Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] whole of the " in BNC.

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1 There is something especially satisfactory about using the whole of the fruit in one dish .
2 They might have been using the whole of the attendance allowance erm to pay for carers , outside of the care that we provided , erm or a member of the family might have given up work to look after another member of the family .
3 Instead of hanging the whole of the weight , hang only the left hand hook of the weight , placing it on the right hand stitch about two rows from the top of the knitting .
4 In effect , the scarp has been taken as representing the whole of the Marada unit , since it is commonly capped by a white limestone of post-Burdigalian age and the desert floor below is commonly strewn with Lepidocyclina from the Oligocene ( sometimes neatly sorted by the desert wind into megalosphaeric and microsphaeric forms ) .
5 In both cycles the fostering of sound moral , religious and patriotic attitudes are conceived as permeating the whole of the curriculum . ’
6 Coat with clear preservative , then prime the new timber before painting the whole of the sill .
7 To the south and west a secure boundary was provided by the sheer cliffs and jagged rocks of St Saviour 's Point , while running right down to the edge of the cliffs and enclosing the whole of the rest of the property was a high stone wall built two centuries before by Edmund Roscarrock , the founder of the family line .
8 Building on the trackbed precludes a new service from serving the whole of the former route .
9 Most seamen in trading ships as well as those in the vessels which performed the remarkable feat of transporting the whole of the British Expeditionary Force , together with horses , guns and full equipment to France by September 1914 , profited from the £pound1 increase , while the union threw its full weight behind its undertaking to maintain the supply of seamen .
10 The council agreed that it is a matter for concern that the rates have increased by so much and I have been asked to write to Wyre Borough Council about this and to ask if they would consider paying the whole of the rates for public halls in rural areas as I understand some District Councils do .
11 The Woman turned , pulling the whole of the little group round with her so that they faced the house , towards the mirror which hung over the sofa .
12 A map pack and guide book describing the whole of the Worcestershire Way is available for £2.95 plus 50p postage and packing from Hereford and Worcester County Council Countryside Service .
13 It saw the signing of a contract worth £15.5million with Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company for the construction of a new power signalbox at Three Bridges as part of a £45million scheme for resignalling the whole of the Brighton main line .
14 Sour Ltd is considering buying the whole of the 30% shareholding of the managing director at the agreed offer price of £68,500 , of which £46,500 would be payable in cash and the balance by means of £20,000 9% Debentures Years 60/61 .
15 In 1735 , four years after the first folio edition , an octavo abridgement appeared in two volumes , with plates reduced , but containing the whole of the practical part and species included in the folio .
16 An enormous book , containing the whole of the Middle Ages embodied in these small works .
17 What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now .
18 Rather than having the whole of the public and the press against us , we gained support .
19 This kick gains its effect from having the whole of the body weight behind it .
20 Activity in the two days following Cedric Downes 's release had hardly afforded a model of investigative collaboration , with Morse sleeping through until the late afternoon of the Sunday , then idling away most of the Monday in his office , moodily perusing the documents in the case ; and with Lewis doing the converse , making what he felt had been a fairly significant contribution to the case on the Sunday afternoon , and then spending the whole of the Monday abed , where he had lain dead to the wideawake world , and where , even when Mrs Lewis had gently rocked his shoulder at 6.30 p.m. and quietly breathed the prospect of egg and chips into his ear , he had turned his head over into the pillow and blissfully resumed his slumbers .
21 The nearest beach is only a 150 metre walk away , and there is also a good bus service connecting the whole of the coast .
22 With the American Research and Development budget exceeding the whole of the British Defence vote , we had to become progressively more selective , concentrating on those projects in which success would give us the greatest measure of national independence .
23 The duty to carry out certain services is imposed on local authorities and as such services are of a nature affecting the whole of the country , for example , the police , or trunk roads , it has long been the practice for Central Government to assist the local authority financially .
24 Instead , it is a method of exercising the whole of the body from within .
25 Where the number of shareholders is manageable , or the firm is undertaking the whole of the word processing , then it may be appropriate to arrange for mailing direct from the firm .
26 It was blocking the whole of the car park .
27 … Nobody bothered about what you were doing and there was nothing to stop you getting on your feet and denouncing the whole of the British Empire ’ ( pp. 48 — 9 ) .
28 It 's all a bit confusing now cos we 've I 've just finished altering the whole of the middle of it but this It was a twenty four foot long main lounge .
29 She did not actually remember herself as talking the whole of the time — could there have been silent passages when the words were only reeling through her mind ?
30 After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire .
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