Example sentences of "this [noun sg] has [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One would think ( as I think ) that this story has served as a vehicle through which people expressed their love of God , but not that it is true . |
| 2 | It was a natural response to the advent of nuclear weapons to concentrate on means of limiting or even abolishing them ; and this response has led to a long series of arms control and disarmament negotiations at Geneva and elsewhere . |
| 3 | This chapter has examined from a comparative standpoint a number of important characteristics of trade unions , mainly in relation to industrialised , market-type economies . |
| 4 | You may recall that this committee has asked for a health and housing conference but we seem to get under it rather a lot of times , nothing it appears to be happening . |
| 5 | This attitude has come as a shock to many in Hollywood who are falling over themselves to sign him . |
| 6 | Additionally however , we need to make it clear that when we have looked at the figures and I would pay some to the opposition for bringing er some matters to our attention , erm and looking at the way in which very , very careful on the part of this council has led to a better reserve position than we would previously have expected . |
| 7 | Indeed this emphasis has persisted into a period where , in the new media , large-scale organizations are in fact available for analysis . |
| 8 | This topic has lingered as a question over many WACC activities , and a significant contribution has been made by the WACC-initiated study on the mass media and village life in India . |
| 9 | This prospect has led to a retrenchment in state pension provision and an emphasis on informal caring systems , two attempts to reduce the need for society to foot the bill of its ageing population . |
| 10 | This dissertation has dealt with a potentially fatal symptom of disease which affects the lives of millions of people throughout the world every day . |
| 11 | So this news has come as a disappointment to local business leaders . |
| 12 | This realization has led to a great deal of debate and , although it can not be said that a general consensus has been reached on how best to define development , a good deal of light has been shed on the processes involved in different types of development . |
| 13 | However , the practice of incremental change under this Government has led to a much more comprehensive coverage of meeting the needs of disabled people . |
| 14 | This legislation has remained as a separate code and is not consolidated in the Town and Country Planning Act of 1971 . |
| 15 | Patrick Duff wrote , ‘ This reverse has come as a great shock . |
| 16 | Bank Assistants were told there was room at the top , but this mirage has turned into a desert of empty dry promises , sun bleached skeletons of the fallen victims and descending spirals of the vultures , vigilant for the weak . |
| 17 | This situation has arisen as a result of the serious manpower shortage of physicians willing to undertake these difficult and often conflicting types of care . |
| 18 | The growth in their numbers this century has led to a longstanding debate about their position in the class structure . |
| 19 | The particularly inclement spring weather this year has led to a continuing lack of dry rock and new routes , resulting in an exodus to warmer places , notably America . |
| 20 | The White House spokeswoman , Dee Dee Myers , said Mr Clinton would ‘ make one of the most important economic statements this country has seen in a decade ’ in his speech to Congress . |
| 21 | If this perspective is adopted , environmentalists ought perhaps to be grateful for the fact that the vast majority of farmers are not more economically rational when they come to organize the husbandry of their farms and that the inertia introduced by the historical pattern of landownership and farm structure in this country has acted as a brake on landscape change . |
| 22 | This fact has emerged during a pilot test of a new computer program developed by scientists for the Department of Transport . |
| 23 | ‘ This technology has led to a better-quality product which can be used in high-definition displays , ’ said Roger . |