Example sentences of "been [vb pp] 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It has been considered that therapeutic drugs such as sulphasalazine ( SASP ) , 5-aminosalicylic acid ( 5-ASA ) , and prednisolone ( PSL ) may reduce the accelerated cytotoxicity .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It has been claimed that modern-day pygmies of Malaysia and the Philippines or the Indians of Central America could have left similar prints .
11 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 .
12 However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances .
13 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 .
14 It has now been decided that both clubs will play on the Wednesday with 7.45 kick-offs .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 It has been said that few revolutions have been so complete in the British countryside as the start and end of the railway age .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 ) .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 ) .
30 However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract .
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