Example sentences of "this has been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This has been highlighted in two lines of decisions in road traffic cases where the plaintiffs ' damages have been reduced , even though they in no way caused or contributed to the accidents in which they were injured .
2 This has been recognised for some time , perhaps most articulately in France , as one of the attainments to be expected from a top-class academic teacher and researcher , with an outstanding ability in accurate communication with the men ( and women ) in the street : haute popularisation .
3 This has been recognised in particular by UK companies , and only a minority of large UK companies do not now use graphical means of data presentation in their corporate annual reports .
4 This has been caused by infected suburban foxes from the east ( where until last month there was no vaccination programme ) finding their way into the city centre and crossing what was once the border into West Berlin .
5 The birds ' filters enhance their sensitivity to red , and this has been exploited by other creatures .
6 This has been demonstrated in conventional medical circles in the study of psychosomatic illness and the placebo effect , and in certain alternative medical practices such as faith healing and yoga .
7 QUALITY COUNTS in Lothian Regional Council and this has been demonstrated by another successful BS 5750 certification .
8 This has been followed by some authorities and voluntary agencies who developed codes , which they apply in relation to the homes which they administer .
9 The success of Britain ‘ s efforts within Europe can therefore largely be judged in terms of the rate at which trade has expanded between Member States , the extent to which this has been based on free and fair competition , and on whether there has been a significant increase in trade between countries of the EEC and the world outside .
10 Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it .
11 The decline of British manufacturing industry has had a devastating impact on the inner cities where such a large proportion of the black population live and this has been exacerbated by racial discrimination by employers to yield high levels of black youth unemployment ( Martin and Rowthorn , 1986 ; Newnham , 1986 ) .
12 This has been funded by Scottish Enterprise through the Glasgow Development Agency .
13 This has been documented in various Third World countries , notably Nigeria ( see Ihonvbere and Shaw , 1988 ) , Brazil ( Evans , 1979 ) and Egypt ( Gillespie , 1984 ) , and my own research on class forces along the US-Mexican border ( Sklair , 1989 ) and the Hong Kong-China border ( Sklair , forthcoming ) is cast in the same mould .
14 This has been covered to some extent in the past by ‘ awareness ’ and ‘ technology transfer ’ programmes .
15 To the extent that social research more generally has retained an interest in social reform this has been redirected in various ways .
16 With the exception of the higher rate of SSP to which I have already referred , this has been applied to all the relevant main benefits rates — notably retirement pensions , war pensions , widows ' pensions , invalidity benefit , severe disablement allowance , the disability living allowance rates equivalent to the present mobility and attendance allowances , invalid care allowance , industrial injuries benefits , and the national insurance benefits for unemployment , sickness and maternity .
17 One favoured process is known as back-arc spreading and this has been applied to several such basins .
18 This has been represented as some kind of martyrdom on Lewis 's part ; and doubtless , like any long-term relationship , it called for reserves of patience and good humour on both sides .
19 This has been studied in many parishes and has led to some changes of heart and attitudes .
20 This has been contested by many students of welfare systems .
21 ( Like many new proteins this has been discovered by different groups , which have given it different names . )
22 Until now SuperCalc has lacked a ‘ best fit ’ option for setting column width and this has been rectified in this release .
23 WACC 's thinking on this has been expressed in several official statements , including the Statement on Communication and Development of 1985 .
24 This has been assisted by some former colonial possessions in Africa maintaining strong economic , financial and trading relationships with France .
25 This has been achieved despite direct competition for the German Government Bond contract from the recently created Deutsche Terminbörse ( DTB ) in Frankfurt , which has had considerable support from the German financial community .
26 This has been achieved with close attention to aerodynamics of the whole vehicle with careful control of cooling airflow and a smooth floorpan with integrated exhaust system and fuel tank .
27 This has been achieved by due consideration of the surrounding community whenever new development projects are considered and by planned maintenance of existing plant and machinery .
28 This has been confirmed in rigorous calculations by Konkowski and Helliwell ( 1989 ) .
29 This has been confirmed by direct measurement of ascitic plasminogen activating activity and has led to speculation that an infusion of plasminogen activators could stimulate a coagulopathy mediated by primary fibrinolysis .
30 This has been done on these triangles .
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