Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [be] suggest that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For cervical cancer it has been suggested that physiological reasons make it more difficult to take good smears from older women . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that similar reactions may take place on background sulphate aerosols in the Antarctic stratosphere , but as yet there has been no unambiguous evidence for these reactions in the absence of polar stratospheric clouds ( although there have been observations of ozone loss attributed to volcanic aerosols ) . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that increased permeability is the result of changes in the epithelial cell mediated immune response . |
| 4 | Although such behaviour corresponds closely to the descriptions of other feral children , it is impossible to know whether these children might have developed similar patterns of behaviour even if brought up in greater contact with people , and it has been suggested that feral children might have been abandoned by their parents because of their behaviour problems . |
| 5 | As several million years are required for the transfer of a significant amount of heat to the surface of continental lithosphere , it has been suggested that hot spots are most likely to develop where the lithosphere is more or less stationary with respect to sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies as this would allow time for sustained heating to occur . |
| 6 | It has been suggested that non-cognitive theories of ethics do best with those ethical words such as ‘ good ’ and ‘ ought ’ which are most plausibly represented as purely valuational , while cognitivist theories ( which take moral knowledge and truth seriously ) do best with words such as ‘ brave ’ ’ loyal' and so forth ( LOVIBOND ) . |
| 7 | In several studies it has been suggested that gastrointestinal function is related to blood glucose concentrations . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that anthelmintic prophylaxis can be disposed of completely under this system but clinical PGE has sometimes occurred when treatment has been omitted . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that young birds use their magnetic sense to orient a compass based on the sun and the stars . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that extensive exposure of the core protein occurs more commonly in breast cancer than in other cancers , which would give SM3 some specificity for breast cancer . |
| 11 | However , it has been suggested that 50-60 clinical cases occur in Britain each year , sine many are not recorded . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that subjective risk in driving may have many similarities with emotional arousal in other circumstances , thus the best way to make predictions about the potential effects of subjective risk on memory for driving situations is to review the general literature on the relationship between arousal and memory . |
| 13 | The inquiry of 1259 was never put into effect , and it has been suggested that one reason for Edward 's visit to Gascony in 1273 was the ‘ desire to proceed to this measure ’ . |
| 14 | ( It has been suggested that one method by which a written constitution could be entrenched could be by " manufacturing " such a change in the norm of validity by altering the terms of the judicial oath so that judges would swear to uphold only laws which were in conformity with the constitutional provisions — per H. W. R. Wade , 1989 Hamlyn Lecture : Constitutional Fundamentals ) . |
| 15 | It has been suggested that one reason for Eadwine 's preferential treatment of the Kentish kingdom was the location there of the southern archbishopric at Canterbury , and there certainly emerged at this time a clear intention to implement Pope Gregory the Great 's original plan for two archiepiscopal sees among the Anglo-Saxons . |
| 16 | As there is at present in the United States an embargo against Iranian carpets , it has been suggested that renewed attention is being given to European examples . |
| 17 | However , it has been suggested that long-term factors still favour further consolidation . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that such small cups and a pebble were an ancient form of mortar and pestle for grinding what ? |
| 19 | It has been suggested that such sediments are characteristic of aseismic continental shelves as they move away from a mid-oceanic ridge . |
| 20 | At Great Dunmow , for instance , it has been suggested that such strips were up to c. 100 m ( 327 ft ) deep , while the Fosse Way southwest of Ilchester was lined by two successive rows of enclosures some 50 by 20 m ( 165 by 66 ft ) in size . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that such terranes are equivalent to oceanic plateaus , which are to be found in the present-day ocean basins and which often rise several kilometres above the adjacent ocean floor ( Fig. 3.32 ) . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and can not be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived . |
| 23 | It has been suggested that such a speculative bubble may have been responsible for the rapid rise in equity prices in 1987 . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that aneuploid cervical tumours are more radiosensitive than diploid tumours . |
| 25 | Some species grew in such a way that the last whorl overlaps the inner ones ; often these species become flat and discus-shaped : it has been suggested that this was a more ‘ streamlined ’ shape for active swimmers . |
| 26 | It has been suggested that this was the first time a summer pavilion had been adapted from a Greek temple . |
| 27 | And just to cap all this mythological irrelevance , the island of Vulcano is now linked by a small spit of land to another small volcano , Vulcanello , which used to be a separate island , and it has been suggested that this pair comprised the ‘ Scylla and Charybdis ’ , beloved of Homer and modern politicians , but then so have several other island pairs in the Mediterranean . |
| 28 | It has been suggested that this can happen with some food additives , particularly preservatives and synthetic colours . |
| 29 | Indeed , it has been suggested that this is precisely how lion prides arose , many years ago on the prey-rich plains of Africa , where the surplus of food led to an unusual increase in the lion population . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that this was a deliberate fix to discredit the royal printer . |