Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [be] observed that " in BNC.

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1 However , it has also been observed that those with wrinkled testa ( coats ) appear to be slower to germinate and may well benefit from piercing , scratching or abrasion .
2 It has also been observed that moderate alcohol drinkers ( two glasses of wine , beer or whisky a day ) have higher levels of HDLs in their blood ; so it seems that a small tipple each day may actually be good for you .
3 It has also been observed that although these patients continue to experience chest pain , the knowledge that the oesophagus is the source of this reduces their perception of the disability and their requests to see a physician .
4 A variety of tempers were used as additives to clays ; whether the choice was conscious or not has yet to be studied , although it has already been observed that the same clay was used with different tempers in certain places .
5 It has already been observed that male compositors had virtually boycotted the machines at first .
6 It has already been observed that the statistics on higher education group subjects and courses in certain ways , and this is true not only of DES data , but other sources , such as the NAB and USR classifications ( the latter recently revised ) , or the transbinary database being established under the aegis of the CNAA ( Bourner 1984 ) .
7 It has frequently been observed that many classroom interactions do not conform to the rules of normal conversation , and this applies particularly to teachers ' use of questions ( e.g. , Barnes , 1969 ; Stubbs , 1976 ; Edwards , 1980 ) .
8 It has frequently been observed that bureaucrats have their own economic and political interests .
9 In line with Jackson 's view it has sometimes been observed that the ability to sing may be preserved despite severe expressive aphasia ( Yamadori , Osumi , Masuhara and Okubo , 1977 ) , injection of amylobarbitone into the left carotid artery in a left speech-dominant patient ( Gordon and Bogen , 1974 ) and even in the total absence of the left half of the brain following hemispherectomy ( Gott , 1973 ) .
10 It has often been observed that , whilst old age is not an illness , it does bring with it an increased susceptibility to illness and disease .
11 It has often been observed that the flint and stone industries of the Middle and early Late Pleistocene , the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic assemblages of prehistory , developed in the direction of greater comeliness as well as greater technical efficiency .
12 In areas of endemic haemonchosis it has often been observed that after the advent of a period of heavy rain the faecal worm egg counts of sheep infected with H. contortus drop sharply to near zero levels due to the expulsion of the major part of the adult worm burden .
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