Example sentences of "[noun] about the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spring 1991 a research project was used to further the debate in a broader context of views about the whole decision-making process within the school . |
| 2 | Investiture was the symbolic part of a struggle behind which there were fundamentally different views about the whole ordering of society and about who was the divinely appointed agent for that purpose . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a unity about the whole thing which needs to be practised in a single centre , ’ the MRC source said . |
| 4 | Evidently , during the journey , Crabb told Mrs Rose something about his mission and appeared to have some misgivings about the whole affair . |
| 5 | The sad part about the whole sorry affair is that you appear to have been badly let down by those who by rights ought to feel indebted to you , but with the Sun in Aries and that part of your solar chart related to affairs of the heart you are bound to win some kind of moral victory , and even if you do decide to make a settlement this month you should still feel you really have much to celebrate . |
| 6 | Hove was elegant , Brighton racy , and Kemp Town struggling , but there was something louche about the whole place . |
| 7 | He was getting in deep now , though he was experiencing grave and gnawing doubts about the whole affair . |
| 8 | He adopts a false cheeriness about the whole thing as self-protection . |
| 9 | The header to each assembly file contains data about the whole assembly . |
| 10 | The empty rooms echoed and there was an air of desolation about the whole place . |
| 11 | ‘ If the killings go on , there 's going to be a big rethink in the UK about the whole question of sporting links with South Africa . ’ |
| 12 | There is an awed and yet a sickly innocence , a pasteboard period falseness about the whole enterprise , and lines like lead which today make The Robe seem older , more quaint than silent movies . |
| 13 | ‘ No constituency will select her , of course , ’ one of the MPs remarked after a female candidate had been passed for the list , reflecting a certain realism about the whole process . |
| 14 | The process of asking questions about the whole range of EPH activities , although revealing a number of minor problems , was eventually discontinued because of the time involved in trying to cover all aspects of the database . |
| 15 | ‘ HIS GIRLFRIEND is hovering between life and death , but Morrissey 's catch vocal seems non-committal about the whole thing , while the overall feel evokes shadows of The Beach Boys and other early '60s teen vocal groups . ’ |
| 16 | She began to have a very bad feeling about the whole thing . |
| 17 | There w–s no sense that we had passed from the holy world of church to secular life : there was a wholeness and a holiness about the whole experience which is difficult to describe . |
| 18 | There is nothing inherently grubby , dirty or second rate about the whole business of getting and spending . |
| 19 | Today 's conference , organised by the Scottish Office , has been set up to encourage informed debate about the whole issue of the hopelessly ill . |
| 20 | Howard would like to put his arms about the whole team , as they crowd round the journal , smelling of shirts , and squeeze them all , and fuse them into one perfect corporate human being . |
| 21 | At the Republican Convention last month George Bush expressed his concern about the whole question of liability in the US , and particularly about the amount of money trial lawyers make from suits that lead to doctors refusing to practise certain areas of medicine , and even to parents refusing to umpire childrens ' baseball games in case a child is injured and they are sued . |
| 22 | She 's in a terrible state about the whole thing , poor poppet . ’ |
| 23 | Just a word about the whole season now , Oxford last season , were finishing in cracking form . |
| 24 | Niki 's phlegm about the whole incident can be summed up in what must be the driver 's quote of the decade : ‘ There is no point in having a complex about losing half an ear . ’ |
| 25 | The Board took the view that it was not in the national interest that such complete information about the whole nation should be in private hands and after a prolonged and bitterly fought legal battle it won — ensuring the perpetual hostility of Readers Digest the world over to any suggestion of data protection thereafter . |
| 26 | The specific components of chromosomes in turn are called genes , that familiar word describing how detailed information about the whole organism is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 27 | This is not a book about the whole topic of miasmas and disease , and it certainly does not cover the entire ‘ pre-industrial age ’ : it is a study of a single collection of reports by doctors and public health inspectors in early 17th-century Tuscany . |
| 28 | The most notable thing about the whole period from 1894 until 1929 , however , was the close relationship between banks and industry . |
| 29 | Indeed , by far the most surprising thing about the whole workwear-as-fashion issue is that , despite now being a fair few months down the workwear/style line , there are still the doubters , the sceptics , the fashion-aware bods who hiss ‘ hype ’ at the mere mention of moleskin . |
| 30 | There was a kind of inevitability about the whole proposal which appalled Alexei . |