Example sentences of "a whole the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may include calls to follow the Lithuanian lead and abolish from the Soviet Constitution as a whole the clause which guarantees the Communist Party a leading role in society . |
| 2 | In India as a whole the figure is about 40% ( see chart ) . |
| 3 | In London as a whole the grammar schools ( twenty-one of which were directly maintained by the London County Council ) were for many years to admit 17–20 per cent of each age group , and the movement towards comprehensive schools was painfully slow . |
| 4 | In the universe as a whole the two directions of time are indistinguishable , just as in space there is no up or down . |
| 5 | As a whole the season had not brought a successful fishing , which , sad to relate , would condemn to bachelorhood for another year many Lewismen who waited a successful season to enable them to begin life in partnership with a fisher lass . |
| 6 | While in the world as a whole the dispossessed may outnumber the reasonably well-off by some four to one , in the democratic ‘ market economies ’ of the capitalist world their minority status assures them lasting subservience to the democratic majority . |
| 7 | The proportion of Roman Catholics in the most senior posts rose to 25% , but in the force as a whole the proportion dropped from 11% to 4% . |
| 8 | The early twentieth century was very much a period of collecting together the data and presenting it en masse , seen at its best in G. Baldwin Brown 's exceptional study of the material of Anglo-Saxon archaeology as a whole The Arts in Early England ( 1903–1937 ) . |
| 9 | Taking Primary Schools as a whole the curriculum is probably wide enough to serve curriculum needs … |
| 10 | But in Europe as a whole the car was still a rich man 's toy . |
| 11 | In Britain as a whole the number of domestic electricity consumers rose from 9.7 millions on nationalisation to 14.3 millions ten years later , reflecting the increase in the number of households as well as a sharp reduction in the proportion without electricity . |
| 12 | Taken as a whole the acts envisage several grades of gentleman . |
| 13 | Taken as a whole the Turneys formed a not unimportant family of landed peasants and yeomen all living in the neighbourhood of Leighton Buzzard . |
| 14 | I would be sorry not to hear Mravinsky 's incandescent performance of Siegfried 's Funeral March again , but that is also available on Olympia , and as a whole the Erato Wagner disc is difficult to recommend . |
| 15 | As a whole the reading calls to mind that of Del Monaco ( Karajan/Decca ) , and is none the worse for that , but misses the better manners of Pavarotti ( Solti/Decca ) and Domingo ( Maazel/EMI ) . |
| 16 | For six of these ( 24 per cent ) the duration of their last job was less than 12 months and for the group as a whole the average was less than 17 months . |
| 17 | In Inner London as a whole the average level of population loss fell from 63,000 per year in the early 1970s to 14,000 per year a decade later . |
| 18 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |
| 19 | Within Ireland as a whole the Protestants would constitute a clear minority , easily outweighed by the Catholic and nationalist majority in Ireland as a whole . |
| 20 | True , in the country as a whole the reform helped to reduce the proportion of peasant households within the commune . |
| 21 | This was somewhat ironic since within the Tory Party as a whole the early '60s saw a marked decline in the proportion of Eton-educated aristocratic MPs and a rise in the proportion of the ‘ professional middle classes ’ and career politicians , but with the fourteenth Earl of Home as figurehead , Wilson 's charge seemed plausible . |
| 22 | As a whole the nobility failed to respond to this call . |
| 23 | The question then arises whether it is right to attribute to Parliament as a whole the same intention as that repeatedly voiced by the Financial Secretary . |
| 24 | The 300,000 extra jobs created over the seven-year period was in proportional terms close to the rate of employment growth in England and Wales , but for the South-east as a whole the rate was much higher . |
| 25 | Seen as a whole the assimilation of Greek culture and language was easy and quick . |
| 26 | Does the Minister agree that whether in Sheffield or throughout Yorkshire as a whole the history of a great industry and of a great industrial heritage was based on innovation and entrepreneurism ? |
| 27 | Apart from the general problems that relate to the haphazard disposal of such waste , particularly into landfill sites where little effort is made to seal them off , in the United Kingdom as a whole the land around a third of the 100 sites studied by the Department of the Environment was contaminated . |
| 28 | The principal method of investigation is a postal inquiry followed by personal visits to selected record offices ; an attempt is also being made to assess how representative of the country as a whole the areas that have been selected are . |
| 29 | As a whole the aim of the seven projects within this research development is to investigate how industrial restructuring is affecting different localities , their labour markets and political processes . |
| 30 | I 'd just like to make two or three points first of all the exchange factor which Frank touched upon when , when talking about profits you probably all totally familiar but I have forgotten quite how much the dollar has strengthened recently beginning of the year it was nearly two dollars and the result of that is that for the erm first half as a whole the impact of er exchange translation was adverse for our profits compared with last year to the tune of about one and a half million pounds . |