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

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1 You are reminded that members are limited to two minutes in asking their questions .
2 IT HAS BEEN reported that planners are recommending approval of four separate planning applications by the Downpatrick and Ardglass Railway to extend its operations .
3 It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market .
4 It has often been said that heads are recruited largely on the basis of having been successful classroom teachers and are therefore appointed to a new task on the basis of their ability in a different job .
5 However , it has also been argued that women are discriminated against by the agents of the law , just as they are in other areas of life .
6 In particular , it has been argued that blacks are innately inferior to whites in terms of intelligence .
7 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 .
8 A mass meeting of council workers has been told that redundancies are unavoidable .
9 I have been told that synthetics are not warm enough on the one hand , or by others that they are too hot !
10 We are told that foxes are vermin and it is necessary to hunt them down .
11 It has been shown that goats are very susceptible to the Ostertagia spp. which predominate in sheep , O. circumcincta and O. trifurcata , and also to O. leptospicularis which establishes equally well in sheep and cattle .
12 Traditionally it has been thought that meteorites were formed at the same time as the solar planets , and the composition of them was used as a ‘ fossil guide ’ to the make-up of the planets .
13 In 1907 it had been noted that nickelodeons were opening up on every American street and it was not hard to account for their success .
14 But coach experts say it has n't been proved that belts are safer .
15 It has been found that birds are most easily sexually imprinted on their own species , fairly easily on closely related species , and only with difficulty on very different species .
16 It must be realised that fractals are hierarchies with the particular property that the successive levels are geometrically similar ( either exactly or on the average ) .
17 He commented : ‘ While one can observe that a breast is nothing but a modified sweat gland and , indeed , a secondary sexual characteristic , can it truly be heard that breasts are anything but intimately associated with sex or things sexual . ’
18 It will be recalled that associatives are adjectives of which the properties are specifically not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase in which they figure .
19 ‘ It does seem to me there must necessarily be some provision of this kind unless it is to be supposed that ministers are never to be allowed to leave the country at all . ’
20 It must not be forgotten that pedestrians are not only concerned with danger from traffic , but also with the threat posed by other people ; as Hanna puts it ‘ not all pedestrians are Good Guys ’ .
21 However , it must not be forgotten that EEIGs are not exempt from the EC competition rules on joint ventures .
22 On the other hand , there is a strong case to be made that Aquinas is not setting out to provide proofs of God 's existence .
23 In the end , it must be accepted that exports are produced through the co-operation , to a greater or lesser extent , of every enterprise in the economy .
24 It seems to be accepted that peers are not expected to contact the Lord Chancellor 's department before they speak extrajudicially in public .
25 Many take the view that there should be timetabling at the start of legislation to enable it to be seen that Members are dealing with all parts of legislation from the word go .
26 It hardly needs to be said that Tories are capitalists , and therefore to a woman ( Tory women playing a significant role in this ) subscribe to the view that the dominance of heterosexuality , notably the White Heterosexual Family , is to be preserved come hell or high water .
27 If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ?
28 It has to be said that fox-hunters are not the least quarrelsome of Her Majesty 's subjects , but they are as mewling , puking , bairns when compared with church persons .
29 In archaeology , I understand , it can now be said that computers are automatically considered for any project , however small .
30 Moreover , it could be argued that prisoners are more at risk of further offences than probationers because of , first , their commission of relatively more serious offences , and second , their more extensive and therefore more entrenched criminal careers .
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