Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a friendly priest emerged and told me that the whole church had been built , in an old-fashioned style , in 1935 . |
| 2 | Theo had been confiding his disappointment with the way his life was turning out , and Vincent quickly swept in with an indictment : ‘ It seems to me that the whole art business is rotten . ’ |
| 3 | It strikes me that the whole phenomenon is in the same position as the ecology movement in the early Eighties , when it was associated with people with beards and woolly jumpers who drank Real Ale . |
| 4 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 5 | But it appears to me that the whole trend of authority for over a century is clearly against permitting any such investigation . |
| 6 | Sitting on the bus , still with my cap on my lap to avoid attracting attention , it struck me that the whole world changed within a mile or two as we left the town . |
| 7 | Apart from the fact that the writing is rather sloppy in a pompous sort of way , it seems to me that the whole exercise was not worthwhile . |
| 8 | An interview with this adviser subsequently confirmed that the self-appraisal was not accorded great importance : ‘ On the role of the self-appraisal , it seems to me that the whole thing has been made into a very big deal and ought not to be . |
| 9 | In fact given the , what 's happened politically in what was Czechoslovakia and is now the Czech Lands and Slovakia , erm and the financial pressures in Slovakia it 's not certain to me that the whole arrangement will go forward . |
| 10 | I mean it seemed to me that the whole concept of an Arts Centre of that stature and calibre on campus was simply marvellous — not unique , but of a very remarkable concept — and I became , as you say , Chairman of the Gardener Centre through Aisa Briggs ' persuasion . |
| 11 | Late one afternoon Rioja had rushed in to tell them that the whole camp was being evacuated across the border and they must flee before the men who were coming to shoot them reached the hut . |
| 12 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 13 | This was duly done , and in 1072 Lanfranc wrote an account of the proceedings to the pope , telling him that the whole question of Canterbury 's primacy had been ventilated at two Councils , at Windsor and Winchester . |
| 14 | Do I now understand it that the whole programme is subject to maximum price ? |
| 15 | When my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) and I visited some European capitals and Washington , it was clear to us that the whole character of the theory of nuclear strategy was under review . |