Example sentences of "entirely [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Eventually , I found a young hospital registrar who said , not entirely as a joke : ‘ I expect we 'll find a cupboard for her ’ .
2 One of the most remarkable things about the Peniel story is that the larger narrative proceeds almost entirely as if it was not there .
3 All schools could identify additional resources , ( for instance , computers , a music laboratory , enhanced INSET , staff ) that had been purchased and which were perceived to be available entirely as a result of devolution .
4 In the words of the circular issued by the Ministry of Health ( 1961 ) : ‘ Attempted suicide is in the future to be regarded entirely as a medical and social problem … .
5 In addition , its support for the Tunnel project is based on the firm understanding that it can succeed entirely as a private venture .
6 This gaseous emission may be constant , but frequently it comes entirely as a response to a predatorial nibble .
7 The FRED retains the proposal made in the Discussion Paper , which was supported by the majority of respondents , that convertible debt should be accounted for entirely as a liability until such time as it is actually converted , in preference to methods which seek to reflect the dual nature of convertible debt as part liability and part equity .
8 The Great Battle can not be told entirely as a series of truth statements : the Gospel is not philosophy .
9 Indeed it will be described almost entirely as a liability because the costs will be known .
10 It is often spoken by a presenter who may never appear on the screen but is heard partly or entirely as " voice over " .
11 The world has always looked to Britain for stability , inventiveness and general mental agility , yet our National Prestige is low , our currency is less than one third of its immediate post-war value against the dollar and can not be explained entirely as a result of market speculation .
12 Under that system I used the first term almost entirely as a preparation for the teaching practice itself .
13 Thereafter his war service was entirely as a staff officer .
14 The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast .
15 In the Soviet Union successions to the general secretaryship after Stalin were achieved in a relatively orderly fashion but entirely as an internal party matter with no element of public choice .
16 It has come about entirely as a result of privatisation .
17 It 's er almost two years ago now that erm , and it , I 'd like you to wait , but not entirely as a consequence of B C C I 's er , demise , that Citra published a code of practice to Treasury Management and a guide to the Chief Officers who were members of that Institution .
18 Alcohol has edged down from 80 to 78 per mille , but leisure services have risen from 32 per mille to 62 , entirely as a result of the inclusion for the first time of foreign holidays , which are now deemed to account for 30 per mille ( 3 per cent ) of the cost of living .
19 It was clearly felt that PAF should be regarded entirely as an automatic fee in recognition of a teacher qualified and belonging to a professional Society .
20 We got amazing proposals in from men , which were entirely about general health , ignoring any particular women 's health issues .
21 But the magazine is not entirely about the cube .
22 of a school leaver will be almost entirely about educational achievements and any pastimes , experiences or interests which indicate the type of person an employer will be looking for .
23 Just as much of the discussion of youth had excluded female youth , they were also almost entirely about white male youth .
24 When he left school , he forgot entirely about the whole business , forgot about it for a couple of decades , forgot until this thin , tired fellow , looking so very much like his old school chaplain , came and hovered in the drive , the epitome , it seemed to Patrick , of the doubting kind of modern Anglican clergyman .
25 ‘ Oh ! ’ said Fenella and stood still and clasped her hands together and for a moment forgot entirely about being in danger in the house of an ancient and evil sorcerer .
26 The entry on ‘ Glory ’ runs to two pages , and is almost entirely about the Glory of God .
27 He noticed too that , in the space of twenty minutes , Wheeler seemed to have changed his tack entirely about informing the police .
28 yes yes absolutely , oh yes this this course is entirely about verbal presentation
29 Were you to turn over that banner which is I think magnificently designed , you would find the other side is entirely about international connections between workers and various groups and so on , so it 's got the international , the wider version and I 'm delighted to know that you have here , you I understand that the G M B is perhaps the only body which has the nearest thing to a formal alliance with the trade union in Germany I mean this is tremendous .
30 On entering the sea , their anuses close up , rendering them unable to feed , requiring that they live entirely off their own fatty deposits .
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