Example sentences of "this [vb -s] often [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 This has often treated technology as an end in itself , and not queried its wider relationship to firm activity or weighed its contribution to performance .
2 The twentieth century has seen many horrific examples of the power of wrong thinking , and this has often turned on matters of religion .
3 They are able to pursue a ‘ global strategy ’ , and this has often involved the closure of older plants in inner-city areas , with large losses of employment and of income to the local population .
4 This has often led him to tighten monetary policy while everybody around was urging him to ease .
5 The experience of trying to force one 's perceptions into preconceived categories , and the pain and distortion that this has often led to , is now used as a basis by feminist theorists for the argument that to see feeling as ‘ contaminating ’ objective , scientific knowledge points to a distortion of conceptualisation .
6 This seems unlikely now to lead to the formal designation of the three types of universities ( 'R' for research-based , ‘ X ’ for mixed , and ‘ T ’ for teaching only ) that has been mooted , but it seems probable that in practice the university system will become more overtly stratified than before ; there has always been an element of covert stratification , although this has often related to departments rather than whole institutions .
7 Along with this has often gone a general rejection of the idea of a First Philosophy , more secure than , or prior to , the sciences , and an acceptance of the naturalistic doctrine that a philosophical account of knowledge should be permitted to use empirical information drawn from the sciences .
8 However , this has often depended on individual special projects — and on the highly committed innovators who tend to run them .
9 This has often meant having to use pliers and then replacing the staples with new ones .
10 This has often resulted in the parents themselves becoming more interested in reading , and in their becoming more aware of the problem-solving nature of the process .
11 Almost all the advocates of the confessional approach today would in fact distance themselves from the kind of RE that this has often produced in the past .
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