Example sentences of "[been] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract . |
| 32 | It has also been argued that green belts have been used as instruments of preservation rather than conservation , and that insufficient attention has been devoted to positive planning , and to provision for recreational use . |
| 33 | It has been argued that double-hulled vessels can be more hazardous in high-speed collisions than single-hulled vessels . |
| 34 | It has been argued that these policies were adopted at Moscow 's instigation . |
| 35 | Technical difficulties aside , it has been argued that these provisions will not make any appreciable difference to the welfare of victims for , except in the most notorious of cases , most authors receive very small amounts indeed from publication . |
| 36 | It has been argued that these divisions within the working class are unreconcilable and prevent it acting as a strong , united , radical force . |
| 37 | It has been seen that academic institutions have to abide by procedural fairness when applying disciplinary measures , as do trade unions , and it has now been held that prison Visitors and governors exercising their disciplinary functions are subject to certiorari for breach of natural justice . |
| 38 | If there is a shortfall of Catholic school provision in an area , it has never been accepted that Catholic pupils should have to go to non-Catholic schools . |
| 39 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
| 40 | During a 17-month-long crackdown on burglary across London detectives have been told that many thieves use the drivers for shifting hi-fis , televisions and videos . |
| 41 | An inquest has been told that two tyres on one of the cars involved were seriously under-inflated . |
| 42 | The group have been told that European funds are available for the next stage , which will be a further and more detailed study . |
| 43 | ‘ What is even more disturbing , ’ the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress said in a letter to Dr Banda dated 3 April , ‘ we have been told that several members of the Malawi Congress Party have called for the bishops ' death by an orchestrated mob . ’ |
| 44 | A court has been told that three men accused of killing twin sisters in a barn fire shouted to them to get out before the men themselves ran away . |
| 45 | Gazza reacted angrily as he explained : ‘ I 've just been told that English journalists are saying that I threw my bib down because Zoff said I was out of the side . |
| 46 | For example , it has recently been agreed that Incorporated Engineers will be listed in the Implementing Regulations ; SCOTVEC HNCs and HNDs are recognised as meeting the educational requirements for registration as Incorporated Engineer . |
| 47 | The inference has been drawn that these tenures , often ( though not necessarily ) on land newly cleared from forest or heath , were offered by landlords as an inducement to tenants to extend their operations , whether through crop-growing or animal husbandry . |
| 48 | Recently it has been shown that normal volunteers efficiently absorb an oral load of 100 g of rice starch with minimal generation of breath H 2 . |
| 49 | It has been shown that such listings have a substantial effect on the way in which previous research is used . |
| 50 | It has been shown that many additives are responsible for behavioural problems among young people , such as irritability , clumsiness , excitability and aggressiveness . |
| 51 | It has been shown that anxious individuals rend to interpret ambiguous stimuli in line with a threatening interpretation if one is available . |
| 52 | Although traditionally sprinkler systems have been resisted in libraries , it has been shown that modern systems , which open and close individual sprinkler heads in response to temperature rise and fall , would prevent fires developing to the point at which structural collapse would occur , and would restrict water damage to a relatively small area of stack . |
| 53 | It has been shown that different habitats have highly characteristic patterns of species diversity ( Fleming , 1973 ; Krebs , 1978 ; Andrews , Lord & Evans , 1979 ; Avery , 1982 ) . |
| 54 | In the previous Section it has been shown that these harmonics can contribute to the mechanical output power , because harmonics of current lead to harmonics of motional voltage — The approach adopted here is to introduce a " torque correction factor " which allows for the harmonic contribution to the pull-out torque . |
| 55 | Today , herbivory in the crowns of mature trees in lowland rain forest in geographically distinct regions in the New and Old Worlds leads to 13.8–14.6% tissue loss in the leafy branches of trees , but consistently less in epiphytes , while in Ghana it has been shown that those plants with a rapid flush of leaves are consistently less severely attacked than those with a slower leaf production . |
| 56 | It has been shown that some schools offer a rehash or revision programme based on pre-registration modules , while others prepare courses in line with the very latest developments available . |
| 57 | It has been shown that particular shapes tend to be correlated , in the case of cremation pottery , with particular grave-goods , the sex of the individual which the vessels contain and the decoration on the vessel ( Richards 1982 ) . |
| 58 | ‘ The saddest thing is that we 've been persuaded that true travellers know how to haggle . |
| 59 | It has already been noted that obstructive attitudes can prevent progress in therapy , and that such attitudes can usually be identified by carefully analysing the patient 's attempts to achieve goals and the reason for failure . |
| 60 | Some children are able to discriminate in this way between people they know and people they do not ; while it has been noted that institutional children tend to show less anxiety at a strange face since there is no regular " caretaker " . |