Example sentences of "all this [vb mod] have [be] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And so , ’ said Floy , looking at Fenella , wondering how all this might have been received on Renascia , ‘ and so , we will set off . ’
2 I suppose all this would have been welcome in happier times .
3 All this would have been done within two hours of receiving the order .
4 All this would have been bad enough , even without another little trick nature had up its sleeve : the weather .
5 All this would have been unthinkable in the 1930s ; though , as Paul Addison has pointed out , there were signs that a progressivist tide of ‘ middle opinion ’ was rising gently , nevertheless the speed with which these developments occurred after 1940 must be attributed to the peculiar conditions brought about by the war .
6 If she decides to go straight home all this will have been for nothing . ’
7 All this could have been done in commercial machinery shops , but it would have cost a fortune , ’ he says .
8 If you had done your job properly , been a decent husband , then all this could have been avoided . ’
9 All this should have been enough to turn us from a nation of householders into a nation of shareholders .
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