Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb -s] be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also provide some support for the thesis proposed by earlier studies of temporary workers ( particularly Meager , 1985 ) , where it has been argued that there is a strong association between growing organisations and users of temporary labour . |
| 2 | It is worth emphasising again the ‘ dark ’ statistics of unreported crime , which is particularly relevant here where it has been estimated that 70 per cent of computer crime is unreported , because of the fear of loss of public confidence in the financial institutions concerned . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 5 | Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations . |
| 6 | Although it has been argued that nectar might contain repellents to ants that otherwise predominate on sugary substrates in the tropics , it is found that ants will take this nectar when it is presented to them , though the floral parts of such flowers may be less palatable . |
| 7 | Although it has been claimed that the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher had no carefully thought-through strategy to deal with the unions when it came into office , but rather proceeded pragmatically ( Roberts , 1989 ) , nevertheless ( Young , 1990 , p. 353 ) : |
| 8 | Sexual intercourse is defined as the penetration of the penis into the vagina : ejaculation is not required , and the offence is committed as soon as penetration takes place , although it has been held that the offence continues throughout penetration ( so that if the woman revokes her consent during intercourse and the man fails to withdraw , he commits rape ) . |
| 9 | To resist an arrest might also involve an obstruction and an assault , although it has been held that merely pulling away from another is not an assault for the purposes of the offence of assault with intent to resist an arrest . |
| 10 | The privilege would not stretch to reports of fresh statements made by speakers after the protected meeting has been closed , although it has been held that it does extend far enough to allow those who have spoken in the course of the meeting to repeat their privileged statements to reporters afterwards so that the latter may check the accuracy of their notes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The stubby third leg is probably the result of the difficulty of building on the marshy ground near the River Welland , although it has been suggested that the ‘ Blackfriars Spur ’ forms the phallus of the bull . |
| 13 | The working principle is that obstructions are built into the lock to prevent the wrong shape of key from working the mechanism , and similar designs of lock are still use today ( although it has been suggested that the Romans were not able to invent a lock that could be operated from both sides of a door ) . |
| 14 | GCHQ has denied any involvement in intercepting , recording or disclosing the royal recordings … although it 's been suggested that an internal inquiry may already be underway at the Cheltenham centre . |
| 15 | And so was the famous old Raffles Hotel ( although it 's been rebuilt since his visit ) just as he remembered it — from the outside , that is . |
| 16 | Just as the post-war local government system can be understood as a key element of the social-democratic consensus developed in that period , so it has been argued that ‘ what is needed is a new municipal culture ’ to fit the changed social and economic realities of the late twentieth century ( Walker , 1983 , p. 10 ) . |
| 17 | Methadone does not follow the same metabolic pathways as morphine , so it has been suggested that it may be useful in morphine resistant nociceptive ( paradoxical ) pain . |
| 18 | Once it has been accepted that they need continuing care their responsibility for maintaining themselves is removed . |
| 19 | Indeed , sites which were generally successful often attracted organs of government to them , as was the case with the cities and major towns , but in these and other instances it is always difficult to distinguish the primary function once it has been overlaid or mixed with others . |
| 20 | Once it has been determined that the county court has jurisdiction to hear the particular proceedings , the question arises where those proceedings should be issued , ie whether in the county court or in the High Court . |
| 21 | Once it has been acknowledged that linguistic differentiation is a particularly salient manifestation of the tendency of communities to mark out gender distinctions by a variety of means , it is difficult , given the general orientation of current sociolinguistics , to progress further in finding a convincing explanation of linguistic sex-marking . |
| 22 | There was some confusion in court as to whether a private prosecution can be withdrawn once it has been decided that there is a case to answer . |
| 23 | Once it has been announced that the area is to be extended perhaps I could meet a member of your staff on site to consider the implications in relation to the existing planting . |
| 24 | Once it has been established that D was committing a criminal offence , the second step is to establish that this caused the death . |
| 25 | Once it has been established that the vehicle or its use is not exempt the type of motor vehicle should be described in the police officer 's statement . |
| 26 | Once it has been allowed that the procedure used in these various studies of flavour pre-exposure might have used insensitive measures of conditioning , it becomes inappropriate to place much reliance on them as demonstrating a dissociation of habituation and latent inhibition . |
| 27 | Once it has been shown that the matter in question always reacts in the same way under fixed conditions , a theory can be devised to explain its behaviour . |
| 28 | You also have , I 'm gon na set up a sub-committee called the Form sub-committee to meet after Christmas er , to review this work , once it 's been done and decide what to do with the , all the other forms that are n't versions . |
| 29 | Issued , it 's written when you fill in the application form or submit it , it 's issued once it 's been underwritten or been accepted by the drug dealer if you like . |
| 30 | The Government should halt the issue of licences to build further gas-powered stations until it has been demonstrated that they do produce cheaper electricity . |