole of the next day in Irkutsk taking me to lunch , visiting a host of Siberian churches and museums and organising a trip to the opera , their interest was in valutta — hard currency — not culture . |
| 13 | Likewise in setting up a drama for an already excitable ten-year-old class on their chosen topic of a haunted house , I spent the whole of the first lesson as a pub proprietor refusing to show them how to find the house . |
| 14 | My husband Mike and I spent the whole of the following week opening mail , printing diet sheets and letters of instruction and stuffing envelopes . |
| 15 | That union supported me as I recruited the whole of the workforce and er , I was then sacked after four weeks ! |
| 16 | That day Moshe Arens , the Defence Minister , ordered the whole of the occupied territories to be sealed off , effectively preventing over 100,000 Palestinians from gaining access to their jobs . |
| 17 | Although disease was now increasingly defined as an internal malfunction of the body , its causes included the whole of the social and moral history of the nation : |
| 18 | Eventually the Orcs sent to the east for reinforcements , and a huge Orc army headed up towards the Black Fire Pass from the Badlands , which in those days encompassed the whole of the area which would come to be known as the Border Princes . |
| 19 | Originally the ‘ social railway ’ encompassed the whole of the passenger service . |
| 20 | In the UK , until the so-called marginal areas were brought into an extended LFA early in 1984 , only one zone of handicap covered the whole of the LFA , ranging from relatively fertile grass pastures almost at sea level to the summits of Britain 's highest mountains . |
| 21 | The beams from these two heaters covered the whole of the lambing pen , 18ft. x 6ft. in area , which Peter also covered with a liberal quantity of straw on the floor . |
| 22 | A prices and incomes accord , negotiated in 1983 , had ( with several revisions ) covered the whole of the Hawke government 's period in office and was credited by its advocates with having created 300,000 jobs , reduced real unit labour costs and underpinned one of the longest periods of industrial harmony in the country 's history . |
| 23 | It 's the last member of a family of plants which covered the whole of the temporate world . |
| 24 | They lit the whole of the high table , startling the prince 's grave face into gaiety . |
| 25 | In March I gave the whole of the plot a dressing of blood , fish and bone fertiliser . |
| 26 | The Document Examination Room , which occupied the whole of the front of the building immediately under the roof , smelled like a stationer 's shop , a pungent amalgam of paper and ink , sharpened by the tang of chemicals . |
| 27 | They had the wedding in the big upper room that occupied the whole of the second floor of their Auntie 's pub . |
| 28 | Samuel 's father left the whole of the family property to another son , by his first wife , observing that Samuel ‘ had brains enough to work his own way ’ . |
| 29 | Often , he came home exhausted at dawn and slept the whole of the day away . |
| 30 | She had the whole of the second floor completely to herself . |