Example sentences of "[noun sg] this have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In our day this has degenerated into the assumption that virtually every personal misfortune can be blamed upon some authority or institution — usually the government of the day .
2 In turn this has resulted in the need to develop explanations to justify why younger people have ceased looking after the needs of their elderly relatives .
3 One of the other advantages of this scheme is that the student erm spends some months each year in the company , and in a number of cases in the past this has led to the student erm getting a job when he leaves .
4 Combined with the decline in the political influence of the great aristocracy this has led to the notion of a ‘ crisis of the nobility ’ .
5 The first day also gave us the sight of an England captain losing the toss on his birthday , the first time this has happened in the history of Test cricket .
6 Although the United States accepted the case for the dollar eventually being convertible into SDRs , in its view this had to result from the dollar being sufficiently competitive to generate enough capital and current account surpluses over a period to make convertibility a reality .
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