Example sentences of "whole [noun] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , six weeks after the funeral , he had suddenly found himself able to believe that it had n't happened , not in that way , and that the whole horror was a childhood fantasy . |
| 2 | Not so many years ago , this would have been a non-question : Christians believed that the Star was one of God 's miracles , while scientists , by and large , believed that the whole story was a myth . |
| 3 | The only person that she spoke to on the whole crossing was a young man who fell on top of her as she and he were going down the stairs : he was following her , two steps behind , when the boat gave a violent lurch and he missed his footing and crashed into her , and she too missed her footing , and they both sat down together upon the stairs . |
| 4 | But it could have been that the whole truck was a set-up : corral the gringos then fleece them . |
| 5 | The whole stereotype was a media creation anyway , so nobody in their right mind could claim to represent the Manchester scene . ’ |
| 6 | The whole courtship was a tissue of lies , you know . |
| 7 | The evil media did n't exactly rape poor innocent Manchester and its defenceless young pop stars — the whole shebang was a two-way transaction of mutual favours . |
| 8 | However long she had been there , the whole stretch was a dingy aching trail of work and beatings . |
| 9 | As Goffmann points out , the end of conversational encounters carry an increased risk of creating offence — in the sense that careless or perfunctory termination may convey the misleading impression that one could n't wait for the session to end and that as far as one was concerned the whole episode was a waste of time . |
| 10 | But he was firm as a rock — so firm that she began to suspect that the whole episode was a ruse . |
| 11 | What the ‘ teacher ’ volunteer did not know was that the whole experiment was a set-up and that the ‘ learner ’ was in fact a co-worker of Milgram 's . |
| 12 | The whole exercise was a clear demonstration of the unequalled capabilities of the Mystère 20 as an airline pilot trainer . |
| 13 | His whole attitude was a furious desire to discipline her , and Jenna moaned as her lips were crushed . |
| 14 | The whole test was a vast improvement on last time and We were finished within an hour and a half . |
| 15 | Her whole body was a pulse ; throbbing ; waiting . |
| 16 | The whole business was a tangle of supposition . |
| 17 | The spectators knew that the whole event was a staged act and yet complied : ‘ because all must be done in good order ’ . |
| 18 | The whole enterprise was a terrible joke , misguided , utterly stupid . |
| 19 | To me , who on a good day just about understood that there was no danger of the water 's getting into the wiring system and fusing everything or worse , and was amazed that the record-player did n't run erratically , the whole set-up was a major miracle . |
| 20 | The whole morning was a fair to average shambles , even when we got back to Battalion HQ We found the basement at Cadogan Gardens full of fainting civilians — mostly rather pretty girls . ’ |
| 21 | Her whole stance was a silent challenge to him to deny it , but she had to press her lips tightly together to stop them quivering . |
| 22 | The whole area was a maze of dunes and dells . |
| 23 | The whole incident was a very sore point with my crew , who had worked very hard for long hours on this one , and it was a classic illustration of how our laws often seem to lean over backwards to protect the lawbreakers . |
| 24 | The whole operation was a single trick , all the fruits of which should be excluded . |
| 25 | The doctors and nurses who brought the sick and wounded back to Britain have dismissed claims that the whole operation was a public relations exercise . |
| 26 | The whole lake was a death trap for birds . |
| 27 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 28 | Lawrence that his whole life was a testimony to the fascination of the secret power of the will . |
| 29 | His whole life was a search for quietness in which the voice of God could be heard ( see 15.92 ) . |
| 30 | The decision to use Strasbourg as a point of departure for this attempt was based upon a calculation that the strong army garrison in the frontier city would respond to the name of Napoleon , but in fact the whole affair was a disaster and ended in ridicule with the Prince 's arrest . |