Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did feel concerned at first , but we have since been reassured that the chances of Andrew catching TB are extremely remote , ’ said Mr Morrison . |
| 2 | ‘ It has since been established that the horse was doped . |
| 3 | It had hitherto been thought that the effects of such emissions would be more localized . |
| 4 | It had apparently been hoped that the numbers of long-term patients suffering from dementia would diminish with the rundown of the asylums . |
| 5 | It had long been argued that the maintenance of a low level of unemployment should be the guiding principle of a government 's economic policy . |
| 6 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | In that context it had long been accepted that the settlement of individual claims might be incorporated into an overall package . |
| 8 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 9 | It has long been recognised that the human factor is just as significant an influence on rates of erosion as physical features , as has been highlighted by a study of potential versus actual erosion in Zimbabwe by Whitlow ( 1988 ) . |
| 10 | It has long been recognised that the Commission has required its own independent powers to review and , if necessary , prohibit those takeovers which may impede or distort competition in the single market . |
| 11 | It has long been recognised that the ratio of doctors to population in the United Kingdom , at 1 to 562 , is the second lowest in western Europe , where the average is 1 to 338 . |
| 12 | It has , however , long been recognised that the court can exercise jurisdiction in personam against an individual present in England or capable of being made a party to English proceedings in cases in which Equity so requires , even where the subject matter is foreign immovable property . |
| 13 | It has long been recognised that the proper and effective investigation of child abuse requires co-operation between those agencies with child care responsibilities . |
| 14 | Most theories of rhythm have concentrated on metre and metricality , and while it has long been recognised that the rhythms of the spoken language give variety to what occurs within a given metre , the functioning of these rhythms in poetry has never been adequately investigated . |
| 15 | Now , it has long been understood that the public utterances of the sovereign to the people of a realm overseas , be it Australia or Grenada , are covered by the advice of her ministers in that realm . |
| 16 | It has long been acknowledged that the Chardonnay in le Mesnil-sur-Oger is a special clone of exceptional quality and character . |
| 17 | IT has long been recognized that the electrical conductivity of the lower continental crust is anomalously high . |
| 18 | It has also long been recognized that the same distinction occurs in attributive adjectives ( see , for instance , Jespersen , 1924 ) . |
| 19 | It has long been assumed that the origins of many adult disorders lie somewhere in childhood or earlier events . |
| 20 | It has long been held that the writs of mandamus and prohibition will go either to compel the visitor to act if he refused to deal with a matter within his jurisdiction or to prohibit him from dealing with a matter that lies without his jurisdiction . |
| 21 | It has long been held that the writs of mandanus and prohibition will go … |
| 22 | It has long been known that the chain molecules of many natural and artificial polymers are arranged in a way which is at least partially crystalline . |
| 23 | It has long been known that the activity of these geothermal systems is intermittent , and this is generally attributed to the effect of magmatic intrusions or fault motions . |
| 24 | It 's long been known that the British yellow meadow ant suffers from the attention of a parasitic mite . |
| 25 | It has long been speculated that the sign of the anchor was the mark Martin inherited from his father . |
| 26 | The 1986 Programme , similarly , contained no reference to the historic goal of the withering away of the state ( it had long been predicted that the only thing that would wither away was the idea that the state should wither away ) ; its main emphasis was upon practical and short-term objectives , and it struck a disciplinarian rather than utopian note in its references to careerism , nepotism and profiteering . |
| 27 | We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months . |
| 28 | The head office golf society has a big season lined up this year , so are hoping that the wet weather on March 31 at Langley Park will not set a precedent for its forthcoming dates . |
| 29 | ‘ In the judgment of this court , when a witness is shown to have made previous statements inconsistent with the evidence given by that witness at the trial , the jury should not merely be directed that the evidence given at the trial should be regarded as unreliable ; they should also be directed that the previous statements , whether sworn or unsworn , do not constitute evidence upon which they can act . |
| 30 | It could only be concluded that the cause of the intense eye irritation was in some way related to vehicle exhaust emissions . |