Example sentences of "[verb] [be] suggested [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Great Dunmow , for instance , it has been suggested that such strips were up to c. 100 m ( 327 ft ) deep , while the Fosse Way southwest of Ilchester was lined by two successive rows of enclosures some 50 by 20 m ( 165 by 66 ft ) in size . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that such terranes are equivalent to oceanic plateaus , which are to be found in the present-day ocean basins and which often rise several kilometres above the adjacent ocean floor ( Fig. 3.32 ) . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that such sediments are characteristic of aseismic continental shelves as they move away from a mid-oceanic ridge . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and can not be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that this norm has altered and that the courts will recognise as valid only legislation which has been passed by both houses and given the royal assent , has not been repealed expressly or by implication and which accords with our obligations under community law . |
| 6 | The sense of joy and spiritual opportunity at the heart of this interpretation of human history and the life of faith is vibrantly embodied in a fifteenth-century carol : It has been suggested that this carol is guilty of reducing the mystery of God to human terms and redemption itself to " little more than a lark " . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that this stone was brought from the Cultoon circle but there is no evidence that it was ever there and no good reason has been given for making such a move . |
| 8 | And just to cap all this mythological irrelevance , the island of Vulcano is now linked by a small spit of land to another small volcano , Vulcanello , which used to be a separate island , and it has been suggested that this pair comprised the ‘ Scylla and Charybdis ’ , beloved of Homer and modern politicians , but then so have several other island pairs in the Mediterranean . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that this form derives from that of the structure of the human eye itself , and may have been conceived by the theologist Fra' Paolo Sarpi , who collaborated on eye research in 1581–84 with Girolamo Fabrizio d'Acquapendente . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that this opinion establishes that members of an organisation do not remain ‘ masters of the treaty ’ in that they were unable to amend the constitutive treaty . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that this acetylation process may inactivate the drug , and the results of clinical treatment trials of Ac-ASA have been conflicting , with the drug being ineffective in two out of three trials . |
| 12 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that some sounds are distracting than others and that there are certain kinds of mental activity that are more at risk than others . |
| 14 | More recently , however , it has been suggested that these subgovernments have been increasingly complemented by the development of what are called ‘ issue networks ’ . |
| 15 | Carlo was made a cardinal at 22 and Archbishop of Milan at 26 , though it has been suggested that these appointments were as much due to the boy 's uncle being Pope Pius IV as to any inherent abilities . |
| 16 | It had been suggested that many futurologists that greatly increased leisure for the multitudes will result from automation , computerisation , nuclear energy and other technological advances . |
| 17 | In BCCI v Aboody [ 1990 ] 1 QB 923 ( following in the path of some earlier but recent decisions ) it had been suggested that any surety would have to look after his ( or her ) own interests ; the creditor should not need to ensure that the surety properly understood the transaction . |
| 18 | As it had been suggested that these cars should resemble the London United bogie cars , they had short canopies and double flight stairs , changing direction at a small landing half way up . |
| 19 | Many theories have been suggested and most back to the whale by the environment and any objects , such as fish , nearby ; the whale builds up a picture of its surroundings from these echoes . |