Example sentences of "that it has been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
| 2 | To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience . |
| 3 | If he can prove that it has been exercised for 20 years before the date of an action , it will be presumed that it has existed from ’ time immemorial ’ . |
| 4 | San Jose-based Maxoptix Corp , joint venture of Maxtor Corp and Kubota Corp , reports that the European Computer Manufacturers Association has formally endorsed the Maxoptix 1Gb zoned constant angular velocity magneto-optical disk format as ECMA Standard £183 and that it has been accepted by the International Standards Organisation for its Fast Track procedure as a Draft International Standard ; the spec is an extension of the 650Mb standard . |
| 5 | However section 19 permits the constable to seize anything on the premises if he has reasonable grounds for believing either that it has been obtained in consequence of the commission of an offence or that it is evidence in relation to an offence which he is investigating or any other offence . |
| 6 | But if there is a distinctive female verbal culture — and here we need to bear in mind that women themselves are not a homogeneous group — I would argue that it has been shaped by patriarchal conditions , including the restrictions placed on women 's lives and words . |
| 7 | My main criticism of intensive agricultural production , and of animal farming in particular , is that it has been locked for too long into a model-T-Ford-type philosophy , geared to produce a standard commodity as cheaply as possible . |
| 8 | As the Daily Express noted : ‘ Much as I disliked this film and its cheap exploitation of suffering and illness , I must concede that it has been made with the dead-on professionalism that is characteristic of the other ‘ Carry Ons . ’ ’ |
| 9 | The chronology of place-name developments was rejected by place-name scholars after seminal research by John McNeal Dodgson in 1966 and , to the extent that it has been replaced at all , place names are now seen to represent the hierarchical status of places in the landscape with no particular significance attached to when they are first recorded . |
| 10 | Financial support between relatives has one feature which is not shared by other types of support , namely that it has been regulated by the law . |
| 11 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 12 | Place the text block back onto the page and you will discover that it has been converted into a graphic which can be stretched and distorted as much as you want . |
| 13 | We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time . |
| 14 | Furthermore , from a banker 's standpoint a bill that indicates that the merchandise has been ‘ shipped ’ or placed ‘ on board ’ is preferable to one which merely states that it has been received for future shipment . |
| 15 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |
| 16 | The ideological success of Thatcherism is that it has been adopted by many young people for the values which direct their life style . |
| 17 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 18 | Only about one quarter claim that it has been used for INSET purposes in their schools and even fewer claim that its use has resulted in any changes . |
| 19 | I believe that in Britain an outstanding record will find its way into the system without much promotion , assuming that it has been distributed to producers . |
| 20 | For example , it is still commonplace in cartoons to show cavemen and dinosaurs together , despite the fact that it has been known for many years that dinosaurs were extinct long before the evolution of ‘ cavemen ’ . |
| 21 | Is not the Minister aware that it has been known for some time that four times as many women as men suffer the chronic pain that comes from the loss of movement in and the fracture of hip joints ? |
| 22 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
| 23 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 24 | Hence , the horse may spend the day avoiding mature people , and then find to its surprise that it has been caught by a child-foal that it had not perceived as possessing such ability . |
| 25 | This can be taken to mean that the work has already been printed for a limited number of people by private gift or circulation , but has not been published in the sense that it has been offered to the general public . |
| 26 | The village is almost completely destroyed , which is not surprising , due to the bombardments that it has been subjected to since 6th June by British artillery and naval guns . |
| 27 | During the three years that it has been accommodated at the Paris Exhibition Centre at Porte de Versailles — the original venue at CNIT having succumbed to the demolition expert 's hammer — the Salon Nautique has expanded by almost 20 per cent . |
| 28 | The new ruling , which Advanced Micro plans to appeal , means that it will have to write new microcode for the Am486 chip that it has been sampling to a few potential customers and had hoped to ship by the end of the year . |
| 29 | This also means that it has been introduced by humans to a lot of places it 's not native to — Indonesian islands , mainly — and it has widely hybridised with the introduced wild boar . |
| 30 | And that video can be obtained from Tavistock Church , in Tavistock Place it costs twelve pound fifty , with one pound fifty postage erm , but I think that it has been recommended to us and a number of the provinces have asked for copies to be made available and then maybe there are some churches within our provence that might like to have that video so that they can draw the attention of their churches to the work of the Council for World Mission . |