Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] that this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The aristocracy — ie. titled landowners — do still exist and have been joined by the very wealthy ( through ownership or investment ) : it has been reckoned that this 1% of adult population owns one-quarter of all the wealth in Britain .
2 It has been hypothesised that this characteristic is due to extra chromosomal material in the X chromosome as compared with the Y chromosome .
3 C/EBPα mRNA levels are down-regulated in mice by IL-6 ( 43 ) and since it has been demonstrated that this protein interacts with the albumin promoter , a negative AP gene , ( 44 ) this could explain the IL-6 dependent down-regulation of the albumin protein levels .
4 Often this has been because THE new housing market has been buoyant and it has been acknowledged that this market can not be missed as , at best , it is lost for a CONSIDERABLE time .
5 It has been argued that this approach may delay treatment of a victim of obstructed airway or primary respiratory arrest .
6 For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey .
7 ( 11.30 ) In Section 10.2 it has been argued that this solution must be considered to be unphysical on its own , but it may be included as a factor in more general solutions .
8 By the mid-1670s Peyton had become the leader of a republican group , ‘ Peyton 's Gang ’ , and it has been argued that this group had a hand in the murder of the JP Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey [ q.v. ] in 1678 , which provoked widespread belief in the bogus ‘ Popish Plot ’ .
9 It has been argued that this essay is vitiated by " bad faith " .
10 In common with Category 2 of the New South Wales legislation , it has been said that this offence is ‘ more significant for what it fails to include [ than ] for what it does include . ’
11 Traditionally , it has been assumed that this information is derived from non-visual sources such as the vergence angle of the eyes .
12 It has been suggested that this norm has altered and that the courts will recognise as valid only legislation which has been passed by both houses and given the royal assent , has not been repealed expressly or by implication and which accords with our obligations under community law .
13 The sense of joy and spiritual opportunity at the heart of this interpretation of human history and the life of faith is vibrantly embodied in a fifteenth-century carol : It has been suggested that this carol is guilty of reducing the mystery of God to human terms and redemption itself to " little more than a lark " .
14 It has been suggested that this stone was brought from the Cultoon circle but there is no evidence that it was ever there and no good reason has been given for making such a move .
15 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 .
16 It has been suggested that this form derives from that of the structure of the human eye itself , and may have been conceived by the theologist Fra' Paolo Sarpi , who collaborated on eye research in 1581–84 with Girolamo Fabrizio d'Acquapendente .
17 It has been suggested that this opinion establishes that members of an organisation do not remain ‘ masters of the treaty ’ in that they were unable to amend the constitutive treaty .
18 It has been suggested that this acetylation process may inactivate the drug , and the results of clinical treatment trials of Ac-ASA have been conflicting , with the drug being ineffective in two out of three trials .
19 It is clear that the measure of damages for the conversion of a negotiable instrument is prima facie the face value , not the value as paper but it has been held that this principle is inapplicable to non-negotiable documents such as holiday credit stamps .
20 A new class , the W-cells , has been added , descriptions of the properties of the three classes have been extended , and it has been shown that this segregation into three classes extends to subsequent stages in the visual system , including the visual cortex .
21 As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance .
22 It has been found that this form of conditioning can occur much more rapidly if the response prevents unpleasant stimuli occurring or stops them once they have started .
23 There is no similar obligation to report where a debentureholder enters into possession and it has been recommended that this omission be corrected .
24 Well , I think all I can do is to reiterate that this road would not be considered for construction at all at this stage if it was n't for the probable re-siting of the erm transfer station and therefore we would not be looking at any aspect of it at this time if it were not for that .
25 Rather oddly , in the context of a crisis in which the abolition of the House of Lords was under consideration , it seems to have been assumed that this reservation would present a realistic safeguard against a majority party in the House of Commons seeking to keep its government in power indefinitely rather than face the country .
26 Erm and i also need to be concerned that the health authority I think is claiming that this merger will actually give them a better erm size population for research purposes for for purchasing , however , I think that it may well be that particular health needs , people in West Essex and Harlow in particular which has , for example , a rapidly ageing population and therefore needs facilities had not been planned into the town by way of health erm , that those statistics , those pockets of need are going to get overlooked in a much more large and vast disparate statistical picture , stretching from Hertfordshire right across to the coast I think it 's too big a sample and we need to make sure that our specific needs are n't going to be overlooked in all that .
27 She had been determined that this baby would be hers .
28 However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth .
29 It had been anticipated that this group of fit and well motivated patients would have fared better , and allowed full assessment of the advantages of this technique , particularly as the patients were younger , median age 63 ( range 33–77 ) and fitter ( lower ASA grade ) .
30 Checks have been made that this bone was not missed during laboratory processing of the pellet samples , and there is little chance of bones being detached from pellets before collection because of the compact nature of barn owl pellets .
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