Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding has been confirmed by Spiker and Norcross ( 1962 ) . |
| 2 | This finding has been supported by various other firms and factories . |
| 3 | This finding has been attributed to the increased prevalence of hepatic dysfunction , with associated impairment of bile acid synthesis and contraction of the total bile acid pool , in adults with cystic fibrosis . |
| 4 | Although this framework has been usefully applied to higher education ( see Wright 1988 ) , its main impact has been on studies of the school curriculum . |
| 5 | It is only in recent decades that anything resembling this framework has been re-established . |
| 6 | Families of virtually all income levels get more out of the social services than they pay towards them and towards other public expenditure , although in recent years this advantage has been eroded . |
| 7 | One of the main reasons that the display looks so good is that it has been configured to use typographic faces as opposed to conventional typewriter-like text and this advantage has been further heightened by using typographic measurements throughout , each dot on the screen corresponds to 1 point . |
| 8 | Nonetheless welfare provisions for school children had made progress during the 1930s although because of the frequent economic crises this progress had been rather erratic . |
| 9 | The legislative measures corresponding to this change had been the Reform Act of 1832 and the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 , which recognised that the price of bread could no longer be controlled in the interest of British grain producers . |
| 10 | On the family farm this change had been , if anything , greater than on the larger units . |
| 11 | This change has been chiefly in the direction of the broadening of its outlook on life . ’ |
| 12 | The coordinating committee suggests that the appeal panel ask why this change has been made , and when Upjohn proposes to inform doctors of the change . |
| 13 | In Western Europe this change has been located anywhere between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 14 | Traditionally this change has been seen as an aspect of progress , fuelled by humanitarian ideals . |
| 15 | This change has been announced by the SIB and the SFA ; it will also affect firms regulated by IMRO . |
| 16 | This change has been brought about by the activities of prescriptive grammarians and educators , not — as the Harvard account implies — by some mysterious property of the language itself . |
| 17 | However , this change has been brought about almost entirely by the increase in the long-term unemployed rather than an increase in the living standards of older people in the lowest income groups ; it is not the result of a vast increase in the incomes of older people . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most obvious feature of this change has been the widespread development of out-of-town superstores and retail parks . |
| 19 | This change has been recommended by the Legal Services Ombudsman , and will require a change in the law , expected to come into force at the beginning of 1994 . |
| 20 | Compared with the competitive surplus of ACPc this change has been brought about by a loss of RCK , due to output restriction ( i.e. monopolisation per se ) and a creation of additional producer surplus of PcKEG , due to the ability of the enlarged monopolised firm to achieve lower costs . |
| 21 | The forerunner to this change has been the decision of the Jockey Club with its fairly visionary determination to give Sunday racing a kick start with the experimental meetings . |
| 22 | The implications of this change have been the subject of intense debate since 1978 . |
| 23 | In many ways this discrimination has been reduced , but it is still there . |
| 24 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
| 25 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’ |
| 27 | Ever since its own time this parliament has been known as the ‘ Good Parliament ’ ; it has been thoroughly analysed by modern historians , and the Anonimalle Chronicle of St Mary 's Abbey , York , preserves an account of the deliberations amongst the commons which surpasses in its detail any other surviving account of the debates in a fourteenth-century parliament . |
| 28 | This trick has been used since the last few years of the Vietnam war , and does not rely on any particularly outlandish circuitry . |
| 29 | The Quality Framework described in this Update has been shaped by those responses . |
| 30 | The existence of this funding has been the key factor in LEAs ' development of specialist appointments and experimental initiatives . |