Example sentences of "[Wh det] [det] this [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abyss which all this opens up is , perhaps , terrifying before it is ‘ depressing ’ . |
| 2 | What all this points to is money in people 's pockets . |
| 3 | For the moment let me repeat that what all this seems to point to as natural is the self-imposed exile which will allow the artist figure , whether Stephen or Joyce himself , to create a new world , with the language of the writer as his ticket , his lifeline , his rescue . |
| 4 | Maybe it 's not easy to see what all this has to do with cancer , but you must bear with me if I tell you that it has . |
| 5 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 6 | What all this shows is that a distinctively structuralist kind of criticism is possible , and moreover , that it is more than the simple application and refinement of the tools of poetics . |
| 7 | What all this suggests is that people themselves may anticipate that a particular type of credit would be difficult for them to arrange , and therefore simply do not apply for it . |
| 8 | That 's what 's been going around the common room and that 's what all this adds up to . ’ |
| 9 | I shall not attempt to draw too explicit a conclusion as to what all this adds up to : that will have to be left to historians . |
| 10 | What all this amounts to is a proviso that research based on samples of five hundred , a thousand , or more individuals should not be uncritically accepted as ‘ good ’ research while surveys using small samples , say a hundred or less , are dismissed as invalid . |
| 11 | What all this amounts to , among other things , is that in translating pronouns from English to , say , French , Italian , Greek , Spanish , Russian , German , or Bahasa Indonesia , decisions may have to be made along such dimensions as gender , degree of intimacy between participants , or whether reference includes or excludes the addressee . |
| 12 | ‘ What worries me most , ’ she said , ‘ is what all this rushing around is doing to Zachary . |
| 13 | What all this indicates is that creatures — human or otherwise — are aware , are conscious , of danger to life and limb . |
| 14 | What all this means in practice is that the engine seems a pretty good performer . |
| 15 | I do n't know what all this means . ’ |
| 16 | What all this means is that if non-Tories get the bit between their teeth , they have a chance . |
| 17 | What all this means is that going through a black hole is unlikely to prove a popular and reliable method of space travel . |
| 18 | What all this means is that in common with all other performance figures Whetstone and Dhrystone should be regarded as performance indicators rather than as absolute measurements . |