Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] be [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been warned that the public will not continue to hand over large sums to some of the young royals . |
| 2 | She has been told that members of the Lords are permitted to use the facilities provided by the Commons — the bar , the library , etc — and trot up and down the Commons corridors . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's been saying that since last November … |
| 4 | Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ . |
| 5 | He has been assured that the old EC custom of never embarrassing member governments just before an election will still apply . |
| 6 | A man stays in line because he has been taught that it is wrong not to . |
| 7 | And he has been warned that Labour will ‘ explode ’ if invalidity benefits are hit by Chancellor Norman Lamont 's autumn statement on Thursday . |
| 8 | The paramount mistake has been that the intelligence of the individual has been permitted to be clouded by childhood teaching to such an extent that he has been persuaded that the religious writings came from some other source which renders them inviolate . |
| 9 | ‘ He has been told that if there is another occasion he will attract an indefinite period of time out of the game . |
| 10 | Recently it broke down and he has been told that it could cost up to £400 to get him mobile again . |
| 11 | Since the work of S. S. Stevens in the 1930s and later , it has been recognized that , although the Weber-Fechner Law holds for many sorts of sensory experience , the exponent varies widely ; nevertheless , the principle of a quantitative correlation between external stimulus , neural activity and experienced sensation remains intact and now appears to be well-established . |
| 12 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On the other hand , it has been recognized that such concessions can , if applied fairly and without discrimination , aid the efficient administration of the tax system . |
| 15 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 16 | Additionally it has been recognized that the largest concentrations of first-class villas often clustered around the small towns in preference to major towns or cities . |
| 17 | In most countries , governments have accepted an increasing role in regulating health , safety , and quality standards because it has been recognized that this is a potentially important area of market failure . |
| 18 | It has been recognized that the European Directives are increasingly affecting what happens in the workplace . |
| 19 | Traditionally it has been believed that both are needed , as in the Sun for example where fifteen million degrees and a central density more than 100 times that of water are only just enough , or high pressures and temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees aimed for in the hot fusion programmes . |
| 20 | How the latter will be achieved remains to be seen , but it has been mooted that a surcharge should be levied on tropical timber , to be paid by the market , which could be used to undertake research into ways of achieving and ensuring tropical forest survival . |
| 21 | Without this we are breaking our governing rules and it has been indicated that any future occurrence will make the person concerned liable to disciplinary action . |
| 22 | Geoffrey Ross comments ‘ It has been noticed that many men wash their hair in water that is too hot ( which over-stimulates the sebaceous glands and so makes the scalp greasier than it should be ) and are rough-actioned with the towel when drying the hair . |
| 23 | It has been noticed that the six figures whose naked torsos are seen all show an extra horizontal line in the abdominal muscles , a feature which does not occur in the Niobid picture or elsewhere in the painter 's work . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It has been noticed that a few teachers have still to pay their Society membership for 1981 … |
| 26 | Although average stocking rates for beef cows would be around one ha/cow it has been demonstrated that 0.4 ha/cow ( 1 acre/ cow ) of productive grassland with moderate nitrogen fertiliser inputs will meet grazing requirements and produce a substantial part of the winter feed requirements . |
| 27 | Where training programmes are geared to the needs of older workers it has been demonstrated that they can successfully acquire new skills . |
| 28 | However , it has been demonstrated that the official criminal statistics give an unrepresentative and misleading picture of the social distribution of criminal behaviour . |
| 29 | Again , it has been demonstrated that even quite low levels of lead interfere with body processes . |
| 30 | 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 . |