Example sentences of "be that [art] whole [noun] " 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 | In retrospect , indeed , the only criticism was to be that the whole Supergrid had not been designed for conversion to even higher voltages . |
| 3 | Now it may well be that the whole balance of things is that we 're generally okay for the moment but it seems to me that as time goes on and there 's a need to review plans and there 's a need to make further provision that it would be very very difficult indeed against a blanket policy as opposed to individual justifications around ind er individual settlements . |
| 4 | The overt expression of that passivity and self-condemnation is that a whole range of the voices of public opinion are on the side of what you and I call the criminals . |
| 5 | What has not been adequately appreciated , however , is that a whole constellation of social forces — high infant mortality rates , loss of mother 's income , the fluctuating utility of child labour — could equally well encourage fertility control . |
| 6 | What is apt to happen when we strike a solid is that a whole series of stress waves radiate from the point of impact and move off into the body of the material . |
| 7 | Yes , well , I particularly welcome this erm concentration on areas , I think it 's an excellent idea , particularly in relation to housing , I think what we will find interesting is that a whole number of Oxford citizens , perhaps indeed from Barton , Blackbird Leys , Marston originally , who are badly housed in these areas and waiting in the most appalling accommodation for the opportunity of a council home . |
| 8 | The good news is that the whole removal process can be done from within Windows itself , using the tools ( like the File Manager and Sysedit ) we 've covered in previous Steps . |
| 9 | What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility . |
| 10 | The danger with accepting that cats have a hundred different sounds is that the whole subject becomes too complicated to make much sense . |
| 11 | Current thinking is that the whole word recognition approach is not viable for the more general problem with large vocabularies ( Tappert et al , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | The final point to be made is that the whole reading experience takes place within a particular cultural setting , and this will affect reception . |
| 13 | The industrial equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns is to spend hours of internal management time arguing about the allocation of costs between departments or divisions , when the real problem is that the whole cost of the operation is too high . |
| 14 | The approach taken by Ventura is substantially different in that instead of making up individual pages the idea is that the whole document is created in one go . |
| 15 | What is alarming , however , is that the whole system appears to be getting out of balance . |
| 16 | A number of working groups have been set up by the Council to look at these matters , but the truth is that the whole curriculum approach is rendered horrendously difficult by the subject structure and by the inevitable fact that the various subject working party reports are coming on stream over a period of at least four to five years . |
| 17 | ( 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 . |
| 18 | The reason for building a high mutation rate into the model is that the whole performance on the computer screen is for the benefit of human eyes , and humans have n't the patience to wait a million generations for a mutation ! |
| 19 | The point is that the whole idea of substance as an entity breaks down ; which is of course the opposite of what Spinoza originally intended . |
| 20 | The important thing is that the whole programme is planned in a way that brings out learning in depth , allowing for sustained involvement with the children , and has clear developing purposes . |
| 21 | The more practical implication is that if such a wide-varying right of appeal existed , the likelihood is that the whole planning system would become totally bogged down . |
| 22 | The thing about this man is that the whole wind section seems to play better when he is there , not just the flutes . |
| 23 | Marie-Claire Valle-Bloaise , a campaigner , says : ‘ What is really odd is that the whole city wants to save these remains of our past . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The bitter irony was that the whole plan had been her idea right from the start . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The main complaint was that the whole thing was a fraud , which could be proved because , as everyone knew … leprechauns canna write ! |
| 28 | Source C " The impression left on the minds of those who heard the speech , after the first sensations of surprise had passed , was that the whole thing had been arranged long before and that , while in the Cabinet and committee they had been making panic stricken efforts to balance the budget , the whole business had been a humbug and make-believe . " |
| 29 | The problem was that the whole thing had become so complex — it was n't only what he was going to do now but there was the stuff back at the club , there was Ashdown and what he knew , there was the whole sorry business of his suspension and the charges against him … taken one piece at a time it seemed bad enough , but taken all together it was far too much for his mind to handle . |
| 30 | 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 . |