Example sentences of "be [verb] that [adj] [noun] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been hypothesised that this characteristic is due to extra chromosomal material in the X chromosome as compared with the Y chromosome . |
| 2 | I am suggesting that this relationship is also to be found in games , in the arts and in life . |
| 3 | It has been claimed that automatic crystallisation is unfair in the sense that it could prejudice subsequent chargees who do not know , and indeed who may have no way of knowing , that the charge has crystallised . |
| 4 | It has often been claimed that English speech is rhythmical , and that the rhythm is detectable in the regular occurrence of stressed syllables ; of course , it is not suggested that the timing is as regular as a clock — the regularity of occurrence is only relative . |
| 5 | There has been a tendency more recently , however , for deaf people to be wary of consecutive interpreting where they may feel information is added to , or subtracted from , the message ( Allsop and Kyle , 1982 ) , even though for spoken languages it has usually been felt that consecutive interpreting is much more effective and much easier to check for the validity of the interpretation ( Herbert , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | In common with Category 2 of the New South Wales legislation , it has been said that this offence is ‘ more significant for what it fails to include [ than ] for what it does include . ’ |
| 7 | It appears from experiments in which platelet-membrane fractions have been separated that thromboxane synthesis is associated with intracellular membranes known as dense tubular membranes ( Carey et al , 1982 ) . |
| 8 | This requires diagnostic skills normally associated with doctors , but it has long been suspected that this responsibility is generally left entirely to the DN , so this section begins with an analysis of DN responses to the question : ‘ Who decided on current treatment ? ’ before examining that treatment . |
| 9 | It has been argued that romantic love is a relatively modern phenomenon , reserved in earlier times for the delight of troubadours and the illicit pleasures of the rich . |
| 10 | It has sometimes been argued that marine erosion is not active at present because raised beaches are still preserved on exposed parts of the coast , e.g. on Gower in South Wales and at Brighton . |
| 11 | It has been argued that this essay is vitiated by " bad faith " . |
| 12 | It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 13 | Well no we 're not saying any such thing , we 're saying that this format is not very helpful and that Wendy is learning , is going to learn format that is better . |
| 14 | Now we are told that universal capping is necessary because the Secretary of State and his colleagues are frightened of trusting local people to make local decisions under the new banded system . |
| 15 | Many businessmen are complaining that this recession is even worse than that of the early 1980s ( especially in engineering — see next page ) . |
| 16 | One 's hopes are raised that Scots law is to get at least some adequate mention , but these hopes founder on the title of the very first chapter , ‘ The Incorporation of European Community Law into English Law ’ . |
| 17 | It has been proposed that colorectal carcinogenesis is accompanied by increased mucosal cell proliferation and that the converse may also apply . |
| 18 | ‘ We are saying that higher education is on the point of collapse , and unless something very radical is done to repair that damage we are going to have a completely different type of education system in the future , ’ he said . |
| 19 | It should be explained that such efficiency is practically impossible nowadays , for many reasons , chiefly because of what is termed as ‘ lines of demarcation ’ . |
| 20 | However it should be emphasized that nominal responsibility is not necessarily indicative of time devoted to training . |
| 21 | But it must be added that this meaning is never the right one : superstructures are faulty acts which have ‘ made it ’ socially . |
| 22 | This is because their world knowledge tells them that the banks found near rivers are not usually of the financial type ( although it must be stressed that this interpretation is not wrong , it is just less likely ) . |
| 23 | It should be stressed that this complication is rare , and only a minority of cases go on to develop long-term problems . |
| 24 | Finally , it may be claimed that real neutrality is comprehensive neutrality , narrow neutrality being compromised neutrality which is sometimes all that is possible . |
| 25 | For many elderly patients it will be decided that cardiac surgery is not clinically indicated . |
| 26 | It can be seen that considerable pressure is being put on the land by these many uses . |
| 27 | It can be seen that human sweat is actually hypotonic ie it contains a lower salt concentration than the plasma . |
| 28 | It seems worth while to remind the reader just how wide is the range of external informal information sources relevant to business activity ( it will be seen that this list is of US origin ) : |
| 29 | Table 29 summarises before and after information for completed schemes and it can be seen that this target is being achieved with a total estimated reduction of 52 accidents for local road schemes with a further reduction of 16 on trunk roads . |
| 30 | It can be seen that this vowel is most often represented in spelling by the letters ‘ i ’ and ‘ e ’ . |