Example sentences of "[noun] of this [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One result of this has been a contraction in the value that venture capitalists can put on for particular businesses . |
| 2 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 3 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 4 | The predictable result of this has been a plethora of cases in which the courts have been called upon to rule in what circumstances an assault may be described as sexual . |
| 5 | An indication of this has been the reduction in the activities of the rural underworld , which was such a thriving feature of village life when it was an occupational community , but which has now virtually disappeared . |
| 6 | The most noticeable effect of this has been very high levels of unemployment in France ( 2.8 million in October 1991 ) . |
| 7 | One effect of this has been the interest of larger companies in cheaper methods of lens fabrication ( such as direct-cast polymerisation of lenses ) and the economics of scale . |
| 8 | The paradoxical effect of this has been to put the researcher , including the one who claims to be working within applied linguistics , at a remove from the only contexts of application which can provide substantiating evidence for the relevance of the research . |
| 9 | The effect of this has been held to be that , even if the company omits to put them on the register they become members and holders of the number of shares stated . |
| 10 | The contradictions of this have been delightfully illustrated . |
| 11 | The hazards , difficulties and expense of this have been greatly exaggerated ; the usefulness in creating interest and provoking genuine subject study can be considerable . |
| 12 | A further and more complex instance of this has been the National Accelerated Development Programme ( NADP ) . |
| 13 | At the heart of this has been the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 14 | The great majority of this has been covered by CPRW from our revenue account and through special appeals to our 3,500 members . |
| 15 | Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather , but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development . |
| 16 | The effects of this have been massive job losses , the casualization of the labour force , a profound erosion of trade union power , and the virtual cessation of training to replace human capital in the form of skilled labour . |
| 17 | The scene of this has been identified as Chapel Point near Mevagissey . |
| 18 | The assumptions and implications of this have been exhaustively written about , ( e.g. Mittler , 1979 ; Ryan and Thomas , 1987 ) in relation to mental handicap , and on a broader front on medicalisation in general ( Illich , 1977 ; McKnight , 1977 ; Kennedy , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Although no record of this has been found , on 10 May the division split into two groups . |
| 20 | The consequence of this has been that the Coal Board has been forced to borrow substantial sums from the National Loans Fund , and from other sources under Treasury Guarantee , to finance the new and redeveloped capacity considered necessary by the NCB . |
| 21 | One consequence of this has been a distrust of geometric intuition and the downgrading of geometry by educationalists over the past 50 years or so . |
| 22 | One negative consequence of this has been that positive Christian theology on the one hand and the study of religion on the other have very largely tended to go their separate ways ; and this too does little to resolve the problem posed by Troeltsch himself . |
| 23 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 24 | The consequence of this has been the incorporation into the political sphere of issues which were previously barely regarded as political at all . |
| 25 | By analogy with other Zechstein carbonate units , it is possible that an oolitic-barrier or reef complex also may have been deposited at the edge of the platform but no evidence of this has been reported so far . |
| 26 | To Cnut and some of his contemporaries this world still mattered , and evidence of this has been found where it might have been least expected . |
| 27 | The cultural impact of this has been well researched and extensively commented upon elsewhere . |
| 28 | The best example of this has been the deployment of the HST fleet . |
| 29 | One example of this has been the production of specific antibodies ( monoclonals ) made by fusing tumour cells and lymphocytes . |
| 30 | A good example of this has been the recent discussion over anti-discriminatory legislation . |