Example sentences of "a whole [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , when you 've got all the big names , and the Dennis Taylors , the Jimmy Whites , both who 've won it before , Jimmy has n't been playing too well recently , but you 've got a whole clutch of players who could well come through and surprise everybody . |
| 2 | One receives a whole gamut of responses to the general run of questions : why , how and when and for how long . |
| 3 | We mourn the loss of the person who died and we respond to the change that this effects in our lives with panic or elation or anxiety or a whole gamut of emotions that may take us by surprise . |
| 4 | Discovering the jewels in this wonderful set is akin to exploring a Fabergé egg : the chiselled craftsmanship and ever-increasing refinement stir a whole gamut of emotions . |
| 5 | In reaction it turned to a whole gamut of strategies advocated by advisory committees and penal reform groups in an attempt to counter and check the rising tide of custodial sentences . |
| 6 | Hybrids comprised a whole gamut of deformities . |
| 7 | But as for doing a whole exchange of shows , like with the Russians in the past well , we might do it if we got compensation for it . |
| 8 | Whereas in most parts of England , thatched roofs were made of locally available straw , in the lowlands , especially in East Anglia , the common reed was used — the same plant which provides a home for a whole hierarchy of warblers , moths , and bees . |
| 9 | In some cases the corpus of story may imply a whole hierarchy of discriminations : " we " are distinguished from " others " , friends from foes , recognized neighbours from unrecognized strangers , gods from men , men from animals , " real " animals from monsters , and so on . |
| 10 | His immediate solution was to present in The Lord of the Rings a whole hierarchy of styles . |
| 11 | And there was just a whole loads of fairies on this island . |
| 12 | It would seem to be inappropriate for the criminal law to remove a whole category of persons from its protection on the basis of words spoken at a ceremony of marriage which have no binding force . |
| 13 | The UK would thus eliminate a whole category of weapons in its nuclear arsenal . |
| 14 | IF YOU watch television and listen to news-readers , leaders of industry , pop-bawlers and ‘ presenters ’ , you could make a whole glossary of words that have been shortened in the interests of inarticulacy and idleness . |
| 15 | Blow up kidney-shaped cushion for the neck ; clip-on sunshades , tubular money holders to hang around the neck , haircuts as pristine and new as thatched cottages ; too many magazines , trashy paperbacks , a whole arsenal of cameras , video equipment and binoculars . |
| 16 | Again the idea is taken farther : we hear a whole suite of dances , badly harmonised ( perhaps ! ) . |
| 17 | For this reason Unani hospitals were equipped with the best cooks , and , in the case of the sixth-century Bait al-Hikmah in Baghdad , a whole troupe of singers and musicians as well . |
| 18 | Welcome back : Coming up shortly , the ghostwatchers who 've taken on a whole houseful of spirits . |
| 19 | The negative failure to object , or to opt out , may signify one of a whole range of reactions : fear or prudence in the face of power , indifference , paralysis of the will , sullen resignation , sheer hopelessness , a feeling of ignorance , or habits of subservience . |
| 20 | John Kenny played with drama and panache a whole range of effects from his first entry , in which his breath metamorphosed into sound , to talking and singing while playing and producing chords . |
| 21 | One that takes time to appear is the creation of a data base of information applicable to a whole range of products . |
| 22 | Business Superstore offers a whole range of products from computer systems and peripherals like cabling to office furniture and paper-clips . |
| 23 | The firm , which will do boards for a whole range of products including computers , telecommunications and satellite receiver and industrial control system products is looking for further partnerships in Taiwan , Japan and the US and is three months away from announcing its next deal . |
| 24 | The company 's brand may be recognized as being associated with a whole range of products with similar environmental usages and styles , such as kitchen utensils , office equipment etc . |
| 25 | Right , if we broaden the number of commodities , and recognize that er , farming is a multi-product enterprise , alright , farmers just do n't produce one produce , alright , they tend to produce a whole range of products , and therefore we 've got to accommodate these inter-relationships between prices of barley , prices of wheat , prices of oil seed rape , s and er , and so on and so forth , and there can be a nu a number of fairly complex inter-relationships er , there . |
| 26 | The outcome is that men who have few resources other than physical ones are more likely to commit legally defined rape , whilst those men who possess a whole range of resources from economic patronage to cultural charm are likely to be viewed by the law as ‘ real men ’ practising their primeval arts-and that is something the majesty of the law should leave alone ! |
| 27 | There are processes described for perception , immediate recall , attention , short-term memory , recognition and a whole range of rules whereby recall occurs . |
| 28 | Venues for the 1991 events cover a whole range of waters from canal to rivers to lakes and results year after year confirm the Irish fish hhave no respect for big reputations . |
| 29 | This was a development which also disseminated throughout northern England the idiosyncratic customs of the clergy of the Celtic regions of the British Isles which the Church of Rome , as it comprehended them over time , came increasingly to view as schismatic — not simply a different , more archaic method of calculating the date of Easter ( which Iona retained long after other Irish communities had abandoned it ) , but a whole range of differences in ritual practice and , in the absence of an established ecclesiastical hierarchy of bishops and archbishops , a barely recognizable ecclesiastical order . |
| 30 | The ambitious long term campaign is always susceptible to a whole range of upsets . |