Example sentences of "all this have " in BNC.

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1 As though all this had happened a long time ago .
2 All this had a dramatic effect on station catering 's turnover , up from £33.1 million in 1978 to £62.8million seven years later .
3 But all this had been wasted by some heavy handed crimping .
4 All this had its inevitable effect on relations between Muslims and Christians in Lebanon .
5 He was excited by the ferocious vitality and darting breadth of reference of the work , and secretly , personally , he was rather pleased that all this had been achieved out of so peaceable , so unruffled a private existence .
6 It sounded , Henry thought , as if all this had happened before .
7 ‘ I just want to carry on , ’ she said , ‘ as if all this had never happened . ’
8 All this had taken its toll and there was no opportunity to rest or recover from either private loss or public defeat .
9 And when all this had been made ready , they went out from Valencia at midnight , through the gate of Roseros , which is towards Castille .
10 All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down .
11 As a result when I awoke there was no positive proof that all this had not in fact happened , and that it did not belong to a mental lapse from which I had recovered .
12 It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin .
13 ( All this had been laid out by the father of information theory , Claude Shannon , in an influential paper published in the late 1940s ) .
14 All this had changed when she was thirteen and her five-year-old sister had died of a sudden illness .
15 All this had passed into history by the close of the 19th Century .
16 While all this had been happening , 249 Squadron had also been launched from ‘ Ark Royal ’ , also led by Fulmars .
17 All this had happened in seconds .
18 All this had better work , ’ said Masklin soberly .
19 Gabbi Callas , 27 , fiancee of victim Mark Fitz , said : ‘ If all this had come out before the court case , it might have made a difference . ’
20 If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan .
21 While all this had been going on , Steve had carried out a thorough inspection of the locomotive , had oiled up the axle boxes and attended to the brake gear .
22 For many years prior to 1976 , foreign policy questions had headed Gallup polls as the most important issues in presidential campaigns , but all this had changed by 1980 .
23 And all this had come about ‘ during the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century ’ .
24 The training officer , who endorsed all this had picked up his standards from his dealing director , who was later to claim of him : " He was like a lost lamb when he started .
25 All this had a debilitating effect upon ecclesiastical morale and discipline , for not only were the king 's servants who enforced his claims upon church property and privileges thus protected , but they were also exempted from necessary reforms : as late as 1303 , precisely on the question of pluralism , the bishop of Worcester and his advisers declined to take action against the multiple pluralist , Ralph Hengham , because he was a royal judge and a member of the king 's council .
26 Supposing all this had happened three months from now . "
27 Ten new vats had been installed since Christmas , there was a new dryer , the warehouse had been extended — and all this had been achieved despite the fact that twenty of the feeble " yellows " were still dying every month from malaria !
28 All this had to be ripped out before any redecoration could get underway .
29 It was funny he should have remembered the row that week-end , when Patricia had left him in the cinema , and the per … pervert had touched his leg , because that was when all this had really started .
30 All this had to be fitted in around the other main tasks of the day .
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