Example sentences of "been [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | How the latter will be achieved remains to be seen , but it has been mooted that a surcharge should be levied on tropical timber , to be paid by the market , which could be used to undertake research into ways of achieving and ensuring tropical forest survival . |
| 2 | The majority of their lordships rejected this argument and held that it had been intended that a customer who accepted the offer by buying four gallons would thereby become entitled in law to have a World Cup coin . |
| 3 | It has long been recognized that a variety of structural divisions have generated more or less distinct cultures and sub-cultures , whether based on class divisions , age , gender or religion . |
| 4 | It had been arranged that a trustworthy man would come then to collect him and take him to a safe house . |
| 5 | It had been calculated that a uniformity of two-thousandths of an inch was an unheard-of standard of accuracy — except at Cadillac . |
| 6 | But it has obviously been forgotten that a near-similar system was in place almost exactly a century ago — the submarine cable system , a communicative technique in which the British were supreme . |
| 7 | It was only once the basic political problems of the transition had been resolved that a coherent strategy could emerge for confronting the immediate economic crisis , and for dealing with serious underlying questions such as the restructuring of basic sectors of industry and the modernization of state finances and administration . |
| 8 | It has been supposed that a vocal response must necessarily emanate from the left hemisphere and that a stimulus presented in the left half field of vision must therefore be transferred from the right to the left hemisphere . |
| 9 | On Nov. 3 it had been reported that a US nuclear-powered submarine , the Topeka , had entered the Gulf in a move intended to underline US concern over the imminent delivery of the first of two Kilo class Russian diesel submarines to the Iranian port of Banda Abbas [ see p. 39122 ] , with a third said to be on option . |
| 10 | It had been expected that a limited corp of staff would remain as a support unit after the last aircraft departs in January . |
| 11 | It has been claimed that a third brother settled in America and that one of his descendants founded the internationally known Piper Aircraft Corporation but research has shown this to be false . |
| 12 | It has been noticed that a few teachers have still to pay their Society membership for 1981 … |
| 13 | However , now that it has been decided that a Sunday game of 50 overs per side is a better idea ‘ for cricket ’ , many are already beginning to rue the demise of the 40-overs game . |
| 14 | It 's been revealed that a prostitute who was found murdered was responsible for an eight year old boy dying of a drugs overdose . |
| 15 | It 's been revealed that a man who 's thought to have killed his wife and two young children , visited the town where his first wife was buried , before drowning himself . |
| 16 | In biological writing it has often been said that a character is advantageous or detrimental to a species . |
| 17 | It has been said that a negative character quality is a positive quality misused . |
| 18 | It has been said that a devaluation would result in even higher interest rates . |
| 19 | To take one example : it has frequently been said that a child 's attachment to his mother develops out of his physical dependence on her . |
| 20 | It has been said that a person is judged by the company he keeps . |
| 21 | Thus Dewey 's policy of integrity of numbers has found great favour : an undertaking has been made that a piece of notation will not be revised and given another meaning . |
| 22 | There is some comment has been made that a new settlement to the South or the South West of York would in some way undermine the urban regeneration erm of Leeds City Council , now I find this a surprising comment given that though people who are making that comment are also at the same time advocating much increased development allocations to , for example , Harrogate district , the main centre for which is erm , nearer than most conceivable new settlement locations to the South and South West of York . |
| 23 | He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused . |
| 24 | He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused . |
| 25 | It has also been argued that a reliance on external inspection alone removes from teachers the responsibility to evaluate their own work . |
| 26 | It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming . |
| 27 | It has been argued that a new spatial division of labour has been created which has changed the relative attractiveness of locations ( Massey and Meegan 1982 , Massey 1984 ) . |
| 28 | It has been argued that a State may intervene , even forcibly , in the affairs of another State without violating Article 2 ( 4 ) of the United Nations Charter , or the norm of non-intervention where the intervention is justified on humanitarian grounds , for example to stop gross violations of human rights . |
| 29 | It has just been argued that a thorough analysis of the market attractiveness and competitive strengths of an SBU ( possibly based upon a Porter analysis ) , should provide more insight into the future covariability of the SBU and total market returns . |
| 30 | It has also been argued that a lifting of the exemption could induce spiteful and malicious allegations by wives , particularly where divorce proceedings were involved . |