Example sentences of "be that [art] whole [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it could have been that the whole truck was a set-up : corral the gringos then fleece them . |
| 2 | ( A third possible explanation is that the whole story was made up , to impress unbelievers , by the apostle Matthew or whoever wrote the gospel ascribed to him . |
| 3 | The second reason was that Palmerston had gone further than that by insisting on the appointment of an architect who had not even entered the competition , and the third reason was that the whole affair was so tangled when he took office that he appointed a Select Committee to look into it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The main complaint was that the whole thing was a fraud , which could be proved because , as everyone knew … leprechauns canna write ! |
| 6 | At the conference , in the final plenary session , what was emerging was that the whole conference was virtually treating itself like handmaidens to the medical profession . |