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

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1 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 .
2 It has long been recognized that five factors control the nature of soil development : climate , parent material , topoy , organic activity and time .
3 The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development .
4 In a sense that has long been the case , since it has generally been supposed that turbulent flows are contained within a deterministic set of equations — the Navier-Stokes and continuity equations .
5 In a region that prides itself on its cuisine and that boasts a strong tourist industry , it might have been supposed that indigenous entrepreneurs would leap at such an opportunity .
6 It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families .
7 In that regard it has been reported that increased levels of substance P are observed in patients with advanced liver failure and that these correlate with the degree of hypotension .
8 It has been considered that therapeutic drugs such as sulphasalazine ( SASP ) , 5-aminosalicylic acid ( 5-ASA ) , and prednisolone ( PSL ) may reduce the accelerated cytotoxicity .
9 It has been claimed that prolonged remissions of Crohn 's disease can be achieved after enteral or parenteral nutrition , by identifying and excluding foods that exacerbate a patient 's symptoms .
10 It has been claimed that antinuclear antibodies of autoimmune chronic hepatitis reacts with an antigen which is homogeneously distributed within the nucleus and this gives a ‘ homogeneous ’ pattern ( ANA-H ) of positivity by immunofluorescence .
11 It has been claimed that modern-day pygmies of Malaysia and the Philippines or the Indians of Central America could have left similar prints .
12 This is also true in sugar maples , where it has been claimed that undamaged plants near the damaged ones have increased levels of phenolics and hydrolyzable and condensed tannins , suggesting an airborne cue from the damaged to the undamaged , which then become less attractive to herbivores .
13 However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances .
14 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 .
15 It has now been decided that both clubs will play on the Wednesday with 7.45 kick-offs .
16 Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves .
17 It has also been said that private companies can be enticed into investment in eastern Europe , as in the deal whereby BSN of France and Nestle of Switzerland bought a stake in Czech confectioner Chakoladnovy .
18 It has also been said that such activities can help to raise the general level of energy of members of the household , the depletion of which may often show itself as a succession of minor illnesses .
19 Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection .
20 It has been said that few revolutions have been so complete in the British countryside as the start and end of the railway age .
21 And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack .
22 It has been said that these rules will be applied less stringently to a commercial contract than to other types of document ( Henry Boot Construction v Central Lancashire New Town Development Corpn ( 1980 ) 15 BLR 8 ) but the drafter should bear them in mind and , if possible , avoid their application .
23 For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease .
24 Allegations have been made that successful convictions in a number of key murder trials have been dependent upon confession evidence which has been improperly obtained during police interrogation .
25 Although laser gain has been observed at a shorter wavelength — 18–2 nanometres by Geoff Pert 's group at the University of Hull — no claims have been made that those experiments produced coherent light ; the emission included radiation generated by other processes .
26 It has frequently been argued that temporary jobs , although possibly less desirable than permanent jobs , do provide a form of work for otherwise unemployed people and , furthermore , one that enhances their chances of subsequently obtaining permanent jobs ( Syrett , 1985 ) .
27 It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church .
28 Whilst it has been argued that such firms need financial and general business aid , if they are to fulfil their potential on a timely basis , little is known of their accounting/financial practices and needs .
29 It has been argued that such courses come somewhere around the foundation or specific stage in most people 's educational development , although the increasing proportions of mature students must make us wary of too linear a model .
30 Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) .
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