Example sentences of "that the whole [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This declared that the whole affair was ‘ a godsend , a windfall , an apocalypse for Mr. Ruskin . |
| 5 | Charles thought that the whole affair was now out of his hands , and , though it was unsatisfactory that so many questions remained unanswered , at least some kind of justice had been done . |
| 6 | ‘ You might say that the whole affair was a mistake , ’ he said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | You know you got this , you got this fear that the whole company 's gon na get this stupid memo . |
| 10 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you realize , ’ he said , ‘ that the whole school is about to go up in flames today ? ’ |
| 12 | However , if you hate exercise , be assured that the whole enterprise is not necessarily doomed to failure . |
| 13 | Against a background of bitter hostility from the right-wing press , alarmed Conservative politicians attacked the Ballot , complaining that the questions were politically biased and that the whole enterprise was becoming a front for anti-Government activity . |
| 14 | I told the doctor ; but he said that the whole adventure was just a dream , the result of cold , tiredness and a violent bang on the head . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Forty-Second Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education , published in 1943 , devoted a whole volume ( Part Two ) to " The library in general education " , once again assuming that the whole idea was totally novel . |
| 17 | It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way . |
| 18 | Others complained that the whole campaign was misguided , arguing that people should have fewer partners rather than safer sex . |
| 19 | But it could have been that the whole truck was a set-up : corral the gringos then fleece them . |
| 20 | Hence , indeed , there is the further conclusion that the whole circumstance was required for the effect , that the effect required the circumstance . |
| 21 | We may , in fact , reinterpret any of the diagrams of Figs ( 2.25 ) -(2.31) by assuming that the whole space is filled with a material of conductivity unc and the field lines are now the lines of current flow as well . |
| 22 | It could well be , of course , that after examining questions such as this , John McElroy decides that the whole scheme is vaguely hare-brained — the sort of proposal to which people in Britain have grown accustomed from the likes of Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 23 | The small money value of profits earned on minor sales can be so quickly absorbed by overheads that the whole exercise is hardly worthwhile . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together . |
| 26 | It is likely that the whole village was deliberately planned , possibly with a revitalised field system , since solskifte , a regulated field system , has now been traced at Wharram Percy . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I picked out notes where he had just screwed up totally , but then I went back to the beginning again and realised that the whole song was just shifted . |
| 29 | The doctors and nurses who brought the sick and wounded back to Britain have dismissed claims that the whole operation was a public relations exercise . |
| 30 | Since there is no motive for Justinian to have inspired the addition of these words , it seems best to suppose that the whole sentence is a later addition inspired by a rescript of Marcus Aurelius . |