Example sentences of "this has [verb] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are already behind on our non-professional staff training programme and this has necessitated a review of training methods . |
| 2 | This has led a number of commentators to argue that the unemployment trap is now of little importance to the real world . |
| 3 | All this has caused a lot of tension in our marriage . |
| 4 | All this has reinforced a mood of debt reduction and rebuilding of savings back to levels that were broadly maintained throughout the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 5 | To some degree , this has reinforced a kind of ‘ nostalgia ’ for the past when rural societies were thought to be organized as relatively undivided ‘ communities ’ . |
| 6 | This has highlighted a number of shortcomings in the technical arrangements . |
| 7 | This has become a commonplace of gerontology , yet — among the general public — jokes are still made as to old so and so being " past it " , and the elderly man with a young wife still tends to be a figure of mockery or disapprobation ( the elderly woman with a young husband even more so ) . |
| 8 | This has unleashed a wave of militant anti-Communist demagogy in the pre-election period . |
| 9 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 10 | This leaves pension funds with a very wide range of powers over the selection and management of investments and this has attracted a degree of adverse attention in recent years . |
| 11 | This has left a section of the community without effective access to legal services for expensive litigation . |
| 12 | GRIST regulations ( section 9 , DES , 1986 ) allow the curriculum component of advisers ' work to be a charge against DES funds and this has released a number of posts frozen by local government cut-backs . |
| 13 | Against the background of almost zero national population growth in the 1970s and 1980s , this has produced a mosaic of both absolute growth and absolute decline across Britain with relatively few places maintaining a static population size . |