Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [that] [art] [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 | For instance , some sites in Roman Britain have a much greater proportion of third-than of fourth-century coins compared to other sites , and it has been observed that the former tend to be the prestigious settlements of old Roman veteran colonies or tribal capitals , whereas the latter are more likely to be smaller rural sites such as farms , forts or villages . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At Hurstmonceux , it has been calculated that every one of the forty inmates and servants , man , women and child , consumed eight gallons of beer each every week . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It has been calculated that the 1½-inch quills penetrate tissue in this way at a rate of an inch a day . |
| 9 | He has been assured that the old EC custom of never embarrassing member governments just before an election will still apply . |
| 10 | It has been noticed that a few teachers have still to pay their Society membership for 1981 … |
| 11 | It has been noticed that the six figures whose naked torsos are seen all show an extra horizontal line in the abdominal muscles , a feature which does not occur in the Niobid picture or elsewhere in the painter 's work . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , it has been demonstrated that the official criminal statistics give an unrepresentative and misleading picture of the social distribution of criminal behaviour . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It has been acknowledged that the current housing situation plays a vital role in the recession . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It has been argued that a better measure of familial aggregation is the ratio of prevalence among relatives to that in the general population , but this ratio alone is also of limited value since , for a given heritability , it varies inversely with population prevalence . |
| 18 | It has been argued that a new spatial division of labour has been created which has changed the relative attractiveness of locations ( Massey and Meegan 1982 , Massey 1984 ) . |
| 19 | It has been argued that a special , hybrid type of right should be introduced for computer programs ; something between a patent and copyright . |
| 20 | It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It has been argued that the higher professionals primarily serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful . |
| 26 | It has been argued that the best predictor of behaviour is not the possession of knowledge per se but behavioural intentions which are themselves predicted by attitudes and the subjective norm for the acceptability of the behaviour in question . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |