Example sentences of "it [verb] be [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Based on pioneer work by Fogel and Gray , the notion that symptomatic carbohydrate malabsorption is uncommon in patients with chronic pancreatitis has not been challenged until recently , when it has been noticed that patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency may malabsorb complex carbohydrate .
2 Already it has been demonstrated that groundwater abstraction is high relative to the theoretical renewable resource , and that much of the groundwater is contaminated with nitrate .
3 Instead it has been assumed that Eurotunnel 's fares will always be the same as those of the ferry services .
4 In the past , it has been assumed that nurses have already developed these skills when leaving school , or that they are acquired whilst providing patient care .
5 It has been assumed that goods and services were traded by exchange , although relative values would have been complicated and difficult to agree .
6 Similarly , it has been assumed that voters consider only alternatives in a small neighbourhood of the current position .
7 So far it has been assumed that levels of processing within the system operate serially , from the pattern recognition , to the lexical look-up , then onto syntactic and semantic analysis .
8 In particular it has been noted that agents have incentives to take actions which reveal their type early on in the play ; to self-screen .
9 It has been noted that CD must here be loosely recalling Dryden 's translation of the poem ( 1697 ) , because in that version Aeneas is made to say , after telling how he saw his father Priam slain , ‘ My hair with horror stood ’ , but there is no corresponding expression in the original Latin .
10 Also , it has been noted that men who carry another extra chromosome — in this case a Y chromosome , which is the one that determines maleness — are unusually tall and display aggressive antisocial behavior .
11 It has been seen that singularities inevitably occur in the solutions describing the interaction region of colliding plane waves .
12 But it has been seen that Picasso was also attracted to tribal sculpture because he admired its conceptual quality .
13 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
14 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
15 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
16 It has been confirmed that Steve Collins , an Irish-American middleweight from Brockton , Mass , will challenge Mike McCallum of Jamaica for the WBA title in Dublin on February 3 .
17 In particular , it has been confirmed that changes announced in the Budget to the Loan Guarantee Scheme will come into effect on 1 July 1993 .
18 It has been confirmed that Francis Lorentz , chairman and chief executive of state-owned Groupe Bull SA , will this week retire after 10 years in office : his successor will be Bernard Pache , a mining engineer who is currently managing director of Charbonnages de France .
19 As it happened , on 2 June the following was issued by MEHQ : ‘ It has been decided that Major Stirling , L Detachment S.A.S. Brigade , will not take part in active operations with his unit until further notice .
20 2.1 Following detailed discussion at the Council 's Advanced Courses Policy Sub-Committee , it has been decided that SCOTVEC should now proceed beyond the pilot programme to implementation of the new system : it was felt that the work to date on the pilot courses has provided enough experience to confirm the adoption of the Policy Paper 's principles as the basis of the new operational system .
21 Now it has been decided that men , with all their brow-mopping and weeping , are simply invading the seminal female experience , which should really be carried out in a darkened sweat lodge with only women as company .
22 It has been observed that pupils ' attitudes to computers are significantly influenced by use of a home-computer and experience of computer assisted learning ( CAL ) at school .
23 However , it has been stated that EGF does not stimulate the proliferation of gastric mucosal cells unless there is a breach of the mucosal lining .
24 It has been said that McDonald 's is involved with the destruction of rainforests of Central and South America in order to raise cattle for hamburgers .
25 It has been said that Ian McShane has a footballer 's haircut , but in fact what he now has is a football manager 's haircut .
26 It has been said that Lewis 's expressed distaste for the poetry of his contemporaries , such as MacNeice and Eliot , was based on jealousy .
27 It has been said that Philip Miller worked at the Garden before 1722 and that this referred to his promotion .
28 It has been said that Peter 's military and naval staff headquarters were almost Scottish institutions .
29 It has been said that Gouzenko 's defection was the start of the Cold War in that it convinced people that Russia was not benign and friendly but busily spying on its wartime allies by any means at its disposal .
30 It has been said that Vial was quite unsuited for the post of founding Professor .
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