whole apparatus

collocation in English

meaningsofwholeandapparatus

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whole
adjective
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/həʊl/us
/hoʊl/
complete or ...
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apparatus
noun
uk
/ˌæp.əˈreɪ.təs/us
/ˌæp.əˈræt̬.əs/
a set of equipment or tools or a machine that is used for a ...
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(Definition ofwholeandapparatusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is in fact the 'fault line' of thewholeapparatus.
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Thewholeapparatuswas isolated within its own lightproof compartment.
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The bottom sensor was calibrated by replacing the swirlpool with a layer of insulation and heating thewholeapparatus.
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After each mouse had been tested, faecal pellets were removed and thewholeapparatusswabbed with dilute alcohol solution before the next mouse was exposed to the apparatus.
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Awholeapparatusalready exists to develop closer common foreign and security policy links.
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Seemingly, we are to accept in faith that thewholeapparatuswill be constructed.
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I believe thewholeapparatusof violence to be morally wrong.
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In the case of solicitors, there is thewholeapparatusof the disciplinary committee to oversee the operation of all solicitors on a regular basis.
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Thewholeapparatusof deflation would get going.
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They would not necessarily be intensive attacks but intensive attacks are not necessary to set in motion thewholeapparatusof air-raid defence.
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It keeps intact thewholeapparatusfor establishing the national curriculum.
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Before thewholeapparatusfor collecting this £5 million is set up, we should consider that we might have the same picture.
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He said that this comprised thewholeapparatusof tyranny.
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It is our view, therefore, that we should not have thewholeapparatusof sending an offender to prison.
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If they were extensively applied we should have, of course, to re-create thewholeapparatusof allocation and rationing and all the rest of it.
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We cannot for long maintain an effective blockade unless we have at our disposal thewholeapparatusof wartime sanctions and controls.
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We might well find that the extra cost was sufficiently small to justify our dismantling thewholeapparatusof rationing.
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After all, that is why we have thewholeapparatusof law in this country.
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I find that in the relationship of the public with hospitals and clinics and thewholeapparatusof medicine there is the greatest difficulty.
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