Example sentences of "this has [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is possible that this has contributed to the risk of the glider zooming too high just after take off .
2 In part it would appear that this has arisen from a tendency to see questions of housing and home life as matters of individual and privatised choice , to be set aside from the mainstream of political life where employment is the crucial issue .
3 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 .
4 This has led to a range of top level employees including high powered vets , scientists and senior inspectors .
5 This has led to a departure from the generally accepted principle of state funding for educational projects .
6 This has led to a fall in the emergency attendances with almost a hundred per cent registration rates from local slum families .
7 This has led to a position where politically opposed groups are united by their view of race exclusively in terms of culture and identity rather than politics and history .
8 This has led to a change in the way in which both physical and social data are collected and combined in an effective conservation policy , or , as Pickering ( 1979 ) puts it , in such a way as to ensure the technical validity of a conservation technique is appropriate over the same area as its social validity .
9 More recently it has been recognised that students will benefit more from the provision of good quality language support than from long periods spent learning English in ESL courses and this has led to a shift in resources towards the mainstream classroom .
10 This has led to a crisis of legitimacy for the system : not only for the prisons ( whose claim to be providing effective rehabilitation was always shaky in many eyes ) but equally for other components of the penal system , notably the probation service which has for some years now been uncertain about what its proper rationale and direction should be .
11 This has led to a situation in which individuals have either tended to pursue their own goals ( deliberately ) or have misinterpreted ( genuinely ) the aims of the school .
12 This has led to a series of attempts to reinscribe a place for , and a relation with , the other as other , outside the sphere of mastery and therefore , logically speaking , both infinite and beyond the scope of knowledge .
13 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 .
14 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 ) .
15 Combined with the decline in the political influence of the great aristocracy this has led to the notion of a ‘ crisis of the nobility ’ .
16 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 .
17 His enthusiasm for this has led to the interpolation of several texts .
18 This has led to the conceptualisation of older people from minority ethnic communities as being in ‘ double jeopardy ’ ( Dowd and Bengtson , 1978 ) .
19 Councillors differ in their attitude to their role and this has led to the development by political scientists of typologies to describe the variations .
20 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 ) .
21 This has led to the regazetting of boundaries and the diminishing of reserves .
22 This has led to the concept of the motility index ( area under the time pressure curve ) to describe pressure activity .
23 Arguably this has led to the break-up of the old trade union structures and increased management 's ability to obtain flexibility of labour .
24 This has led to the speculation that these overweighted skulls led to the animal 's extinction , as a kind of anti-evolutionary regression .
25 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 .
26 This has led to the emergence of a number of commercial pen-based systems , such as PenWindows , Paragraph and PenPoint .
27 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 .
28 Nevertheless , logged forests are fireprone and , in Borneo , this has led to the devastation discussed in Chapter 2 .
29 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 .
30 This has led to the argument that there is no essential difference between debt and tax finance .
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