Example sentences of "and it be this [Wh det] " in BNC.

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31 Economic independence , especially in trade , was central to the term ‘ free Zuwayi ’ , and it was this which government intervention most threatened .
32 This too could not compel the defendant , condemned to restore , to do so , but it applied conspicuous Pressure : if he did so , well and good ; if not , the plaintiff was allowed to make his own valuation of the property , and it was this which would become the damages awarded by the judge .
33 Under normal circumstances the bulk of government patronage in Scotland would be distributed through the agency of ministers familiar with local politics , and it was this which gave the crown its commanding influence in the country .
34 Without history as a form of mediation the differences return as the problem , and it was this which , according to Foucault , The Order of Things was really trying to address .
35 There is a marked concentration in the region of Sagittarius ( the Archer ) , and it was this which led to the discovery that we are having a lop-sided view of the Galaxy because we are not in the middle of it .
36 The proceedings were dominated by the developing study skills programme within the school , and it was this which the evaluators were assured was the major thrust of the school 's post-project library development .
37 The MINIS and Joubert systems , with due allowance for departmental differences , were to be universalized throughout Whitehall , and it was this which provided the impetus for the launch of the Financial Management Initiative ( FMI ) in 1982 .
38 As acting Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces under Marcos , Ramos had led a military mutiny in support of Aquino , and it was this which had finally convinced Marcos that he could no longer continue to cling to office .
39 The agency gave assurances that this new evidence had been passed to the relevant prosecuting authorities , and it was this which had led to the prosecutors ' decision to withdraw from their plea bargain arrangement with Drogoul , thereby allowing him to change his plea to innocent .
40 The entrance was through a small separate cell to the north-east , and it was this which had been tampered with .
41 The favourite explanation , however , was ‘ speculative hoarding ’ , and it was this which became the target for government action ( in addition to a series of measures designed to speed up the release and development of land ) .
42 But while the handicapped get the support they need the carers are ofrten forgotten and it was this which insprired the Princess Royal to set up a special trust .
43 This immensely ambitious programme was what he started out on in the early nineteen hundreds and it was this which , with the assistance of A.
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