Example sentences of "whole [noun] of [noun pl] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The devastation and restructuring of European society gave credence to a whole variety of forebodings about the collapse of European civilization . |
| 2 | Tt yeah yeah erm yeah I mean it 's interesting when you come to attitudes to parenthood erm I think that 's quite an important issue because it does tap into a whole range of things about erm you know kind of er suspicions that somehow if gay or lesbian people raise children then the children 'll either be , you know , sort of corrupted or converted themselves |
| 3 | What results from this is that we might be led to think that the problem with defining God is that there is a whole range of ideas about the divine being that tend to produce no very clear overall picture . |
| 4 | As James Mountford confirms , the stimulus of the war had generated a whole range of books about universities and their function , of which Leavis 's was considered to be one of the most important examples . |
| 5 | Certainly they evoke a whole string of imaginings about past scenes — the construction , people travelling , especially on outings , steam trains with all the associations they conjure up , and so on . |
| 6 | and erm I think there must be some people there who have brought cats in because all of a sudden there are a whole lot of cats about which there were n't before you see |
| 7 | If the woman says ‘ yes ’ to ( a ) the interviewer wants to ask her a whole list of questions about her life . |
| 8 | A whole series of lies about the Revolution , FAKOUM , the IP and the Civil War followed , centring on the deaths caused by the IP-FAKOUM conflict which she magnified by a factor of one hundred . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |