Example sentences of "this has [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment . |
| 2 | This has created a capital structure more suitable for a listed company . |
| 3 | This has created a vacancy for a full-time post in the Eastern Counties , for one year initially . |
| 4 | This has created a temptation to explain the passing of the radical reforms by pointing to the absence of the ‘ conservative ’ Kimon and his 4000 ‘ conservative ’ hoplites . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door . |
| 7 | This has necessitated a concern with the movement and transformation of energy in the atmospheric boundary layer , in the plant cover and in the soil so that progress could be made towards understanding the mechanism of energy and moisture exchange . |
| 8 | ‘ We are already behind on our non-professional staff training programme and this has necessitated a review of training methods . |
| 9 | This has led a number of commentators to argue that the unemployment trap is now of little importance to the real world . |
| 10 | ‘ What I meant was do you wish to pull in somewhere till this has eased a bit ? ’ |
| 11 | This has traumatised a company that traditionally gave its employees an implicit job-for-life promise . |
| 12 | But this has cast a shadow over the College . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a question of some of the wiring not being routed in the correct way and in some cases this has caused a chafing or a short circuit , ’ said a Vauxhall spokesman yesterday . |
| 14 | All this has caused a lot of tension in our marriage . |
| 15 | All this has reinforced a mood of debt reduction and rebuilding of savings back to levels that were broadly maintained throughout the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 16 | To some degree , this has reinforced a kind of ‘ nostalgia ’ for the past when rural societies were thought to be organized as relatively undivided ‘ communities ’ . |
| 17 | This has highlighted a number of shortcomings in the technical arrangements . |
| 18 | In old buildings this has become a problem , but one we have overcome by the design of modular cabinets . |
| 19 | He says : ‘ We are making more and more DCDs — Driver Controlled Deliveries — where the driver not only delivers a tanker of petrol to a filling station , but is trained to unload it into the underground storage tanks ’ This has become a necessity , as more and more petrol stations are operated by one person locked behind security windows . |
| 20 | Above all , what is clear is that this has become a poker game only for those with the steadiest of nerves . |
| 21 | This has become a commonplace of gerontology , yet — among the general public — jokes are still made as to old so and so being " past it " , and the elderly man with a young wife still tends to be a figure of mockery or disapprobation ( the elderly woman with a young husband even more so ) . |
| 22 | This has become a Place where the man who cares passionately for his craft — lighting or stage work — comes to show what he really can do . |
| 23 | This has become a reality through the hard work of staff at SCRE , particularly Rosemary Wake and a sturdy group of SERA members who meet to discuss future issues of Observations and plan the development of the network . |
| 24 | This has scotched a plan by hunters in the forest of Trysil , 200 km north of Oslo , to kill three wolves whose tracks have been found on the border with Sweden . |
| 25 | This has unleashed a wave of militant anti-Communist demagogy in the pre-election period . |
| 26 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This has left a section of the community without effective access to legal services for expensive litigation . |
| 29 | The island was a small one in the this has got a heart middle of the pond I could n't find the right line that 's why I did that . |
| 30 | This has got a stain on it . |