Example sentences of "have been [verb] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steel-Maitland also explained to Lord Robert Cecil that " it has been arranged that the National Conservative Union should send out leaflets produced by several of the ancillary organizations , such as the Tariff Reform League , the Anti-Socialist Union , the Primrose League , the London Municipal Society etc . " |
| 2 | Since the First World War , it has been recognised that the Prime Minister has the undisputed right to choose the date of a general election by asking the Crown for a dissolution of Parliament . |
| 3 | For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed . |
| 4 | It has been observed that the individual leaves of many trees , when damaged , increase their internal quantity of various tannins , thus making themselves unpalatable to further would-be nibblers — whether insects , cattle , deer or other species . |
| 5 | For the period 1757–1822 it has been calculated that the aggregate drain was approximately £250 million , while it has been pointed out that for the period from the 1850s to the First World War surpluses from the Indian economy were crucial in allowing Britain to balance its deficits with Europe and the USA ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 81 , 88 ) . |
| 6 | It has been calculated that the 1½-inch quills penetrate tissue in this way at a rate of an inch a day . |
| 7 | He has been assured that the old EC custom of never embarrassing member governments just before an election will still apply . |
| 8 | However , it has been demonstrated that the official criminal statistics give an unrepresentative and misleading picture of the social distribution of criminal behaviour . |
| 9 | It has been demonstrated that the colour-coated pottery industries extended both upstream into the Sibson/Stibbington areas and downstream towards Stanground , in addition to the Billing Brook and Normangate Field sectors already mentioned . |
| 10 | It has been acknowledged that the current housing situation plays a vital role in the recession . |
| 11 | In many European cities , and more recently in the USA , it has been accepted that the only efficient and cost effective way of moving people in and out of cities is by rail . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It has been argued that the American economy is dependent for its survival on the maintenance of high levels of military spending . |
| 22 | It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna . |
| 23 | It has been argued that the Conservative government has in its policy changes ( if not publicly voiced ) moved towards a more Keynesian stance . |
| 24 | Yet it has been argued that the British political system is ill-designed to allow the articulation of the interests of unpopular , minority groups . |
| 25 | It has been argued that the sexual division of labour between husband and wife may be interpreted as the best way of maximising the welfare of the working class family , and certainly the struggle for a family wage benefited working class families to the extent that it raised the wages of the male breadwinner . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It has been argued that the primitive features are innate , and the tendency to make binary oppositions is natural to human cognition . |
| 29 | It has been argued that the conventional ‘ male breadwinner ’ earning a ‘ family wage ’ is being superseded by a new convention in which both male and female partners spend the major part of their potential working lives in employment . |
| 30 | It has been said that the real question in the case is the degree of restriction that can be imposed upon a sovereign State in negotiating with another State in matters that affect the vital interests of third States . |