Example sentences of "this [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ron Spill , pension controller with Legal & General , said : ‘ This has made a big difference in people 's behaviour . |
| 2 | Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This has determined a no-loan policy for the UK clearinghouse ( although duplicate material is available for users to keep ) . |
| 5 | This has created a vacancy for a full-time post in the Eastern Counties , for one year initially . |
| 6 | This has created a new sense of potential fluidity in political attitudes . |
| 7 | This has created a new sense of potential fluidity in political attitudes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Finkelstein ( 1991 ) has argued that this has created a hierarchical view of disability , with groups higher up the hierarchy adopting alienistic attitudes to those seen to be lower down . |
| 10 | This has created a widening gap between the leaders and their electorate . |
| 11 | This has created a long period of uncertainty , but in fact it now appears that they do not grant core funding ( and inside information indicates that the NCC element is the dominant one ) . |
| 12 | This has created a capital structure more suitable for a listed company . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Almost every eventuality has been foreseen , but this has necessitated a complicated set of forms which , although simple in principle , are so detailed as to be regarded by many as impractical . |
| 16 | ‘ We are already behind on our non-professional staff training programme and this has necessitated a review of training methods . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This has led a number of commentators to argue that the unemployment trap is now of little importance to the real world . |
| 19 | This has spawned a fragmented movement of new religions which worship a female divinity . |
| 20 | This has generated a considerable debate on the size of the household , its class basis and the changing meanings given to it . |
| 21 | In February 1990 a European style option was made available on the FT-SE 100 Index , and this has generated a fair degree of interest among the investing public . |
| 22 | There has been a surge of field studies in the Himalayan-Tibetan region since the late 1970s and this has generated a large body of published work . |
| 23 | This has enabled a low-profile firm to have one of the highest profiles in terms of revenues . |
| 24 | This has done a great deal for the world . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What I meant was do you wish to pull in somewhere till this has eased a bit ? ’ |
| 26 | This has traumatised a company that traditionally gave its employees an implicit job-for-life promise . |
| 27 | But this has cast a shadow over the College . |
| 28 | All this has caused a lot of tension in our marriage . |
| 29 | This has caused a certain amount of wrangling , with those stalwarts who had been at Down Royal through thick and thin — mostly thin — complaining because there were now too many layers to be accommodated . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |