Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb -s] be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past half century or so it has been discovered that water is a very strange substance indeed , exhibiting many anomalous and unexpected characteristics , some of which have already been mentioned in Chapter 7 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But nevertheless it 's been done and the debate can be held under the auspices of the District Plan . |
| 4 | Thus it has been observed that ‘ it remains unclear whether the abolition of corporal punishment in schools results from a spread of child-centred views or not : references to parents ' rather than children 's rights to decide school policies make such interpretation doubtful ’ . |
| 5 | Thus it has been shown that with professional pre-planning and management , exhibitions can be a powerful sales tool and not the expensive luxury that many companies regard them to be . |
| 6 | Thus it has been suggested that a key difference between invertebrate and vertebrate brains is that in the former a great deal of power and responsibility could be invested in a single cell or even synapse which in the vertebrate nervous system would be more widely distributed . |
| 7 | Thus it has been estimated that one in four women who lose their jobs do not appear in the monthly claimant count . |
| 8 | Thus it has been held that the display of goods on the shelves of a self-service shop is not an offer , Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v. Boots Cash Chemists ( 1952 D.C. ) . |
| 9 | Thus it has been held that there was a course of dealing where the parties contracted three or four times per month for three years ( Kendall v Lillico ) and where there had been 81 transactions over a period of six years ( SIAT di del Ferro v Tradax Overseas SA [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 470 ) , but not where there had been only three or four contracts over a five-year period ( Hollier v Rambler Motors ( AMC ) Ltd [ 1972 ] 2 QB 71 ; in addition the alleged course of dealing was not consistent ) . |
| 10 | Conversely it has been argued that if the composition of the House of Lords was altered , giving it more credibility , then its powers should correspondingly be increased . |
| 11 | In fact , more generally it has been shown that the most important single cause of violence in labour disputes in the USA during the early years of the twentieth century , involving at least 700 deaths and several thousand serious injuries , was the denial of union recognition for purposes of collective bargaining ( Taft and Ross , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Elsewhere it has been argued that ecosystems are ordered arrangements of matter in which energy inputs carry out work ( Stoddart , 1965 ) and that if the energy input is removed the structure will break down until the components are randomly arranged which with maximum entropy is the most probable state . |
| 13 | Elsewhere it has been suggested that ‘ the overriding objective which the law of rape should seek to pursue is the protection of sexual choice . ’ |
| 14 | That rich mixture is likely to continue into the next election , because already it has been announced that the prospective parliamentary candidates for the Thanet , South seat in the next election will include a Mr. William Pitt and the leader of the Corrective party , Miss Whiplash . |
| 15 | Already it has been demonstrated that groundwater abstraction is high relative to the theoretical renewable resource , and that much of the groundwater is contaminated with nitrate . |
| 16 | First , the pupils , teachers and practitioners of science are overwhelmingly male in terms of numbers ; second , school science is packaged and presented to appeal to boys , not girls ; third , classroom behaviours and interaction operate to reconstruct science as a male activity , and finally it has been suggested that ‘ scientific ’ thinking embodies an intrinsically masculine world view . |
| 17 | Finally it has been suggested that the likenesses between the Andokides Painter 's work and the Siphnian frieze might be explained by his having started as a sculptor there , then come on to the Kerameikos to invent red-figure under the inspiration of relief-colouring . |
| 18 | Meanwhile it 's been revealed that thirty people have been arrested and thousands of pounds worth of drugs seized during raids in North Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | Meanwhile it 's been announced that Smith Industries , the areospace contractors based in Gloucestershire , are to share in a two hundred and thirty five million pound contract from Romania . |
| 20 | Sometimes it has been argued that the evolution was the other way round ; and more recently still it has been argued that no evolution in either direction took place . |
| 21 | You know if you buy a car that 's been , like it 's been pinched or something like that ? |
| 22 | Traditionally it has been believed that both are needed , as in the Sun for example where fifteen million degrees and a central density more than 100 times that of water are only just enough , or high pressures and temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees aimed for in the hot fusion programmes . |
| 23 | Traditionally it has been assumed that this is at the interendothelial slits where the red cells enter the venous sinuses from the reticuloendothelial meshwork . |
| 24 | Traditionally it has been thought that meteorites were formed at the same time as the solar planets , and the composition of them was used as a ‘ fossil guide ’ to the make-up of the planets . |
| 25 | Similarly it has been suggested that a weak hydrogen bond , which is strong enough to induce miscibility can form between the carbonyl unit of poly ( methyl methacrylate ) and the α-hydrogen of poly ( vinyl chloride ) ( example 3 where ) . |
| 26 | Hence it has been assumed that because the user carries out known-item searches , known items do meet the user 's information needs . |
| 27 | Now it has been decided that men , with all their brow-mopping and weeping , are simply invading the seminal female experience , which should really be carried out in a darkened sweat lodge with only women as company . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Until now it has been thought that interferon can do little to prevent the initial entry of viruses into a cell . |
| 30 | Now it 's been announced that the division will continue to operate , but as a separate company and with just under half the staff . |