Example sentences of "it have been [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It has been pointed out above that historically the law of rape was exclusively concerned with the protection of virginity .
2 It has been pointed out to us that our report might have been understood to reflect on Mr Hancock , who was chairman of Aldershot until June 1991 .
3 It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts .
4 However , it has been pointed out by Dr. B. Leadbeater , that great care must be taken before these formulae are used to determine the efficiency of dilution for abatement of odour nuisance , for in order to achieve concentrations below the threshold detection levels some odorants would need diluting by a factor in order of 6,000 , so unless very high chimneys are contemplated this method only provides a limited answer .
5 It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature :
6 It has been pointed out by feminists that the tradition which depends upon this demarcation line fails to give a satisfactory account of conflicts that arise in the private sphere .
7 It has been pointed out by Ochshorn that Jesus ' message is evidently addressed basically to men .
8 It has been pointed out by Dr Baugh that if rising levels of poor-relief expenditure are expressed in per capita terms and related to wheat prices , the real level of poor-relief spending was fairly constant from the early 1790s to 1814 .
9 Poor cutlery will have tiny burrs inside the fork prongs where it has been stamped out of the sheet of metal .
10 Your article of April 10th about the CS First Boston Group states that it has been kept out of the league of top-flight American investment banks .
11 It has been done before in similar circumstances .
12 AROUND £58 million was wiped off the personal fortunes of Body Shop founders Anita and Gordon Roddick yesterday , when shares in the toiletries chain slumped £1.12 to £1.54 , following a shock warning from the company that it has been hit hard by the slump .
13 This control is justified as part of the general responsibility of central government for national economic management , and since 1990 it has been achieved mainly by controlling the money used to finance capital expenditure .
14 In the first place , it will be transferred only if it has been given previously to a candidate of higher preference now elected with a surplus or eliminated .
15 A node that is in the A2 ( secondary activation ) state ( either because its stimulus has only recently been presented or because it has been activated internally by means of an excitatory associative link ) will not be able to move into Al .
16 It has been built up since 1975 by combining Fiat 's original truck division in Italy with foreign acquisitions : Unic in France , Magirus in Germany , Pegaso in Spain and Iveco Ford in the UK ( in which Fiat has a 48% stake , but controls operations ) .
17 It has been built up by observation and/or training , and stored .
18 It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building ‘ from floor to ceiling ’ in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped .
19 This means it has been grown slowly to full maturity , fattened on food containing no animal protein and at least 70 per cent cereal , and reared without the use of any antibiotics or growth-promoting additives .
20 Although it has been grown here for more than a century , the low-growing variety A. dioicus Kneiffii is , surprisingly , less well known .
21 The vision of the completed composition will come into his mind and remain there , often unchanged , until it has been transferred directly onto the canvas by the artist 's brush .
22 What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified .
23 This may sound utopian , but it has been borne out by the experience of existing telecottages .
24 erm package and it has been developed now to quite , quite a high level of sophistication
25 It has been turned over to SunSoft 's Distributed Object Council , a group of unidentified object developers and major end users who meet frequently with the company to discuss product specifications and plans , for feedback .
26 It has been turned over to SunSoft 's Distributed Object Council , a group of unidentified object developers and major end users who meet frequently with the company to discuss product specifications and plans , for feedback .
27 Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers .
28 It has been blown out of the water by this stark warning , ’ he said .
29 It has been blown out of the water by this stark warning , ’ said Mr Fallon .
30 He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach .
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