Example sentences of "this has the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This has the short-term effect of bringing in foreign currency .
2 This has the great advantage of allowing local history materials to be used .
3 This has the great advantage that , from S1 , able pupils can be moved into a more challenging group , while those who find the pace too fast can be given the chance to catch up before they become discouraged .
4 However , perhaps the strongest support for the concept of professional accountability derives from the argument that this has the best chance of promoting positive change in the practices of individuals and institutions .
5 Consequently , this has the highest standard deviation ; in this case 5.86 .
6 This has the following points in its favour :
7 This has the immediate effect of making her look like an extremely expensive deco doll .
8 This has the specific advantage of offering us a series of relatively detailed developmental sequences for individual areas within the plan , but unless such work has been sufficiently systematic , the resulting picture resembles at best an incomplete jigsaw .
9 This has the required refractive index and the advantage that the slip can be removed if needed , after gentle heating on a hotplate .
10 This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs .
11 This has the whimsical verve of Les femmes , and , likewise written for a bass , equally deserves to be revived in performance .
12 This has the unfortunate consequence that they are much more likely to kill their patients than to cure them .
13 This has the remarkable consequence that if a man attacks his wife ( or vice versa ) in the privacy of their own home , the offence of affray appears to be committed if the evidence is that there was violence of a sufficient degree .
14 This has the big advantage that it can be put into place by just one person .
15 This has the added advantage of making a nice contrast to the night scenes in the previous sequence .
16 This has the physical consequence of relatives and friends not being able to leave the dying person 's side , in case they ‘ miss it ’ .
17 This has the worst reputation of any ‘ creepy-crawly ’ in the public imagination , and yet its bite , which is extremely rare , is no worse than a bee sting .
18 This has the natural corollary that the United States also operates rigorous controls on mergers that promote new monopolies .
19 This has the double advantage of making available notes between the bottom note E in the seventh position of the B flat tenor trombone and the fundamental B flat and also providing shifts alternative to those found awkward among higher harmonics .
20 This has the particular advantage of avoiding possible political problems that may have occurred if a more radical strategy had been adopted , because the workplace and working relationships will probably remain intact , although the roles of the employees in it may change .
21 This has the important implication of presenting these young people as personally and socially deficient and incompetent .
22 This has the further benefit of helping to sustain or extend current routines through various kinds of provision .
23 As we see , from the following quote , this has the further effect of humiliating the teacher and leading to his loss of dignity :
24 This has the further consequence that a woman 's life is largely confined to private spaces — the home — while men dominate the public spaces outside the home .
25 This has the same free , metaphysical bearing on his being a drunkard that Raskolnikov 's wanting to dare has on his being a murderer .
26 This has the same view as Philip Swallow 's , but is smaller — indeed , rather too small for all the furniture it contains : a desk , bookcases , filing cabinets , a table and a dozen or so unstacked stacking chairs .
27 This has the same filename as the current version but with a different filename extension ; .
28 This has the obvious advantage that all countries match their local time to the hours of daylight , but it also means that different countries have different local times .
29 This has the obvious advantage of reducing the sheer volume of data to be gathered and processed but the disadvantage of being inflexible and possibly missing significant happenings because the category system did n't allow for them .
30 This has the positive advantage of giving them a broad-based appeal across a diversified range of industries and functions and always having somebody in the team who can potentially suit the chemistry of a particular client .
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