Example sentences of "[det] [prep] this [vb mod] [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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1 | Some of this may have been channelled into Pathe , where Mr Fiorini is still co-chairman . |
2 | However , improvements such as this could have been introduced without going wholesale into a market economy for health with its inevitable two-tier system for general practice . |
3 | Much of this would have been intended for re-export , rather than directly for consumption , but as half of England 's total exports by this time were re-exports rather than domestic products the commercial community suffered enough of a loss to show why the English had to be far more concerned about command of the sea than any other country except the Netherlands , and also how fragile that command was before 1700 . |
4 | All of this would have been enjoyable — or at least bearable — without miserable old mother me having the meanest migraine in living memory . |
5 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |