Example sentences of "been [verb] [that] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between six and ten years ago , there was a hundred and eighty pits in this country , yes a hundred and eighty pits , now we have a handful left and it has been leaked that all thirty one pits will still be closed within twelve months , done quietly and by the back door ignoring procedures and over the years this is what has been done . |
| 2 | It has been reported that pancreatic acinar cells , stimulated by caerulein or cholecystokinin , release substantial amounts of platelet activating factor . |
| 3 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 4 | It should be obvious from all that has been said that most small towns played a significant role in the economic life of the province , alongside the cities and major towns . |
| 5 | To the extent that a scientific speciality or discipline is bound together by the rules of an existing ‘ paradigm ’ defining the rules for ‘ puzzle-solving ’ with an existing ‘ normal science ’ , it has been argued that major scientific change often comes from outside the existing specialist group — not untypically through the ‘ migration ’ into the group of innovative outsiders . |
| 6 | Within the State Department it has been argued that two competing strategies — one ‘ Asian-oriented ’ and the other ‘ Europe-oriented ’ — had emerged and that the critical question was whether the US should have insisted on French concessions to Vietnamese nationalism as a condition of US support . |
| 7 | It has been argued that all public employment cases should be dealt with by the same forum which could resolve all the issues raised . |
| 8 | It has , however , been argued that certain fundamental Acts of Parliament such as the Act of Union with Scotland 1707 and the European Communities Act 1972 could not be repealed as , in each case , Parliament which enacted the provision is no longer in existence in the same form but has reconstituted itself as a less powerful body . |
| 9 | It has been argued that this visual route to word recognition is an attribute of the right hemisphere ( Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin , 1980 ) . |
| 10 | It has just been argued that detailed financial and managerial controls need to be based on specific product and/or SBU categories . |
| 11 | Throughout this paper it has been argued that separating special education policy from mainstream education policy creates an artificial division between special and mainstream education . |
| 12 | It has long been accepted that this exclusive jurisdiction prevents the courts of the land from dealing initially with issues falling to be decided by the visitor , and prevent an appeal from the visitor to those courts . |
| 13 | He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed . |
| 14 | I 've been told that these big old country houses are beautiful . |
| 15 | It has now been agreed that another two such seminars will be held and Douglas will shortly be asking for nominations to attend . |
| 16 | It has also been shown that more sensitive judgements can be obtained from children when the power figure — so often represented by the adult — is removed ( Lloyd and Donaldson , 1976 ) . |
| 17 | It had long been thought that many seventeenth and eighteenth century blocks in Rome were of a type of construction essentially Medieval or Renaissance , but Ostia shows that the basic plan of these is Roman . |
| 18 | However , while there is extensive evidence of assortative mating ( O'Donald , 1980 ) , of the importance of plumage characteristics in courtship ( Williams , 1982 ) and of female preference for males who can defend superior breeding territories ( Pleszczynska , 1978 ) only very recently has it been demonstrated that consistent female choice for any continuous morphological character in males is an important source of variation in male reproductive success . |
| 19 | Fortunately , it has been demonstrated that most non-polar polymers can be treated in this way and results agree well with direct measurements of . |
| 20 | It is only after the very last entity has been displayed that any quantitative evaluation can be performed . |
| 21 | It has also been noted that influential local people use the provision of school facilities , extra classrooms , libraries , more teachers and lower teacher/pupil ratios as a way of enhancing their own status and prestige . |
| 22 | Since the original description of a columnarised lower esophagus by Barrett in 1950 and Allison and Johnson in 1953 it has been recognised that this abnormal lining has a marked propensity to develop serious complications . |
| 23 | do a bit of shopping so yeah , I have n't been doing that this last few weeks but , any |
| 24 | For example , it has been found that some striking perceptual differences in viewing a wire-frame cube ( including , for example , the ease with which certain mental images can be formed of it ) depend on which alternative structural description of the object is assigned to it by the perceiver ( Hinton 1979 ) . |
| 25 | In reviewing some of them in this book , it has been found that several complicating features arise , beside the straightforward failings of human beings wishing to pigeon-hole phenomena or experiences into neat categories : ‘ strategies ’ or ‘ syndromes ’ with classical-sounding names . |
| 26 | Recently it has been found that those old people who either have pets of their own or who have access to animals are often actually healthier — and are certainly happier — than those who have no such contact . |
| 27 | It has apparently been found that rigid bolted or glued joints will break in use . |
| 28 | On theoretical grounds , it has been proposed that hot coronal loops become unstable in evolved stars because of the combined effects of large size ( presumed to scale as the stellar radius ) and low surface gravity , leaving only low-lying cool loops which do not emit X-rays . |
| 29 | It had been hoped that three good performances in the so-called US ‘ 93 Cup would give Mr Taylor and his team some much-needed breathing space . |
| 30 | Without this we are breaking our governing rules and it has been indicated that any future occurrence will make the person concerned liable to disciplinary action . |