Example sentences of "been suggest that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 However , it has been suggested that long-term factors still favour further consolidation .
2 It has been suggested that non-cognitive theories of ethics do best with those ethical words such as ‘ good ’ and ‘ ought ’ which are most plausibly represented as purely valuational , while cognitivist theories ( which take moral knowledge and truth seriously ) do best with words such as ‘ brave ’ ’ loyal' and so forth ( LOVIBOND ) .
3 It has been suggested that similar reactions may take place on background sulphate aerosols in the Antarctic stratosphere , but as yet there has been no unambiguous evidence for these reactions in the absence of polar stratospheric clouds ( although there have been observations of ozone loss attributed to volcanic aerosols ) .
4 Although such behaviour corresponds closely to the descriptions of other feral children , it is impossible to know whether these children might have developed similar patterns of behaviour even if brought up in greater contact with people , and it has been suggested that feral children might have been abandoned by their parents because of their behaviour problems .
5 For cervical cancer it has been suggested that physiological reasons make it more difficult to take good smears from older women .
6 It has been suggested that young birds use their magnetic sense to orient a compass based on the sun and the stars .
7 At Great Dunmow , for instance , it has been suggested that such strips were up to c. 100 m ( 327 ft ) deep , while the Fosse Way southwest of Ilchester was lined by two successive rows of enclosures some 50 by 20 m ( 165 by 66 ft ) in size .
8 It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and can not be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived .
9 It has been suggested that such sediments are characteristic of aseismic continental shelves as they move away from a mid-oceanic ridge .
10 It has been suggested that such terranes are equivalent to oceanic plateaus , which are to be found in the present-day ocean basins and which often rise several kilometres above the adjacent ocean floor ( Fig. 3.32 ) .
11 It had been suggested that many futurologists that greatly increased leisure for the multitudes will result from automation , computerisation , nuclear energy and other technological advances .
12 As several million years are required for the transfer of a significant amount of heat to the surface of continental lithosphere , it has been suggested that hot spots are most likely to develop where the lithosphere is more or less stationary with respect to sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies as this would allow time for sustained heating to occur .
13 It has already been suggested that informal methods of dispute-resolution in the family arena are not new , nor are they alternatives to legal regulation .
14 It has more frequently been suggested that dilute sources will promote visits to many nowers and thus out-crossing , though it is difficult to see how such a mechanism could arise , and perhaps it is more satisfactory to surmise that visits by a pollen-dusted vector to several flowers on one plant are promoted , leading to cross fertilization of more .
15 Carlo was made a cardinal at 22 and Archbishop of Milan at 26 , though it has been suggested that these appointments were as much due to the boy 's uncle being Pope Pius IV as to any inherent abilities .
16 More recently , however , it has been suggested that these subgovernments have been increasingly complemented by the development of what are called ‘ issue networks ’ .
17 As it had been suggested that these cars should resemble the London United bogie cars , they had short canopies and double flight stairs , changing direction at a small landing half way up .
18 They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort .
19 It has been suggested that some sounds are distracting than others and that there are certain kinds of mental activity that are more at risk than others .
20 It has been suggested that different degrees of probability should apply depending on the nature of the allegation .
21 It has been suggested that seasonal migrations could explain their presence , but this hypothesis is untenable .
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