Example sentences of "it has [adv] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the passages are of approximately the same length , it has not been felt necessary to give percentages in those parts of the table where numbers are small . |
| 2 | The old simplicity of purpose and quiet efficiency continues as always , without any notice of the passing centuries ; it has not been found necessary to install the telephone . |
| 3 | It has also been decided that continuity will be best served by developing a much closer working relationship between Birtwell and the respective Canada under 21 and under 19 coaches , Paul Horne and Don Burgess ( under 21s ) and David Docherty and Doug Sturrock ( under 19s ) . |
| 4 | It has also been made clear that where an unmet need is recorded which the department has a legal duty to provide , it could be used as the basis for a legal challenge , although it should still be recorded . |
| 5 | It has also been shown that cholera toxin and heat stable enterotoxin of Escherichia coli can induce fluid secretion in the rat colon . |
| 6 | ( ii ) defective floating charges It has also been thought unjust to allow an unsecured creditor to obtain priority to other creditors by obtaining a floating charge when he realises that liquidation is imminent . |
| 7 | It has also been reported that frusemide inhibits glucose transport ( Jung & Mookerjee , 1976 ) . |
| 8 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 9 | It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) . |
| 10 | However , it has neither been thought desirable nor feasible to require formal evaluations of alternative programmes , treatments or technologies at the local level . |
| 11 | It has even been suggested that three-quarters of what we know as adults we learned in childhood . |
| 12 | It has even been held that presence remains no more than evidence of encouragement even when it is accompanied by a secret intention to help if necessary one of the participants in an affray . |
| 13 | It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses . |
| 14 | In the ease studies so far considered it has already been made clear that the particular study itself is , as it were , the product of a set of concerns in politics . |
| 15 | Although the tail of this aircraft is still camouflaged. the rest of it has already been painted blue overall . |
| 16 | It is difficult to see why it has ever been supposed otherwise-that generality and number in themselves somehow fight with causation sensibly conceived . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly perhaps , it has only been repeated three or four times in 14 years ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It has now been devalued 15 per cent against Germany 's currency since Britain quit the ERM . |
| 20 | It has always been made clear that the Government 's reforms are not to be introduced at the expense of patient and client care . |
| 21 | It has always been noticed that information technology skills , of which we shall need more and more in the coming years , have tended to lag behind the demand for those skills . |
| 22 | ‘ It has always been done this way ’ is poor reason unless one knows why . |
| 23 | It has therefore been thought prudent to invoke the concept of dual porosity to explain the anomalous behaviour . |
| 24 | Thus it has actually been held that murder can be an ‘ accident . ’ |
| 25 | It has recently been suggested that King overstated the numbers of the really poor because he used too large a multiplier for family size , and that perhaps their proportion of the population was nearer to a seventh in most years . |