Example sentences of "whole [noun] of [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK would thus eliminate a whole category of weapons in its nuclear arsenal . |
| 2 | Thus many third and fourth generation computers provide a range of facilities ( such as several data-types ) in an attempt to cover the whole spectrum of applications in one design . |
| 3 | Sometimes people have um a whole variety of symptoms in later life and perhaps as a consequence of some sort of therapy , some sort of consciousness raising exercise , something like that erm they are not necessarily aware at the start that they 've been abused but sometimes they feel y'know a very compelling sense of memories flooding back . |
| 4 | They will be affected for the rest of their lives by the kind of diet which is condemned by nutritionists all over the world as likely to lead to a whole variety of illnesses in later life . |
| 5 | The whole complex of events in the Persian wars from the fall of Sardis to the retreat of Xerxes was seen as a unity and formed what Robert Drews has called ‘ one Great Event of awesome proportions ’ . |
| 6 | The fact that in the event the volume of training proved insufficient , relates ( as I shall argue later ) to the whole issue of priorities in teacher education and to the relationship between expectations in curriculum reform and means available . |
| 7 | It was the biggest exercise of its kind mounted by Courtaulds , with questionnaires so far going to 15,000 employees across the whole range of operations in the UK , continental Europe , United States , Latin America , the Far East and Australasia . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A whole range of initiatives in pre-school settings has been described ( Smith 1981 , Tizard et al 1981 , Raven 1980 , Wolfendale 1983 ) with attempts made by these writers and others to put observed practice into theoretical and conceptual frameworks . |
| 10 | This chapter has provided information on the difficulty levels of tasks from a whole range of topics in the Cockcroft foundation list . |
| 11 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 12 | There were also a whole range of ways in which children could contribute to the household economy through domestic labour and child care , both within their own households , and as part of the pattern of exchange between kin and neighbours . |
| 13 | There is a whole range of ways in which a hearer could recover the required parallelisms . |
| 14 | A whole range of tracks in fact . |
| 15 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 16 | The second part of the chapter comprises a narrowing of the focus from arts education in general , to one area in particular , namely English lessons and the fictional literature typically offered to whole classes of pupils in the lower years of secondary schools ; the ‘ class reader ’ . |
| 17 | Because the ministry has been brought into being by God , the result is that it bears fruit , whether it is among the gentiles in Pisidian Antioch or the whole group of hearers in Lystra . |
| 18 | Tonal series are designed to contain note-groups of a triadic nature , or to have a whole group of notes in the same key . |
| 19 | The whole group of buildings in the square present a charming provincial ensemble . |
| 20 | For example , the whole evolution of Bells in Scotland since the war was due to Raymond Miquel 's strategy on sales . ’ |
| 21 | The whole area of charges in education is filled with inconsistencies and variations between one local authority and another . |
| 22 | But on the other hand as is often the case , there 's so much that you 've got you do n't need , that when you finish your removal you want a whole lot of boxes in the corner out the way until you 've sorted er everything else out . |
| 23 | Well , I 've trailed my coat , I 've said a whole lot of things in hopefully to intrigue you , to start you off , merely in terms of rather positive public relations , the media are good and they 're lovely and you ought to encourage them , and really , my message in the very first part is what I started off with . |
| 24 | I am also concerned that if these new unitary authorities come into effect , it seems er reasonable to assume the majority of members will be all the district councillors er whose involvement in planning of course is very different to our own and therefore their understanding of strategic planning , their appreciation of its importance will be far less and we could actually find that these planning committees authorities are really old district planning committees and the new and er there really could be quite serious implications for a whole number of things in Sussex I mean we know that the planning department is at the moment trying to erm create er a new and vibrant |
| 25 | He was about to tell the Headmaster the Bookman had a whole box of questions in his home but stopped himself in time . |
| 26 | The request is made so that each question can be marked throughout the whole pile of scripts in one operation , before the next question is examined . |
| 27 | Such a procedure is much more difficult when applied to a whole system of taboos in the way Freud does in Totem and Taboo . |
| 28 | Evidence which could potentially threaten the whole system of beliefs in the efficacy of witchcraft is thus reinterpreted in consonance with the basic premisses which it challenges . |
| 29 | Apart from humiliating a whole generation of adults in front of their more adept offspring , Rubik 's brilliant invention has sparked off some new thinking about how people solve problems . |
| 30 | The alarm pheromone of the weaver ant is a complex message stimulating a whole series of responses in its nestmates . |