Example sentences of "whole [noun] [prep] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not that Jarvis was asking much rent , in fact no estate agent would have believed what he was asking , but the whole point of letting bits of the school was to get enough for him to live on , indeed to get to Cairo and ride on the new 42.5 kilometre , 33-station ENR . |
| 2 | The animals failed to draw blood but , two weeks later , she was still so worried about getting her fingers bitten that she admitted to finding the whole business of pushing letters through a letter box as nerve-wracking , in its own way , as trying to hole a four footer . |
| 3 | He had a great appreciation of their visual appeal and he started the whole revolution of using photographs on their own merit and not merely to fill up space . ’ |
| 4 | Current educational thinking is moving away from the whole concept of labelling children by closely defined categories , and the emphasis is rather on the individual needs of children and on the shared aspects of their development and learning . |
| 5 | The whole concept of conserving resources for the future has developed since then and now people are considering the ethical aspect of our relationship with animals . |
| 6 | Buys and sells anything , from the odd tanker — load of cut-price petrol to the whole output of washing machines from some factory that 's going bust . |
| 7 | Although social workers were trained in dealing with stress , said Mr Gower , the whole subject of removing children from their parents was no less emotive for them than for other members of the community . |
| 8 | By the summer of 1940 , the Central Council for Jewish Refugees was again feeling the pinch , with the result that the government accepted , in principle , the responsibility for the whole cost of maintaining refugees at scales to be agreed and seventy-five per cent of the cost of administration . |
| 9 | The important aspect of Johnson 's statement is that he dismisses the whole phenomenon of labouring poets as misapplied patronage . |
| 10 | Some say it was the importing of whole streets of fighting families from the fishquays , with their dockland diversions of prostitution , drug-dealing and handling . |