Example sentences of "[verb] been pointed out " in BNC.

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1 Such a view is easily reconciled with Marxist theory , as has been pointed out by E. Terray [ Terray , 1977a ] .
2 It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts .
3 It has been pointed out that the only propositions of which this is true are ‘ analytic ’ propositions — those that contain not statements of fact but rules about language .
4 It has been pointed out that the legal protection of children 's welfare is not the same as the conferment of rights on children , since it presupposes that welfare agencies , judges and even parents would have the right to take decisions on the child 's behalf .
5 To the extent that the Home Secretary suggested that the Act did not involve any extension of the Government 's powers , this could be only because in practice the guidelines were being exceeded for , as has been pointed out subsequently , the phrase ‘ national security ’ is not confined to major subversion or espionage ( Lloyd , 1987 ) .
6 In this connection , it has been pointed out that :
7 It has been pointed out ( Akehurst and Drummond , 1989 ) that , while managers take some of the decisions controlling resource allocation , such as the nature of the ‘ hotel ’ facilities in hospitals , the major resource allocators are the doctors .
8 However , it has been pointed out by Dr. B. Leadbeater , that great care must be taken before these formulae are used to determine the efficiency of dilution for abatement of odour nuisance , for in order to achieve concentrations below the threshold detection levels some odorants would need diluting by a factor in order of 6,000 , so unless very high chimneys are contemplated this method only provides a limited answer .
9 As has been pointed out above , the solution inside the interaction region IV is conformally flat .
10 The text does , however , refer to a rescript , and it has been pointed out that oddities in the structure and language may be due to incorporating that .
11 However , as has been pointed out by Hills , there are four main factors that affect learning in practical situations : motivation , activity , understanding , feedback .
12 This might be an advantage for some , but as has been pointed out , the factor of isolation may not favour the extrovert student who prefers the companionship and competition of the classroom .
13 As has been pointed out in Chapter Two , an integrated education programme should be based on the views of all the people participating in the various educational processes , but the final success of a given course depends , to a large extent , on the motivation of the students .
14 One of the difficulties in designing this type of interface has been pointed out by Caruso , in that the design of IIDA was finalized prior to DIALOG 's introduction of SS — Select Steps command — so these are not included in IIDA .
15 It has been pointed out that the behaviour of zebras simply does not match with this picture of them standing very still in broken cover .
16 It has been pointed out that the modern ostrich and the Cretaceous Struthiomimus lived in the same sort of exposed habitat , and thus evolved similar bipedal running gaits .
17 As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass .
18 It has been pointed out that incense was given to Jesus at his birth , and perfume poured over him to prepare him for his death .
19 It has been pointed out ( by Anthony Storr and Joel Kovel : see Reading List ) that Adler 's influence has been considerable but under-rated .
20 However , it has been pointed out — most recently by Stan Gooch in his Cities of Dreams ( 1989 ) — that this is to take a rather narrow view of what we mean by civilization .
21 It has been pointed out that , far from reinforcing grammatically correct speech , adults typically respond to children 's utterances in terms of their perceived communicative value and the intentions which they seem to express .
22 It has been pointed out that you need to knit two straight rows after each transfer and , at first , glance , it may look as though you do n't knit the two rows after a plain arrow for this punchcard .
23 AS has been pointed out in your magazine , the ITV coverage of the World Cup was very good , although promises that the BBC would be totally outshone did not really come to much .
24 It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature :
25 For example , it has been pointed out that one person can not be asked the same question twice , the second time he is not the same person because he has already been asked the question once .
26 For the period 1757–1822 it has been calculated that the aggregate drain was approximately £250 million , while it has been pointed out that for the period from the 1850s to the First World War surpluses from the Indian economy were crucial in allowing Britain to balance its deficits with Europe and the USA ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 81 , 88 ) .
27 All this implies , as has been pointed out in the collected evidence presented to the 1987 Select Committee inquiry into the implementation of the 1981 Education Act ( cf vol 2 of the evidence ) , and to many others since then involved in attempts at educational reform :
28 Hence , it has been pointed out that there was no net increase in total real wealth between 1913 and 1951 , and in this context the world wars are cast as the harpies which devoured the accumulated efforts of previous generations .
29 As has been pointed out , several important nazi ideas come directly from English sources , and it was the use of such indigenous ideas rather than the copying of a successful foreign movement which accounted for the ideology of English racial nationalism .
30 ‘ But , as has been pointed out , Miss Rantzen still has an extremely successful career as a TV presenter .
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