Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] that [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been calculated that if every driver in the United States reduced petrol consumption by 5% , and every family lowered its central heating temperature by 6 degrees and raised the air conditioning temperature by the same amount , the saving would be the equivalent of the total oil consumption for the continent of Africa . |
| 2 | Conversely it has been argued that if the composition of the House of Lords was altered , giving it more credibility , then its powers should correspondingly be increased . |
| 3 | For example , in I want to go , it has been argued that because the wanting is conceived as preceding the going , to is required to situate the latter event beyond the former . |
| 4 | It has been said that while the 1980s was the decade of efficiency , the 1990s is the decade of quality . |
| 5 | Hence it has been assumed that because the user carries out known-item searches , known items do meet the user 's information needs . |
| 6 | And it has been revealed that if the flames had spread to gas lines in the science block at Dyke House School in Hartlepool it could have been a lot worse . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that where a tenant has had to make substantial alterations the court may force the landlord to make a contribution , but this is not to be relied upon . |
| 8 | In each appeal reliance was placed upon a series of cases in which it has been affirmed that where the liberty of the subject is in issue , the proper procedures must be strictly observed . |
| 9 | It has been held that if a solicitor preparing a will omits a provision the testator intended , it counts as a ‘ clerical error ’ , and that the will can therefore be rectified by the court under the Administration of Justice Act 1982 ( p 100 ) . |
| 10 | Where the defendant is in possession of the plaintiff 's goods there is no doubt that an unjustified refusal to return them generally constitutes conversion but it has been held that where the plaintiff has possession there is no conversion if the defendant simply refuses to allow the plaintiff to remove them . |
| 11 | ‘ It has been proved that if a child attends a nursery school it benefits throughout the rest of its educational life . ’ |
| 12 | Regarding the latter context , it has been shown that when a word is preceded or accompanied by a ’ semantically ’ related word , recognition of that word is facilitated with respect to unrelated controls . |
| 13 | It has been found that if a block of poly(vinylchloride) is brought in contact with a block of polycaprolactone , at temperatures above T g , then D rept is higher than expected and is proportional to . |
| 14 | In June it had been announced that since the start of the year 130,000 people had left the CPSU ( as many as in the whole of 1989 ) , and on July 26 Prokofyev ( the Moscow city party first secretary ) announced that around 10,000 people had left the CPSU in the capital in July alone . |
| 15 | With our moving day getting closer ; it had been arranged that until the move was completed , he and the cats would go to stay with friends Gavin and Rita Miller , who lived near Dolgellau . |
| 16 | A few years earlier it had been calculated that if the populations of modern cities continued to increase in the 20th century , so would the horse-traffic , and that by 1960 cities like New York , London , and Glasgow , would be 100 feet deep in horse manure . |
| 17 | Poor Anna had been very indiscreet , the fascisti were going to arrest her or put pressure on her to leave the country for good , but he had been assured that if the principessa were to live again with him quietly in Rome nobody would touch her . |
| 18 | It had been feared that if the impact of the recession and resistance to the toll increase had exceeded 10pc motorists faced another price rise . |