Example sentences of "whole [noun] was [art] " 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 experience was the weirdest thing I 've ever encountered , ’ said Professor Frayling . |
| 6 | The whole stereotype was a media creation anyway , so nobody in their right mind could claim to represent the Manchester scene . ’ |
| 7 | The whole courtship was a tissue of lies , you know . |
| 8 | On the whole Ramsey was no friend to dramatic public occasions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However long she had been there , the whole stretch was a dingy aching trail of work and beatings . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But he was firm as a rock — so firm that she began to suspect that the whole episode was a ruse . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Marx 's whole work was an attempt to show that this image was false ; that there was nothing inevitable about all this , but rather that this apparent powerlessness of the worker to determine the wage was the product of the distribution of property and especially of the distribution of the ownership of such things as land , machines , tools , etc . |
| 15 | The whole exercise was a clear demonstration of the unequalled capabilities of the Mystère 20 as an airline pilot trainer . |
| 16 | His whole attitude was a furious desire to discipline her , and Jenna moaned as her lips were crushed . |
| 17 | The whole test was a vast improvement on last time and We were finished within an hour and a half . |
| 18 | Her whole body was a pulse ; throbbing ; waiting . |
| 19 | The greatest missionary of our whole period was the Devonian St Boniface . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most important stimulus to the musico-liturgical development of this whole period was the introduction of Roman chant under Pepin III , father of Charlemagne , at Metz cathedral where a saintly ancestor ( Arnulph ) had been bishop in the previous century . |
| 21 | Fundamental to the whole process was the transference to colleges of the maximum responsibility for course development and assessment , while maintaining the important framework of national comparability . |
| 22 | The whole process was the ‘ institutionalization of academic common sense ’ . |
| 23 | Central to the whole process was the CSF , the latest stage in the trend towards programme rather than project intervention . |
| 24 | The whole business was a tangle of supposition . |
| 25 | ‘ The whole business was an absolute nightmare . |
| 26 | ‘ That whole business was the reason for our falling out . ’ |
| 27 | The spectators knew that the whole event was a staged act and yet complied : ‘ because all must be done in good order ’ . |
| 28 | Yet by far the most moving part of the whole day was the reaction of the crowds which lined the streets . |
| 29 | The whole enterprise was a terrible joke , misguided , utterly stupid . |
| 30 | 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 . |