Example sentences of "this has [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year .
2 For instance , the incidence of reported rape has gone up dramatically in the last five years but this has also coincided with a change in police policy designed to give victims support and to take every allegation seriously .
3 This has since expanded into a professionally organised system covering the whole country , but we should not forget that it was Harry Barber who began it .
4 This has largely led to a reduction in overall-activity , but the control of mosquitoes by means of insecticide retains its prominence .
5 This has not made for a smoothly running society , whose members all feel part of a common enterprise .
6 The eastern Australian passive margin is one region where there has been a fruitful interchange of ideas and data between geomorphologists and geophysicists , although this has not resulted in a consensus as to either the history of uplift or the mechanisms that have caused it .
7 The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion .
8 This has not occurred in a simplistic or deterministic manner , as can be seen from the retention of the abolition of the death penalty .
9 He has used Cow Gum but this has eventually resulted in a yellow stain coming through the paper .
10 This has certainly led to a freeing of the body to give it a greater range of movement .
11 There is no general evidence as yet to link second home ownership with house price increases ( de Vane 1975 ) , but in local instances this has undoubtedly happened on a property-for-property basis , and it is easy to be convinced that dire housing consequences can come about for the ‘ traditional ’ rural population .
12 Perhaps this has now developed as a whole group drama , with the children playing the townspeople of Hamelin .
13 This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator .
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