Example sentences of "[art] whole affair " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most revealing aspect of the whole affair is the way Dr Browne handled it . |
| 2 | To cast Julian Sands from A Room With A View and Richard E. Grant from How To Get Ahead In Advertising as a male witch and his pursuer shows a certain imagination , even if the whole affair is complete nonsense . |
| 3 | The whole affair has cost him more than £650,000 in fees for legal and financial advice , his spokesmen said last night . |
| 4 | Yet , within a few years , the whole affair had degenerated into a foodies ' free-for-all . |
| 5 | A kind thought , but one which suggests that the ‘ fault ’ lies with the ‘ ignorant ’ official and no one else , that the whole affair was an exceptional accident rather than one product of a carefully constructed machinery which demands these attitudes in its operators . |
| 6 | Putting it as politely as he can , Mr Tyson said the whole affair ‘ encouraged ’ him to return to paid employment . |
| 7 | So it looks as if cameramen ( rather than the proposed cameramans ) will be able to get on with their work in the Gulf ; the beloved accent on abîme will not fall into the abyss ; and the whole affair will have been a non-événement . |
| 8 | But the whole affair of Airbus and its new cousin lies in the deepest shadow that menaces Europe 's single-market project : the old-world urge to subsidise , to protect jobs and to create national champions remains depressingly intact . |
| 9 | The point , though , which takes the whole affair into the realms of the ludicrous is that other members of the England party , such as Boycott and Bairstow , had also played and coached in South Africa but no objection was made to them . |
| 10 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 11 | The dinner was being held on the racecourse , in the grandstand with its almost limitless capacity , and the whole affair , Mackie had told me , was frankly only a giant advertisement , but everyone might as well enjoy it . |
| 12 | He was getting in deep now , though he was experiencing grave and gnawing doubts about the whole affair . |
| 13 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 14 | Evidently , during the journey , Crabb told Mrs Rose something about his mission and appeared to have some misgivings about the whole affair . |
| 15 | Or did British intelligence produce an unidentifiable corpse simply to bring the whole affair to an end ? |
| 16 | By now the French government had become quite brazen about the whole affair and the new French prime minister , Jacques Chirac , publicly stated that France had good reason to be proud of what Mafart and Prieur had achieved , a view that was evidently shared by most people in France . |
| 17 | The French and Germans watched the whole affair with much amusement . |
| 18 | The decision to use Strasbourg as a point of departure for this attempt was based upon a calculation that the strong army garrison in the frontier city would respond to the name of Napoleon , but in fact the whole affair was a disaster and ended in ridicule with the Prince 's arrest . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Napoleon III let it be known to both men that a simple withdrawal of the candidature would suffice and that France would then be glad to consider the whole affair closed . |
| 21 | Some of the Americans who stayed behind questioned the motive behind the whole affair ; having publicly urged their own citizens to leave , the British Embassy then let it be known that ii privately viewed the evacuation as part of Ford 's election campaign . |
| 22 | In later years the events of 5 October were to be polished into simplified and incompatible propaganda versions ; it has to be stressed that the whole affair was a series of blunders and the violence resulted from a breakdown of control by the leaders of the march and the controllers of the police , and not from any pre-existing plan . |
| 23 | The gardener , an honest youth of little imagination who was by now enchanted by the whole affair , remembered that the taste of strawberries was improved by setting them on a cabbage leaf , and strode down to the brassica beds to cut a broad green plate for the feast . |
| 24 | The whole affair , however , was symptomatic of the consistent refusal of planning staffs to understand or even try to appreciate the potential of the SAS , encamped within easy striking distance of the enemy 's lines of communication . |
| 25 | For a supposedly religious ceremony there is a very secular feel about the whole affair . |
| 26 | The ravages of time had caused pieces to break away here and there , so that newer patches of different grey made the whole affair appear shabbier than ever . |
| 27 | Winnie picked up her knitting again , determined to remain cool-headed over the whole affair . |
| 28 | On 10th August , the day the Bill was ordered to be withdrawn , Hope asked for a Royal Commission to consider the whole affair . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This declared that the whole affair was ‘ a godsend , a windfall , an apocalypse for Mr. Ruskin . |