Example sentences of "be [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has long been recognized that five factors control the nature of soil development : climate , parent material , topoy , organic activity and time . |
| 2 | They are demanding that richer countries cut back their carbon emissions to compensate . |
| 3 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 4 | Geoffrey Ross comments ‘ It has been noticed that many men wash their hair in water that is too hot ( which over-stimulates the sebaceous glands and so makes the scalp greasier than it should be ) and are rough-actioned with the towel when drying the hair . |
| 5 | It has been said that few revolutions have been so complete in the British countryside as the start and end of the railway age . |
| 6 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Whilst it has been argued that such firms need financial and general business aid , if they are to fulfil their potential on a timely basis , little is known of their accounting/financial practices and needs . |
| 9 | It has been argued that such courses come somewhere around the foundation or specific stage in most people 's educational development , although the increasing proportions of mature students must make us wary of too linear a model . |
| 10 | Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It has also been argued that green belts have been used as instruments of preservation rather than conservation , and that insufficient attention has been devoted to positive planning , and to provision for recreational use . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The more I drink , the more I am persuaded that young wines offer most pleasure ; a constantly renewable resource , popping up fresh every year . |
| 15 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
| 16 | During a 17-month-long crackdown on burglary across London detectives have been told that many thieves use the drivers for shifting hi-fis , televisions and videos . |
| 17 | It has been shown that such listings have a substantial effect on the way in which previous research is used . |
| 18 | It has been shown that anxious individuals rend to interpret ambiguous stimuli in line with a threatening interpretation if one is available . |
| 19 | It has been shown that different habitats have highly characteristic patterns of species diversity ( Fleming , 1973 ; Krebs , 1978 ; Andrews , Lord & Evans , 1979 ; Avery , 1982 ) . |
| 20 | It has been shown that some schools offer a rehash or revision programme based on pre-registration modules , while others prepare courses in line with the very latest developments available . |
| 21 | It has been shown that particular shapes tend to be correlated , in the case of cremation pottery , with particular grave-goods , the sex of the individual which the vessels contain and the decoration on the vessel ( Richards 1982 ) . |
| 22 | But irrespective of how they construe the common sense which is the policeman or woman 's working knowledge , seniors are agreed that new recruits need experience of life to enable them to deal with the range of situations and people they encounter in their work . |
| 23 | Environmentalists are agreed that more roads encourage more cars . |
| 24 | ‘ The saddest thing is that we 've been persuaded that true travellers know how to haggle . |
| 25 | 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 " . |
| 26 | It has already been noted that most models have a view of politicians as people who follow overly narrow self-interested behaviour to the detriment of interests of the electorate and presumably their own long-run reputations . |
| 27 | For some time in social policy it has been appreciated that local administrations do not simply act as transmitters of national legislation and guidance . |
| 28 | In differentiating various kinds of policies , and in interpreting their implications for ministerial power , it must be recognized that some policies have implications for more than one department . |
| 29 | Furthermore , it must be emphasized that legal concepts do not necessarily have the same meaning in Community law and in the law of the various Member States . |
| 30 | It should be emphasized that private markets have remained the main source of financing for countries with balance of payments problems . |