Example sentences of "whole [noun sg] of [noun pl] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 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 .
3 This chapter has provided information on the difficulty levels of tasks from a whole range of topics in the Cockcroft foundation list .
4 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 .
5 Tonal series are designed to contain note-groups of a triadic nature , or to have a whole group of notes in the same key .
6 The whole group of buildings in the square present a charming provincial ensemble .
7 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 .
8 Such a procedure is much more difficult when applied to a whole system of taboos in the way Freud does in Totem and Taboo .
9 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 .
10 Flagelliflory , the presentation of flowers on long peduncles , occurs in several unrelated groups and is generally associated with bat pollination , but a whole family of plants in a wide range of habitats in tropical America has all its species bat-pollinated with the flowers projecting above the canopy ; namely the Caryocaraceae .
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