Example sentences of "[det] this be [conj] " in BNC.

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31 Once again one comes back to the fundamental question of how much use all this is and whether the NSA really provides good value for money .
32 ‘ I take it all this is because James is not the father ? ’
33 The reason for all this is because carp are very hard fish to catch and carp fishermen fish for a long period of time often a few nights and days .
34 All this is as yet in the future ; Serafin is still working out how he is going to insist on occupying the garret , in the teeth of Summerchild 's objections .
35 All this was before he became a jazz legend , writing such hits as ‘ Flat Foot Floogie ’ and appearing in films like Hellzapoppin .
36 The result of all this was that the Escort languished in some unfamiliar positions in the top 10 sales chart .
37 A complicating factor in all this was that despite the opposition of the Eastern District Council , expressed both before and after the decision had been taken , Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board resolved in December 1955 to withdraw its resident tutors from some of the counties it served .
38 The upshot of all this was that in 1959 the State of Tennessee ruled to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School .
39 The result of all this was that the Government 's claims about the march and its defence of the actions of the police carried very little conviction outside the ranks of its own supporters .
40 One slight advantage of all this was that nobody had time to consider the fate of L Detachment .
41 Of course , the effect of all this was that she did n't like my children very much , and she had some justification for this .
42 The result of all this was that I returned to Europe and settled in Paris with her .
43 One consequence of all this was that when a Commons Defence Committee later met to disentangle the many grievances , John Nott — the defence secretary who ‘ misled ’ the Commons about the circumstances of the sinking of the General Belgrano — explained : ‘ In a few years ’ time , with satellites , the task of censorship will become an impossible one . ’
44 Yet it was hard to believe that the explanation for all this was that a schoolboy was in the hands of devils .
45 The only good thing about all this was that the procession was going to march through the Old City .
46 I underwent the most frightening time of life , and all this was because of ignorance .
47 And again if the signs are the same , I mean I know they 're not exactly the same this is and add and that 's a positive , it 's the same as adding a positive number .
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