Example sentences of "it [vb -s] be [verb] [conj] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , it has been asked whether there are political mechanisms , other than dictatorship , that , without restricting the nature of the preferences of voters and the choices that they can make , do not give rise to the non-existence problem . |
| 2 | Increasingly it has been recognized that there is a need to focus explicitly on the nature and form that child abuse or child protection interventions take in everyday practice , and in the process to try and identify models of good practice which can then be developed in the future . |
| 3 | The level of investment depends on business people 's expectations of the future level of demand , but it has been demonstrated that there is an inherent instability in the economy . |
| 4 | It has been demonstrated that there are various types of context that can influence the speed and ease with which words are identified ( and hence recognised ) , including lexical , syntactic and semantic contexts . |
| 5 | It has been assumed that there were two reasons why Mrs Thatcher decided to leave these shores . |
| 6 | It has been noted that there is no authority for police authorities under-taking this role . |
| 7 | These exceptional cases apart ( and it must be recalled that they are not really examples of the situation under discussion ) , it has been seen that there is no good ground for arguing that the doctor breaches his duty to his patient when respecting the patient 's wishes to be left to die . |
| 8 | It has been seen that there are a number of criminal offences relating to advertising . |
| 9 | There was some confusion in court as to whether a private prosecution can be withdrawn once it has been decided that there is a case to answer . |
| 10 | When it has been decided that there is a case to answer , the respondent will be notified within 21 days of the nature of the complaint and be given 28 days notice of the hearing . |
| 11 | In addition to such economic influences , it has been observed that there was also an ideological basis for continental European trade unions ' preference for broadly-based industrial bargaining . |
| 12 | It has been observed that there are failures in both these respects and that ‘ [ e ] mpirical analyses consistently show that fluctuations in the stock price can be only modestly related to economic realities ’ . |
| 13 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 14 | It has been said that there is a period of about 5½ years , but it is very vague indeed . |
| 15 | It has been announced that there are to be steam runs over the Central Wales line this year , the first one on the 16th May . |
| 16 | But it has been calculated that there is only a 4 per cent chance of dying if bitten by one of them . |
| 17 | It has been calculated that there has been an average of about 30 feet of deposition close inshore during the last 5000 years . |
| 18 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it has been calculated that there is one racial attack every 30 minutes and that the savagery of such attacks has increased ? |
| 19 | It has been questioned whether there is much resemblance between a student working in the Nuffield mode and an experimental scientist working in his laboratory , and probably many a teacher of science has wondered whether it logically follows that this objective requires the use of discovery learning . |
| 20 | In Belgium it has been argued that there is so much social and labour legislation that there is less room for collective bargaining . |
| 21 | They also provide some support for the thesis proposed by earlier studies of temporary workers ( particularly Meager , 1985 ) , where it has been argued that there is a strong association between growing organisations and users of temporary labour . |
| 22 | Further , it has been argued that there is no ‘ Asiatic mode of production ’ , so that the distinctive history of the Orient has to be explained in terms of influences other than a specific mode of production ; for instance , by the character and development of political or religious institutions . |
| 23 | There has been an assumption that young visually impaired children have little or no ability to use tactile maps to find their way around , and it has been argued that there is little to be gained from introducing visually impaired children to maps at an early age . |
| 24 | It has been argued that there was a cleavage between the Labour Ministers and the extra-parliamentary party on these issues . |
| 25 | A computer 's instruction set represents a language at its most basic level and , at this level , it is nearest to idea and , when used to write small programs , it has been argued that there is a merger of idea and expression in which case protection will be denied . |
| 26 | It has been argued that there is a chunk of data that must be retained about each record : Where was the document created ? |
| 27 | At last it has been recognised that there are many females within the club scene who have true potential . |
| 28 | It has been suggested that there is a danger that because the 1988 Act is silent on the subject of multicultural and anti-racist education these areas will be largely overlooked , to the detriment of race relations in this country . |
| 29 | It has been suggested that there was here a large wooden palace with a chapel and attendant out-buildings . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that there are three factors that determine population control : family ideals , both material and non-material ; knowledge of bodily functions , reproduction , health , hygiene , child-care , etc. ; and thirdly , access to contraception . |