Example sentences of "be [vb pp] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It has been said that the Irish Sea and even the Bristol Channel ( just outside my window as I write ) are older than the Atlantic . |
| 32 | It has often been said that the decisive development since Darwin was a new synthesis , in the 1920s and 1930s , of Mendel on heredity and Darwin on selection . |
| 33 | It has often been said that the non-neurotic person is one whose repressive mechanisms work well . |
| 34 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 35 | It has been said that the Conservative Party 's deliberately tough stand on immigration has removed the raison d'être of the extreme right , even if the former 's stance is based on exclusionism rather than on the expulsionism of the latter . |
| 36 | There is some comment has been made that a new settlement to the South or the South West of York would in some way undermine the urban regeneration erm of Leeds City Council , now I find this a surprising comment given that though people who are making that comment are also at the same time advocating much increased development allocations to , for example , Harrogate district , the main centre for which is erm , nearer than most conceivable new settlement locations to the South and South West of York . |
| 37 | Criticisms have been made that the present system excludes private shareholders . |
| 38 | It has just been argued that a thorough analysis of the market attractiveness and competitive strengths of an SBU ( possibly based upon a Porter analysis ) , should provide more insight into the future covariability of the SBU and total market returns . |
| 39 | It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming . |
| 40 | Despite the inherent difficulties in comparative work it has been argued that an international perspective has always been implicit to some extent in the study of industrial relations . |
| 41 | It has been argued that an appropriate definition of central in this context would be information related to risks and potential risks in a situation . |
| 42 | It has been argued that the spiritual prestige of the papacy was tarnished by its use of temporal strength to achieve its ends , but that is in many ways a modern concept . |
| 43 | It has also been argued that the small mouths of the giants simply could not have downed enough food to support a warm-blooded metabolism , particularly plant food that needs a lot of processing before it becomes available as energy . |
| 44 | It has thus been argued that the general structure of all colliding plane wave solutions is as illustrated in Figure 8.6 with with the possible exception that , for some solutions , the curvature singularity in region IV is replaced by a Cauchy horizon . |
| 45 | It has been argued that the communist utopia is not a scientific prediction but merely a projection of the ‘ wish-images ’ of those who adopt a Marxist position . |
| 46 | It has been argued that the existing investment in interactive video may act as a barrier to the use of other future multimedia platforms in training . |
| 47 | It has also been argued that the legal system enables the powerful to get away with exploiting other people without actually breaking the law . |
| 48 | Clearly , gifts of precious metal were something in which Cnut delighted , and it has recently been argued that the magnificently-illustrated gospel books which have survived from this period , and others which have not , were commissioned by Cnut and Emma for donation to favoured individuals and churches . |
| 49 | It has been argued that the ultimate object of most conventions is that the rules of government should accord with the wishes of the majority . |
| 50 | It has been argued that the present procedure for the passage of legislation does not provide effective scrutiny , that Parliament simply legitimises that which the Government has decreed . |
| 51 | It has been argued that the present law pays too great a regard to the need to preserve public order and does too little to facilitate peaceful protest , e.g. wide police powers to impose conditions to preserve the peace ; the restrictions on spontaneous demonstrations . |
| 52 | It has been argued that the present day focus of international law is upon disputes relating to parties ' interests in satisfying needs , and values , rather than upon formalistic attention to rights . |
| 53 | It has been argued that the limited success of children in referential communication tasks is due to a large extent to the tasks being extracted from a meaningful framework . |
| 54 | But it has also been argued that the proprietary view extends , in theory and in practice , to public limited companies . |
| 55 | In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey . |
| 56 | It has been argued that the mass production element of Fordism was never as strongly developed in the UK as in , for instance , the United States . |
| 57 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 58 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 59 | It has been argued that the American economy is dependent for its survival on the maintenance of high levels of military spending . |
| 60 | It has been argued that the dilute nature of the nectar in such flowers deters some bee robbers that may be unable to concentrate it : the birds would prefer concentrated sugars . |