Example sentences of "be [verb] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving .
2 To explain these associations it has been hypothesised that dietary fat increases the colonic concentrations of soluble free fatty acids and secondary bile acids .
3 It has been hypothesised that this characteristic is due to extra chromosomal material in the X chromosome as compared with the Y chromosome .
4 It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns .
5 Recently , however , it has also been recognized that surface-water hydrology and climate variations can influence the evolution of individual silicic caldera-hosted geothermal systems , although it is difficult to judge the general importance of such effects in controlling the long-term behaviour of continental geothermal systems .
6 Is it not perverse , therefore , that some people are suggesting that those hospital trusts should be wound up ?
7 Furthermore I am suggesting that each team should be no larger than 16 staff .
8 I am suggesting that this relationship is also to be found in games , in the arts and in life .
9 Advice has been received that such work would not be more than 5% of the adviser 's time .
10 Farmers and local residents say the hippies are destructive , noisy and dangerous , and are demanding that harsher action be taken against them .
11 It has already been stressed that social policy can not be analysed on its own , without reference to other activities of the state .
12 Staff are reminded that unauthorised software must not be used on any of the Garden 's computing equipment .
13 It has been recommended that radiologicial examination should be reserved for patients who present with confusing or indistinct diagnostic features .
14 There is no similar obligation to report where a debentureholder enters into possession and it has been recommended that this omission be corrected .
15 Since then it has been reported that Soviet television has covered the election of a factory director by delegates representing the workforce of 13,000 .
16 It has been reported that isolation-reared laboratory animals show abnormal behaviour towards painful sensory stimulation , such as a burning match or pin-prick .
17 It has been reported that gastric infusion of bile salts in rats delays gastric emptying and inhibits small bowel transit time .
18 It has been reported that spontaneous cell mediated cytotoxicity brought on by mononuclear cells can be inhibited by SASP but not by corticosteroid , and that ADCC is not influenced by SASP or corticosteroid .
19 But at least the people of Limoges had been reminded that royal favour and displeasure were worthy of consideration .
20 It has been claimed that automatic crystallisation is unfair in the sense that it could prejudice subsequent chargees who do not know , and indeed who may have no way of knowing , that the charge has crystallised .
21 Indeed , it has been claimed that irritable bowel syndrome is primarily a small intestinal condition and that symptoms originate mainly from this site .
22 It has often been claimed that English speech is rhythmical , and that the rhythm is detectable in the regular occurrence of stressed syllables ; of course , it is not suggested that the timing is as regular as a clock — the regularity of occurrence is only relative .
23 It has been claimed that high unemployment , recent legislation and changes in the strategies of management have served to weaken the power of trade unions , thereby permitting changes in working practices and work organization which provide a base for improved productivity and performance .
24 It has been claimed that company-level bargaining has advantages over , and is presumptively more efficient than , industry-wide bargaining in that wages can be related directly to the firm 's performance , profitability and capacity to pay ( Ulman , 1974a ) .
25 Sometimes historians assume when they are writing that this context already exists in the mind of the reader ( e.g. that you are familiar with a particular person or idea ; that you have background knowledge of a topic ) .
26 The praise bestowed on the adaptation of literary classics , the films of the foreign directors , and the role of Vidor always stressed the relative realism of these films compared with the standard product and was testimony to the extent to which the feature film had moved away from the era of social preoccupations when it had been felt that social preaching was the obvious subject-matter for Hollywood .
27 There has been a tendency more recently , however , for deaf people to be wary of consecutive interpreting where they may feel information is added to , or subtracted from , the message ( Allsop and Kyle , 1982 ) , even though for spoken languages it has usually been felt that consecutive interpreting is much more effective and much easier to check for the validity of the interpretation ( Herbert , 1978 ) .
28 It has been said that old age comes as a surprise : I was then eighty but had yet to realise it .
29 In common with Category 2 of the New South Wales legislation , it has been said that this offence is ‘ more significant for what it fails to include [ than ] for what it does include . ’
30 It appears from experiments in which platelet-membrane fractions have been separated that thromboxane synthesis is associated with intracellular membranes known as dense tubular membranes ( Carey et al , 1982 ) .
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