Example sentences of "[det] has [verb] to the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I am well aware that criticism is levelled at the MEP by classroom teachers who argue that too little has penetrated to the level of the teacher from the programme , ’ said Roger Conibear , director of the programme 's unit in the West Midlands .
2 Each has contributed to the massive genetic erosion of the food chain .
3 It is precisely that type of distortion — misleading and alarming people — that has led to the public reaction .
4 Speculation is surrounding the future of Brazil 's Angra-1 nuclear plant , following an unexplained accident in March that has led to the reactor 's indefinite closure .
5 Just think of what that has done to the system there and to all the other applicants who have been seeking help from a Department that tries to ensure that people are given the awards to which they are entitled .
6 It is possible that this has contributed to the risk of the glider zooming too high just after take off .
7 This has contributed to the widespread adoption and acceptance of Swahili .
8 This has contributed to the widening gap between ‘ haves ’ and ‘ have-nots ’ recorded in recent times , which some would argue undermines social cohesion and ultimately impoverishes the quality of life for everyone in society .
9 This has led to the tying of aid to a large extent to inappropriate or unduly expensive goods from the donor 's country , to sharp annual variations in the volume of aid flows and to a lack of commitment to real coordination with other donors .
10 The special circumstances of territorial displacement and the withdrawal of adult supervision , which appear to have been more pronounced in Britain than in other parts of western Europe where the family is stronger as a recreational unit , have made the problem worse here than elsewhere ; this has led to the formation of the ‘ ends ’ which in turn has tended to attract a small fascist and psychotic fringe .
11 This has led to the legitimate graphic device of breaking the further line as it passes behind the near line .
12 His enthusiasm for this has led to the interpolation of several texts .
13 This has led to the speculation that these overweighted skulls led to the animal 's extinction , as a kind of anti-evolutionary regression .
14 This has led to the economists ' expectation that the outturn will be £32bn or more .
15 This has led to the claim that British merger policy has potentially represented a Charter for Conglomerates , although it should be noted that , as discussed in the next subsection , there has been a move away from diversification and conglomerates , especially after the Stock Market Crash of 1987 .
16 This has led to the suggestion that there was an eclipse of the sun .
17 This has led to the view that Bismarck 's real aim was to stifle Austro-Russian conflict by attaching Austria-Hungary to Germany , so that he could hold her back and prevent the two autocracies from mutual destruction .
18 This has led to the proposal that CaMKII can act as a form of molecular memory , recording the occurrence of a previous Ca 2+ transient .
19 In some cases this has led to the formation of unofficial cartels often with the tacit support of MITI , but the whole process has led to a ‘ systematic undoing of the American-inspired anti-monopoly legislation both in letter and spirit ’ ( Yamamura 1982 p.81 ) .
20 The site is only four miles from Corinium and this has led to the speculation that the establishment may have had a special function in a large estate .
21 Councillors differ in their attitude to their role and this has led to the development by political scientists of typologies to describe the variations .
22 This has led to the emergence of a number of commercial pen-based systems , such as PenWindows , Paragraph and PenPoint .
23 Sometimes , as in Chile in 1973 , this has led to the destruction of electoral democracy itself .
24 Arguably this has led to the break-up of the old trade union structures and increased management 's ability to obtain flexibility of labour .
25 Combined with the decline in the political influence of the great aristocracy this has led to the notion of a ‘ crisis of the nobility ’ .
26 This has led to the conceptualisation of older people from minority ethnic communities as being in ‘ double jeopardy ’ ( Dowd and Bengtson , 1978 ) .
27 In some cases this has led to the complete break up of production lines into autonomous circuits , each operated by teams of employees using their skills on a shared or flexible basis .
28 This has led to the practice of banks issuing ‘ rollover ’ CDs , i.e. six-month CDs with a guarantee of further renewal on specified terms .
29 This has led to the argument that there is no essential difference between debt and tax finance .
30 This has led to the development of Diagnostic Related Groups ( DRGs ) — a method of ‘ classifying inpatients into a manageable number of groups , which are both clinically meaningful and homogeneous in resource use ’ ( Culyer and Brazier , 1988 ) .
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