Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [that] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It should be obvious from all that has been said that most small towns played a significant role in the economic life of the province , alongside the cities and major towns .
2 It has been argued that all public employment cases should be dealt with by the same forum which could resolve all the issues raised .
3 It has been argued that this visual route to word recognition is an attribute of the right hemisphere ( Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin , 1980 ) .
4 It has long been accepted that this exclusive jurisdiction prevents the courts of the land from dealing initially with issues falling to be decided by the visitor , and prevent an appeal from the visitor to those courts .
5 You 're told that that particular function is equal to that .
6 He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed .
7 Then , we are told that this constant presence of God guiding and helping his people has been completed .
8 It has also been shown that more sensitive judgements can be obtained from children when the power figure — so often represented by the adult — is removed ( Lloyd and Donaldson , 1976 ) .
9 Even with an all-night sitting , the Government and the Lib Dems are agreed that another full day on the bill today should not be wiped out .
10 Fortunately , it has been demonstrated that most non-polar polymers can be treated in this way and results agree well with direct measurements of .
11 It is only after the very last entity has been displayed that any quantitative evaluation can be performed .
12 Since the original description of a columnarised lower esophagus by Barrett in 1950 and Allison and Johnson in 1953 it has been recognised that this abnormal lining has a marked propensity to develop serious complications .
13 In reviewing some of them in this book , it has been found that several complicating features arise , beside the straightforward failings of human beings wishing to pigeon-hole phenomena or experiences into neat categories : ‘ strategies ’ or ‘ syndromes ’ with classical-sounding names .
14 Recently it has been found that those old people who either have pets of their own or who have access to animals are often actually healthier — and are certainly happier — than those who have no such contact .
15 It should be emphasized that all these complications are exceedingly rare in the Western world today .
16 On the negative side it should be recalled that many Belorussian nationalists were more pro-Western than specifically Belorussian in their emphasis , while many others became so identified with the Bolshevik Party that they shed earlier inclinations .
17 We now form v , unc as in ( 9 ) , ( 10 ) , and solve ( 11 ) for M. To sufficient accuracy , we find unc and then a new Yo is , with d chosen appropriately , unc and it may be checked that these two columns are , sufficiently nearly , orthogonal .
18 If a self-citation ( see 5.4 ) was , in the majority of cases , the first citation , it would be expected that these two values would be identical , because the first citation of the thesis would be in the author 's first related published paper .
19 Each of these subjects involves a highly intricate body of law , and it is not to be expected that any one man or even three or four men can master them all .
20 There has been a strong movement in favour of delegalization and privatization of family and personal matters ; but when moral panic breaks out law continues to be invoked as ‘ binding on everyone in society , whatever their beliefs … the embodiment of a common moral position ’ , despite the recognition that ‘ in our pluralistic society it is not to be expected that any one set of principles can be enunciated to be completely accepted by everyone . ’
21 This is dramatized in table 9.5 , which presents the results of setting each coefficient at plus or minus two standard errors in order to illustrate the potential range of estimates for expenditure needs for an authority ; it must be stressed that this simple procedure overstates the true variability , but we do not have available sufficient information to enable a better assessment .
22 Given that the average score for all A-level entrants was 5.4 , it can be seen that all non-standard entry groups , apart from those entering on the basis of 1–4 O-levels , performed at least as well or better than the average A-level entrants .
23 It can be seen that this very advantage now becomes disadvantageous after a time-zone transition when an adjustment of our body to new local time is required .
24 It can be seen that any contractual remedy that P2 has would be against P1 .
25 ‘ It must be said that many Christian men still have a hard time seeing women 's issues as their issues too , ’ said Bishop Edmond Browning , Anglican Primate in the USA .
26 ‘ It may safely be said that all good gardening consists in putting the right plant in the right place . ’
27 ( 60 ) It may be said that few middle-class couples dare marry without this admirable handbook .
28 It needs to be said that some handicapped readers ( brain-damaged or retarded ) can fully enjoy books : we have the lesson of Cushla as an inspiration here ( Butler , 1979 ) .
29 At least it can be said that these educational programmes may diminish the occasional experimental use ( which may be damaging in itself ) by those who do not have addictive disease .
30 It ought to be said that this particular extract poses more difficulties than the normal run of parish registers .
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