Example sentences of "it have [be] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As it has been assumed that equal amounts of lactulose or other carbohydrate malabsorption will produce equal changes in breath H 2 excretion , rice starch malabsorption has been calculated as g malabsorbed carbohydrate according to the formula :
2 Until now it has been assumed that social changes are determined by events which have the same status in the sense that they may all be conditions and consequences of each other .
3 Some children are able to discriminate in this way between people they know and people they do not ; while it has been noted that institutional children tend to show less anxiety at a strange face since there is no regular " caretaker " .
4 It has been seen that French wartime planners believed that France could gain from European economic co-operation .
5 It has been seen that academic institutions have to abide by procedural fairness when applying disciplinary measures , as do trade unions , and it has now been held that prison Visitors and governors exercising their disciplinary functions are subject to certiorari for breach of natural justice .
6 Therefore it has been seen as right that they should be kept under male control .
7 Some of it has been seen as justifiable because it seeks to ensure competition and prevent monopoly .
8 Few would deny that there are elements of truth in this explanation , but it has been criticized as incomplete because of its bias towards élites and its failure to explain why nationalist symbols had such wide appeal .
9 It has been observed that Christian fortresses in Syria on numerous occasions failed to act as any sort of check on the movement of Muslim armies .
10 Once it has been acknowledged that linguistic differentiation is a particularly salient manifestation of the tendency of communities to mark out gender distinctions by a variety of means , it is difficult , given the general orientation of current sociolinguistics , to progress further in finding a convincing explanation of linguistic sex-marking .
11 It has been developed and refined over the last four years by engineers at the company 's parent company , General Motors .
12 More generally , it has been contended that international comparisons can be a trap :
13 And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack .
14 It has been said that old age comes as a surprise : I was then eighty but had yet to realise it .
15 It has been presented as remote and ‘ surgical ’ — a technological war of such precision that only military targets are hit and all we experience is a tv screen demonstrating the spectacular nature of the equipment , and the helplessness of Third World enemies .
16 It has been calculated that Allied 's breakup value is about 1,000p a share .
17 It has been revised and updated and now includes a simple summary of legislation relating to deer in Britain , and a county-by-county guide to distribution .
18 The reason for distinguishing between murder and manslaughter must be to identify and to label the most heinous killings as murder , and it has been questioned whether English law succeeds in this .
19 The last wolf was shot in west Germany as far back as 1846 and since then it has been registered as extinct .
20 To the extent that a scientific speciality or discipline is bound together by the rules of an existing ‘ paradigm ’ defining the rules for ‘ puzzle-solving ’ with an existing ‘ normal science ’ , it has been argued that major scientific change often comes from outside the existing specialist group — not untypically through the ‘ migration ’ into the group of innovative outsiders .
21 It has been argued that continuous agriculture could be maintained if a closed nutrient cycle could be achieved , the canopy not perforated so that leaching would be prevented and the forest floor would not deteriorate , and if nutrients were added to equal those exported as crops and the diversity of species maintained .
22 It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church .
23 However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract .
24 It has been argued that judicial review should never be refused because of the existence of an alternative remedy if the applicant can establish a ground for judicial review .
25 It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth .
26 It has been argued that romantic love is a relatively modern phenomenon , reserved in earlier times for the delight of troubadours and the illicit pleasures of the rich .
27 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 .
28 It has been argued that high house prices have prevented workers from moving to new jobs in the South East , leading to recruitment difficulties and increased costs for employers in the region .
29 It has been argued that British membership of the EEC imposes a legal not simply a political limitation on Parliament .
30 Throughout this paper it has been argued that separating special education policy from mainstream education policy creates an artificial division between special and mainstream education .
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