Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [vb pp] [that] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been observed that Christian fortresses in Syria on numerous occasions failed to act as any sort of check on the movement of Muslim armies . |
| 2 | More generally , it has been contended that international comparisons can be a trap : |
| 3 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 4 | However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract . |
| 5 | It has been argued that double-hulled vessels can be more hazardous in high-speed collisions than single-hulled vessels . |
| 6 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 7 | As it has been assumed that equal amounts of lactulose or other carbohydrate malabsorption will produce equal changes in breath H 2 excretion , rice starch malabsorption has been calculated as g malabsorbed carbohydrate according to the formula : |
| 8 | Until now it has been assumed that social changes are determined by events which have the same status in the sense that they may all be conditions and consequences of each other . |
| 9 | A broadening of AHDS eligibility is now proposed in the EEC 's agricultural structures review but much concern has been expressed that small farms could then be intensified , exacerbating the current conflict . |
| 10 | It has been seen that academic institutions have to abide by procedural fairness when applying disciplinary measures , as do trade unions , and it has now been held that prison Visitors and governors exercising their disciplinary functions are subject to certiorari for breach of natural justice . |
| 11 | Some children are able to discriminate in this way between people they know and people they do not ; while it has been noted that institutional children tend to show less anxiety at a strange face since there is no regular " caretaker " . |
| 12 | It has been considered that therapeutic drugs such as sulphasalazine ( SASP ) , 5-aminosalicylic acid ( 5-ASA ) , and prednisolone ( PSL ) may reduce the accelerated cytotoxicity . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It has been claimed that modern-day pygmies of Malaysia and the Philippines or the Indians of Central America could have left similar prints . |
| 17 | It has been suggested that young birds use their magnetic sense to orient a compass based on the sun and the stars . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For cervical cancer it has been suggested that physiological reasons make it more difficult to take good smears from older women . |
| 23 | However , it has been suggested that long-term factors still favour further consolidation . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that different degrees of probability should apply depending on the nature of the allegation . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that seasonal migrations could explain their presence , but this hypothesis is untenable . |
| 26 | It has been held that racist remarks made by an employer to an employee can amount to unlawful discrimination at work ( p 114 ) . |
| 27 | Therefore it has been proposed that intronic ORFs may be capable of their own evolution , independent of the intervening sequence in which they reside ( 44 , 46 , 19 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Recently it has been shown that normal volunteers efficiently absorb an oral load of 100 g of rice starch with minimal generation of breath H 2 . |
| 30 | It has been shown that anxious individuals rend to interpret ambiguous stimuli in line with a threatening interpretation if one is available . |