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

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1 It has been recognised that agents may revise their behaviour when the nature of policy is changed .
2 In this respect it has been recognised that Departments will have specific concerns relevant to the activities of particular groups of workers who provide services .
3 More recently it has been recognised that students will benefit more from the provision of good quality language support than from long periods spent learning English in ESL courses and this has led to a shift in resources towards the mainstream classroom .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The intriguing suggestion has been made that dolphins , if they chose to use it , have a potentially effortless means of communicating " mental pictures " to one another .
7 It 's only when the peak has been conquered that thoughts turn to the delicious things that used to be in the foil-covered dishes , and the question of how best to prepare the spam .
8 The other approach has been to argue that rats have difficulty with passive avoidance because they can not remember recent events .
9 It has been argued that forms of control over state enterprises are inherently problematic .
10 In particular , it has been argued that blacks are innately inferior to whites in terms of intelligence .
11 During periods of uncertainty ( for example , after a shock rise in oil prices ) it has been argued that firms will reduce the value they place on expected future returns on investment projects .
12 It has been argued that factors in medical organisation , such as the use of deputies , may be more important than variations in patient demand in shaping the number of night visits .
13 By contrast it has been argued that lawyers ' characteristic and specific practice is translation into a discourse which they both use and create .
14 Of non-flowering plants , it has been argued that ferns have a lower associated insect fauna , though it has long been known that bracken has a large number of associated arthropods .
15 Elsewhere it has been argued that ecosystems are ordered arrangements of matter in which energy inputs carry out work ( Stoddart , 1965 ) and that if the energy input is removed the structure will break down until the components are randomly arranged which with maximum entropy is the most probable state .
16 It has been said that Englishmen have a paranoid suspicion of Oriental cunning , but it was becoming more apparent with every passing day that Javed Miandad and his team were just as concerned about the probity of their hosts .
17 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 .
18 It has been assumed that goods and services were traded by exchange , although relative values would have been complicated and difficult to agree .
19 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 .
20 Similarly , it has been assumed that voters consider only alternatives in a small neighbourhood of the current position .
21 If it has been conceded that students should not pay the tax , the Government should accept the logic and exempt students altogether .
22 With cries of joy , it has been announced that women need not depend upon men for companionship and understanding ; women 's groups have become a commonplace , and support and friendship between women re-evaluated .
23 In France the government is backing a FFr 1.4 billion five year investment programme into photovoltaic technology and the view has been expressed that photovoltaics could become a $10 billion a year industry worldwide by the end of the century .
24 It has been seen that singularities inevitably occur in the solutions describing the interaction region of colliding plane waves .
25 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 .
26 The basic concern has been to demonstrate that regimes , such as that in Iraq , can no longer threaten this new dispensation of global power .
27 Kiwis use their noses to find buried food , and recently it has been discovered that magpies and other birds do as well .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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