Example sentences of "this has [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has to last for the rest of our lives . " |
| 2 | It is possible that this has contributed to the risk of the glider zooming too high just after take off . |
| 3 | Part of this has to do with the lack of systematic training to which we have already referred . |
| 4 | This has to do with the way in which network membership involves possession of the social skills and reciprocal relationships which that membership entails . |
| 5 | In modern times , this has culminated in the emergence of the ‘ Servile State ’ in which the state is viewed as a corporate productive enterprise , Parliament has been reduced to a market in which private interests clamour for awards , and civil law has been displaced by the administration of instrumental rules and orders . |
| 6 | The special circumstances of territorial displacement and the withdrawal of adult supervision , which appear to have been more pronounced in Britain than in other parts of western Europe where the family is stronger as a recreational unit , have made the problem worse here than elsewhere ; this has led to the formation of the ‘ ends ’ which in turn has tended to attract a small fascist and psychotic fringe . |
| 7 | In some cases this has led to the formation of unofficial cartels often with the tacit support of MITI , but the whole process has led to a ‘ systematic undoing of the American-inspired anti-monopoly legislation both in letter and spirit ’ ( Yamamura 1982 p.81 ) . |
| 8 | Combined with the decline in the political influence of the great aristocracy this has led to the notion of a ‘ crisis of the nobility ’ . |
| 9 | This has led to the proposal that CaMKII can act as a form of molecular memory , recording the occurrence of a previous Ca 2+ transient . |
| 10 | His enthusiasm for this has led to the interpolation of several texts . |
| 11 | This has led to the conceptualisation of older people from minority ethnic communities as being in ‘ double jeopardy ’ ( Dowd and Bengtson , 1978 ) . |
| 12 | Councillors differ in their attitude to their role and this has led to the development by political scientists of typologies to describe the variations . |
| 13 | This has led to the development of Diagnostic Related Groups ( DRGs ) — a method of ‘ classifying inpatients into a manageable number of groups , which are both clinically meaningful and homogeneous in resource use ’ ( Culyer and Brazier , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | This has led to the regazetting of boundaries and the diminishing of reserves . |
| 15 | This has led to the concept of the motility index ( area under the time pressure curve ) to describe pressure activity . |
| 16 | Arguably this has led to the break-up of the old trade union structures and increased management 's ability to obtain flexibility of labour . |
| 17 | This has led to the speculation that these overweighted skulls led to the animal 's extinction , as a kind of anti-evolutionary regression . |
| 18 | The site is only four miles from Corinium and this has led to the speculation that the establishment may have had a special function in a large estate . |
| 19 | This has led to the emergence of a number of commercial pen-based systems , such as PenWindows , Paragraph and PenPoint . |
| 20 | This has led to the view that Bismarck 's real aim was to stifle Austro-Russian conflict by attaching Austria-Hungary to Germany , so that he could hold her back and prevent the two autocracies from mutual destruction . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , logged forests are fireprone and , in Borneo , this has led to the devastation discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 22 | This has led to the practice of banks issuing ‘ rollover ’ CDs , i.e. six-month CDs with a guarantee of further renewal on specified terms . |
| 23 | This has led to the argument that there is no essential difference between debt and tax finance . |
| 24 | This has led to the adoption of a wide range of contraceptive techniques including the use of oral contraceptives ( the biological origins of which are now eagerly sought by pharmaceutical companies ) . |
| 25 | This has led to the suggestion that there was an eclipse of the sun . |
| 26 | This has led to the suggestion that the fine structure is created from a series of lamellar crystals winding helically along the spherulite radius . |
| 27 | This has led to the suggestion that H pylori infection might decrease the sensitivity of parietal cells to gastrin , but other evidence did not support this view . |
| 28 | This has led to the claim that British merger policy has potentially represented a Charter for Conglomerates , although it should be noted that , as discussed in the next subsection , there has been a move away from diversification and conglomerates , especially after the Stock Market Crash of 1987 . |
| 29 | This has led to the tying of aid to a large extent to inappropriate or unduly expensive goods from the donor 's country , to sharp annual variations in the volume of aid flows and to a lack of commitment to real coordination with other donors . |
| 30 | Sometimes , as in Chile in 1973 , this has led to the destruction of electoral democracy itself . |