Example sentences of "whole [noun] have the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no children playing , no neighbours talking , and the whole place had the deserted air of an American neighbourhood on Thanksgiving Day . |
| 2 | The whole place had the glamour and attractiveness of an elderly whore still on the game long after her teeth have gone . |
| 3 | The whole room has the feel of a place set out to be conventionally acceptable and — if such a word is appropriate in this Castle — almost friendly . |
| 4 | The whole hill had the appearance almost of a skull , the apertures like teeth exposed in a grin and black with decay . |
| 5 | The guests were given great freedom of movement , with etiquette reduced to a minimum , so that the whole affair had the air of a country house party in magnificent surroundings . |
| 6 | The whole world had the opportunity of hearing on television what President Yeltsin thought . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The whole thing had the feel of a palace of some mad potentate , a train-obsessed latter-day equivalent of Ludwig of Bavaria , perhaps . |
| 9 | The whole thing had the odd appearance of a brick-built Mississippi steamboat beached and panting to get back to the lake . |
| 10 | She thought the whole thing had the quality of a dream , if the whole muddled mess was somehow totally unreal . |
| 11 | The whole face had the unearthly green tinge of dead flesh , which Jean-Luc Roussel was convinced was the mark of a zombie . |