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

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1 ‘ And I think they realise how I feel and this has broken the ice . ’
2 We had to assume many of the debts of Ferdinand Marcos and his associates and this has increased the repayments to banks like Barclays to such an extent that we have had to agree to the conditions of the IMF to get new money .
3 Over the next few years Yakovlev continued to design and build a variety of successful single-engined biplanes and monoplanes and in July 1934 he was given a derelict bed factory on Moscow Leningradski Prospekt where he set up his own OKB and this has remained the headquarters ever since and also now holds the Museum .
4 There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 .
5 ‘ We are already behind on our non-professional staff training programme and this has necessitated a review of training methods .
6 In this supplement to Mr Bramwell 's useful book on the taxation of companies the statement of the law is updated to 1st October 1974 and this has enabled the author to notice the relevant provisions of the Finance Act 1974 and their effect upon the subject-matter of the book .
7 Much of the concern expressed prior to the passing of the 1967 Act centred around the supposed vulnerability of children , and this has made the possibility of a lowering of the age of consent a remote one .
8 I have had to stop running ( along with tennis and badminton ) because of this pain , and this has eased the problem .
9 The fall in employment has been much more marked amongst male than female workers and this has affected the composition of union membership ; females now comprise almost 35 per cent of the entire membership .
10 One of the most advanced examples of development has been CLIMAP ( Climate , Long Range Investigation , Mapping and Prediction , Hays and Moore , 1973 ) which has made a reconstruction of global sea surface , ice extent , ice elevation and continental albedo for the northern hemisphere summer at 18,000 years BP and this has provided the boundary conditions for global general circulation models to simulate the climate when the northern ice sheets were at their maximum extent ( see Lockwood , 1983a ) .
11 The interior of Hermiston Village , once torn apart by unremitting heavy traffic has now been bypassed by the realignment of A71 and this has provided an opportunity to improve the local environment immeasurably by the adoption of various hard and soft landscaping measures .
12 Large gas resources have been discovered and this has encouraged the oil search .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Some of the bones had started to develop algal growth in the prevailing damp conditions , although resting on a dry substrate , and this has obscured the surface of the bones to a certain extent ( Fig. 1 .
16 Supermarkets are now selling milk at around 10p a pint cheaper than the standard 38p delivered to the doorstep and this has whipped the cream off doorstep profits and sales .
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