Example sentences of "be [verb] that [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has been reported that gastric infusion of bile salts in rats delays gastric emptying and inhibits small bowel transit time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It has been claimed that modern-day pygmies of Malaysia and the Philippines or the Indians of Central America could have left similar prints . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 8 | Allegations have been made that successful convictions in a number of key murder trials have been dependent upon confession evidence which has been improperly obtained during police interrogation . |
| 9 | It has been argued that British membership of the EEC imposes a legal not simply a political limitation on Parliament . |
| 10 | It has been argued that corporate efficiency in privatised industries has improved , not just by an exposure to market forces and an acceptance of the profit motive , but by the extra freedom given to managers . |
| 11 | It has been shown that oral administration of lipid mixtures containing surface-active phospholipids provides significant protection to the gastric mucosa against a variety of ulcerogenic agents , including acid . |
| 12 | As Friends of the Earth comment : ‘ There are alternatives available , and it 's been shown that heavy treatment with chemicals is unnecessary . |
| 13 | It has recently been shown that daily administration of high doses of fenbendazole to the bitch from three weeks pre-partum to three weeks post-partum has largely eliminated transmammary and prenatal infection of the pups , although residual infection in the brain may persist . |
| 14 | It has been recognised that personal effectiveness in all aspects of life , including work , requires the development of certain broad transferable skills . |
| 15 | For some time , it had been recognised that significant numbers of promising young players were being lost to the game by a lack of a smooth transition from school to senior club . |
| 16 | The discussion about the service policeman 's job prospects might have been more sanguine had it been known that civil servants in Whitehall were reading a provocative paper on full employment policy . |
| 17 | Since 1954 it has been known that focal lesions of the inferotemporal cortex produce a severe and abiding impairment in visual discrimination performance in monkeys ( see Dean 1982 ) . |
| 18 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 19 | It has been found that regular use of some 2 in 1 's can cause ingredients to build up on the hair shaft which may affect the results of a perm or colour . |
| 20 | More recently , however , it has been found that bright light at other times of the day — in the evening , which also mimics the light in summer-time , and at noon , which does not lengthen daylight hours — has an effect also . |
| 21 | It has been proposed that neuronal specificity of the SCG10 gene is achieved through selective repression in non-neuronal tissues ( 36 ) , making this an alternative mechanism for gene activation in the nervous system . |
| 22 | For example , if society believes workers should be democratically represented on firms ' boards of directors , it also should be recognized that additional costs of democracy are to be borne by someone : shareholders who get lower profits , workers who get lower wages , customers who pay higher prices , or taxpayers . |
| 23 | But , it will be objected , these theorists actually regard the status of moral patients as akin to that of slaves , and we would expect also to be reminded that contemporary opinion in the civilised world , despite pockets of resistance , is still largely in agreement with this view . |
| 24 | Visitors will at least be reminded that Venetian art in this period was not an entirely closed world , and that Giorgione 's career is far from being fully understood , but it is difficult to escape the conclusion that now is not the moment , and an exhibition of this kind is not the ideal place to explore such art-historical problems . |
| 25 | At a time when potential reformers included senior officials and members of the royal family , it was to be expected that educated people outside the government would emerge from the bunker to which they had been relegated in 1848 . |
| 26 | It might be expected that subsequent cohorts of elderly people will be more likely to have children , and be survived by them , but other social and economic trends may reduce their ability and willingness to assume caring responsibilities for aged parents . |
| 27 | It should be stressed that similar conclusions to those of figure 7.4 hold when comparisons are made within a particular social class to control for the fact that higher social classes are both more likely to marry late and to be owner-occupiers . |
| 28 | However , it must be stressed that illegal access to the LIFESPAN work space is only ever possible as a result of a failure in the general security procedures on the computer concerned . |
| 29 | However , it should be stressed that different types of organizations will require differing types of budgets to enable them to function effectively . |
| 30 | It could , of course , be objected that geographical comparisons of this sort are not entirely compelling because of important differences between the criminal justice systems , not to mention levels of recorded crime , in the countries concerned . |