Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When waves break it has been observed that a jet of water at the crest of the wave may move forward with twice the velocity of the wave as a whole , so that high pressures may be exerted for a period of a second or two on the cliff face . |
| 2 | Thus Dewey 's policy of integrity of numbers has found great favour : an undertaking has been made that a piece of notation will not be revised and given another meaning . |
| 3 | How the latter will be achieved remains to be seen , but it has been mooted that a surcharge should be levied on tropical timber , to be paid by the market , which could be used to undertake research into ways of achieving and ensuring tropical forest survival . |
| 4 | It has been argued that a State may intervene , even forcibly , in the affairs of another State without violating Article 2 ( 4 ) of the United Nations Charter , or the norm of non-intervention where the intervention is justified on humanitarian grounds , for example to stop gross violations of human rights . |
| 5 | The officers , whether beneficiarii , stratores or regionarii , might have been in charge of , and therefore accommodated in , the mansio , if one existed , though it has been argued that a beneficiarius , usually only a legionary , was too junior in status to have charge of such an important building . |
| 6 | Thus , it has been argued that a set of at least tacit beliefs that underlay aesthetic modernism also underlay the birth of classical sociological theory in the work of Weber , Simmel , and Durkheim . |
| 7 | It has been said that a devaluation would result in even higher interest rates . |
| 8 | It has been said that a person is judged by the company he keeps . |
| 9 | Much outrage has been expressed that a charity should be asked to sponsor the wine at dinner , for example , ( £1,000 plus VAT ) for a lot of highly paid public and private sector bigwigs . |
| 10 | So far it has been seen that a manager may help the advisers cope with pressure by encouraging social policy work in order to remove persistent client problems ; by training directed at problem management or interview management or by assigning a support role to a member of the team . |
| 11 | The title of the Institute and corporate members has been reviewed and following a consultation exercise with members the decision has been taken that a change would be inappropriate . |
| 12 | As a significant number of people with a normal resting ejection fraction die within the first year following infarction , it has been suggested that a fall in ejection fraction on exercise may identify this group . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that a minister for science and technology is needed to take charge of this programme and argue the case for science and technology . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that a bomb be simply defined as an ejected block with a shape sufficiently interesting to attract attention . |
| 15 | It has been suggested that a peptide within A-gliadin , which has sequence homology with the E1b protein of adenovirus 12 , may be an important epitope in the generation of such an aberrant immune response . |
| 16 | It has been held that a person on foot pushing a bicycle when using a zebra pedestrian crossing was a ‘ foot passenger ’ . |
| 17 | So it has been held that a provision in a statute that regulations made under the statute will take effect as if enacted in the statute ( that is , they will be unchallengeable as if they were made by Parliament ) does not prevent the courts holding the regulation to be ultra vires . |
| 18 | It has been held that a buyer under a conditional sale agreement is someone who ‘ bought or agreed to buy , ’ Lee v. Butler ( see Chapter 17 ) . |
| 19 | Even with the latter part of this clause ( as drafted ) included it has been held that a landlord must still make full disclosure and not mislead the tenant nor will these words protect the landlord from an action for misrepresentation or misdescription . |
| 20 | It has been held that a gift to a charity of shares in a close company gave rise to a charge to capital transfer tax where the company had an interest in possession in a trust ( p 106 ) . |
| 21 | It has been held that a justice who has originated an objection in the lower court is not , on that account alone , disqualified from taking part in the proceedings of the confirmation court or court of appeal : R. v. Leicester ) J. 11927 ] 1 K.B . |
| 22 | Contrary to the suggestion in para 18/8/10 of the 1993 White Book , it has been held that a claim for interest under s35A is sufficiently pleaded even if it only appears in the prayer and not also in the body of the pleading ( McDonald 's Hamburgers Ltd v Burgerking ( UK ) Ltd [ 1987 ] FSR 112 ) . |
| 23 | It is an implied term of the contract that the seller should have a right to sell the goods ( SGA 1979 , s12 ) and it has been held that a breach of this implied condition amounts to a total non-performance of the contract by the seller . |
| 24 | It has been held that a ship is equipment . |
| 25 | The public policy issue in these cases is that the courts do not want to deter rescue and it has been held that a duty of care is owed to rescuers ( Chadwick v British Railways Board [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 912 ) . |
| 26 | It has been held that a signal which was given with a lamp at night and which the driver failed to understand was not sufficient for failing to stop . |
| 27 | It has been proposed that a reduction in pay rises of 1% could create 200,000 jobs but before the jobs are created the demand must exist for our goods . |
| 28 | Although it has been proposed that a deficiency of endogenous prostaglandins due to inhibition of cycloocygenase by indomethacin is involved in these effects , the exact pathogenic mechanism remains to be elucidated . |
| 29 | It has been shown that a potency of a homoeopathic remedy has a higher viscosity than a straight dilution , without succussion , of the same remedy repeated the same number of times , suggesting that large molecules are present in the potency which do not occur in the straight dilution . |
| 30 | It has been shown that a number of older women remain ‘ active initiators ’ as in earlier life , rather than becoming ‘ passive responders ’ , even when being cared for ( Evers , 1983 ) . |