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

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1 It has been calculated that some 37% of families would be better off , and 37% worse off , as a result of the change from Community Charge to the Council tax .
2 It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families .
3 In that regard it has been reported that increased levels of substance P are observed in patients with advanced liver failure and that these correlate with the degree of hypotension .
4 It has been reported that gastric infusion of bile salts in rats delays gastric emptying and inhibits small bowel transit time .
5 It has been claimed that prolonged remissions of Crohn 's disease can be achieved after enteral or parenteral nutrition , by identifying and excluding foods that exacerbate a patient 's symptoms .
6 It has been claimed that antinuclear antibodies of autoimmune chronic hepatitis reacts with an antigen which is homogeneously distributed within the nucleus and this gives a ‘ homogeneous ’ pattern ( ANA-H ) of positivity by immunofluorescence .
7 It has been claimed that modern-day pygmies of Malaysia and the Philippines or the Indians of Central America could have left similar prints .
8 This is also true in sugar maples , where it has been claimed that undamaged plants near the damaged ones have increased levels of phenolics and hydrolyzable and condensed tannins , suggesting an airborne cue from the damaged to the undamaged , which then become less attractive to herbivores .
9 However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances .
10 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 .
11 Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection .
12 Allegations have been made that successful convictions in a number of key murder trials have been dependent upon confession evidence which has been improperly obtained during police interrogation .
13 It has been argued that these divisions within the working class are unreconcilable and prevent it acting as a strong , united , radical force .
14 It has been argued that British membership of the EEC imposes a legal not simply a political limitation on Parliament .
15 It has been argued that corporate efficiency in privatised industries has improved , not just by an exposure to market forces and an acceptance of the profit motive , but by the extra freedom given to managers .
16 It has since been accepted that this kind of arrangement can not be accommodated at most other council buildings .
17 is going to happen , it 's a question of whether we g go for three hours ' training we I think we 're agreeing that some sort of preliminary training is going to come forward but not necessary three hours .
18 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 ) .
19 An inquest has been told that two tyres on one of the cars involved were seriously under-inflated .
20 ‘ What is even more disturbing , ’ the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress said in a letter to Dr Banda dated 3 April , ‘ we have been told that several members of the Malawi Congress Party have called for the bishops ' death by an orchestrated mob . ’
21 They are told that this sort of question or embellishment is inappropriate .
22 It has been shown that oral administration of lipid mixtures containing surface-active phospholipids provides significant protection to the gastric mucosa against a variety of ulcerogenic agents , including acid .
23 As Friends of the Earth comment : ‘ There are alternatives available , and it 's been shown that heavy treatment with chemicals is unnecessary .
24 Today , herbivory in the crowns of mature trees in lowland rain forest in geographically distinct regions in the New and Old Worlds leads to 13.8–14.6% tissue loss in the leafy branches of trees , but consistently less in epiphytes , while in Ghana it has been shown that those plants with a rapid flush of leaves are consistently less severely attacked than those with a slower leaf production .
25 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 .
26 It has recently been shown that daily administration of high doses of fenbendazole to the bitch from three weeks pre-partum to three weeks post-partum has largely eliminated transmammary and prenatal infection of the pups , although residual infection in the brain may persist .
27 I mention this here because it has sometimes been thought that this type of community is abnormal or atypical .
28 At this macro level of analysis it has been demonstrated that older people in Britain experience an income level relative to other members of society which is considerably below that enjoyed by their counterparts in Europe and North America ( Hedstrom and Ringen 1987 ) .
29 It has been recognised that personal effectiveness in all aspects of life , including work , requires the development of certain broad transferable skills .
30 For some time , it had been recognised that significant numbers of promising young players were being lost to the game by a lack of a smooth transition from school to senior club .
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