Example sentences of "a whole had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But plastics as a whole had started to hit bad times . |
| 2 | The most mouthwatering specimens tend to be found in limestones — famous sites are in the Silurian rocks of England and Mississipian rocks of the U.S.A. The group as a whole had a major crisis in the Permian , during which most of the Palaeozoic forms died out . |
| 3 | Indeed , the movement as a whole had only a brief life , and by the 1690s it was already becoming past history . |
| 4 | The simple guidelines on sexual morality which , when they were children , the Church of England and society as a whole had appeared to accept , were being challenged . |
| 5 | A bonus was that he had been so fascinated by his earlier experience that his confidence in hypnotherapy as a whole had grown , and he was far more willing to undergo treatment than he might otherwise have been . |
| 6 | This meant that approximately two hundred and sixty-two thousand households in the country as a whole had radio . |
| 7 | It is generally recognized that the magnetic field of the Earth has periodically reversed : Warlow claimed that the Earth as a whole had flipped over . |
| 8 | The lone elderly group as a whole had a median RNR level of 110 per cent but as Table 5.4 shows , there were clear differences between men and women in every age-group . |
| 9 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 10 | The movies as a whole had to be moulded to suit middle-class notions of public respectability but meanwhile local battles had to be won in every town and city as sector by sector the wider public was to be won over . |
| 11 | The nationalised industries ' borrowing as a whole had , in fact , become part of the public sector borrowing requirement and , in order to tighten up the monetary control , all new capital for the electricity industry ( and other public sector industries ) from 1956 was raised directly by the Treasury , and then lent by them to the industry . |
| 12 | The group as a whole had contacted a GP regarding their heroin use on over 200 occasions . |
| 13 | Estonia , for instance , had the largest deposits of shale in the Soviet Union , and very considerable deposits of phosphorite and limestone ; but their rapid exploitation in the interests of the Soviet economy as a whole had led to serious environmental damage and to water pollution in particular . |
| 14 | 1 The public as a whole had fallen victim to the revolution of rising expectations and they displayed a lack of " realism " as to the constraints that bore on the capacity of governments to provide ever more . |
| 15 | Mr Greene claimed that in Britain campaigns aimed at the population as a whole had been shown to have been a waste of money and there had been a change of policy to target the high-risk groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users . |
| 16 | As a result of this policy the Arab states as a whole had lost about US$25,000 million since 1987 through falling oil prices . |
| 17 | the extent to which the school as a whole had felt threatened by having to submit a report to the LEA . |
| 18 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 19 | While the country as a whole had a a rise of twenty two per cent last year . |