Example sentences of "be [vb pp] that this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has been hypothesised that this characteristic is due to extra chromosomal material in the X chromosome as compared with the Y chromosome .
2 There is no similar obligation to report where a debentureholder enters into possession and it has been recommended that this omission be corrected .
3 The aristocracy — ie. titled landowners — do still exist and have been joined by the very wealthy ( through ownership or investment ) : it has been reckoned that this 1% of adult population owns one-quarter of all the wealth in Britain .
4 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 . ’
5 This requires diagnostic skills normally associated with doctors , but it has long been suspected that this responsibility is generally left entirely to the DN , so this section begins with an analysis of DN responses to the question : ‘ Who decided on current treatment ? ’ before examining that treatment .
6 Checks have been made that this bone was not missed during laboratory processing of the pellet samples , and there is little chance of bones being detached from pellets before collection because of the compact nature of barn owl pellets .
7 It has been argued that this approach may delay treatment of a victim of obstructed airway or primary respiratory arrest .
8 ( 11.30 ) In Section 10.2 it has been argued that this solution must be considered to be unphysical on its own , but it may be included as a factor in more general solutions .
9 For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey .
10 It has been argued that this essay is vitiated by " bad faith " .
11 By the mid-1670s Peyton had become the leader of a republican group , ‘ Peyton 's Gang ’ , and it has been argued that this group had a hand in the murder of the JP Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey [ q.v. ] in 1678 , which provoked widespread belief in the bogus ‘ Popish Plot ’ .
12 It has since been accepted that this kind of arrangement can not be accommodated at most other council buildings .
13 It had been anticipated that this group of fit and well motivated patients would have fared better , and allowed full assessment of the advantages of this technique , particularly as the patients were younger , median age 63 ( range 33–77 ) and fitter ( lower ASA grade ) .
14 I have been told that this decision was partly in response to lobbying by feminist groups .
15 What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain .
16 They are told that this sort of question or embellishment is inappropriate .
17 A new class , the W-cells , has been added , descriptions of the properties of the three classes have been extended , and it has been shown that this segregation into three classes extends to subsequent stages in the visual system , including the visual cortex .
18 I mention this here because it has sometimes been thought that this type of community is abnormal or atypical .
19 C/EBPα mRNA levels are down-regulated in mice by IL-6 ( 43 ) and since it has been demonstrated that this protein interacts with the albumin promoter , a negative AP gene , ( 44 ) this could explain the IL-6 dependent down-regulation of the albumin protein levels .
20 As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance .
21 It has been found that this form of conditioning can occur much more rapidly if the response prevents unpleasant stimuli occurring or stops them once they have started .
22 Without wishing to detract from the impact of the number of dogs put to sleep weekly by the RSPCA , it must be realised that this number would be much higher if vets themselves did not also spend much of their time carrying out euthanasia .
23 Need it be emphasized that this exposition claims to be no more than schematic ?
24 It should be emphasized that this level of explanation does not commit the functionalist to a belief in any non-physical substances or processes .
25 It should be emphasized that this division into four classes is man-made ; it is convenient for the construction of partial theories , but it may not correspond to anything deeper .
26 It should be emphasized that this policy initiative was part of much broader policy changes in the city , set in motion by a new Labour leadership elected in May 1980 .
27 It can not be supposed that this regulation meant that , in each case , the minister in person should direct his mind to the matter .
28 But it must be added that this meaning is never the right one : superstructures are faulty acts which have ‘ made it ’ socially .
29 So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there .
30 This is because their world knowledge tells them that the banks found near rivers are not usually of the financial type ( although it must be stressed that this interpretation is not wrong , it is just less likely ) .
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