Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 But this has yet to be reflected in policy .
2 This has yet to be fully explored but one publication at least gives useful guidance in this .
3 This has yet to be proved in everyday commercial use but he believes it can be done .
4 This has yet to be approved but , even so , it is unlikely to be the end of the argument .
5 Nor was the sound level on the main roads increased despite the greater concentration of traffic there ; indeed the smoother driving on these roads may have reduced the sound level of some of them , though this has yet to be verified .
6 Neighbourhood manager Sue Bennett feels this has yet to be recognised nationally , but is certain to become a major issue in future .
7 There may have been some dietary change , despite the absence of change in enamel thickness , but this has yet to be tested .
8 We might expect to find regularities in the roles team members play in relation to the visionary , but this has yet to be established .
9 This has yet to be agreed .
10 The readiness of Scots to migrate at this period has prompted suggestions that there were forces inherent in Scottish society which encouraged high levels of mobility and a propensity to migrate , but this has yet to be shown .
11 This has all to be seen in the context of the profound fatalism about life itself .
12 This needs always to be stressed .
13 For some patients this seems superficially to be effective , but for men or women whose background or culture more readily allows them to express feeling , this is very difficult .
14 This seems partly to be because ‘ human nature ’ , interpreted biologically , is a popular last resort explanation of human behaviour .
15 But this seems also to be the stance of anomie theory : the anomic individuals are clearly pushed and constrained yet , within those constraints , they manage to invent rational solutions ( in the sense that these solutions come about through internal reasoning processes , rather than as an autonomic response ) .
16 Fund accounting is merely one more attempt by accountants to report on a complex reality more sensitively ; although this seems inevitably to be at the expense of general understandability .
17 This seems mainly to be because Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson — for once in agreement — refuse to admit the existence of the crisis .
18 The line of descent may be further restricted by making the estate an estate in tail-male , i.e. one descendible only to males and only in the male line , or conceivably ( though in practice this appears never to be done ) in tall-female descendible only to and through females .
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