Example sentences of "[noun] that it [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growing urban scepticism about the ecological wisdom of intensive farming is often paralleled by a lack of appreciation that it has been essential to meet consumer demand for cheap food . |
| 2 | Public opinion is growing too large for the channels that it has been accustomed to run through . ’ |
| 3 | Such is the wealth of historical literature that it has been difficult to decide what to give in notes in this chapter . |
| 4 | It was already making such good progress that it 's been able to grow and improve in spite of so much petty interference as the Labour Group has been able to put on it . |
| 5 | She had an intimation that it had been important to her to have an impersonal initiation , in her own control , not over-whelming . |
| 6 | On Oct. 1 the United Kingdom bank Standard Chartered admitted to the committee that it had been aware of violations of banking guidelines by its Indian subsidiary some 18 months before the scandal erupted . |
| 7 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 8 | In March 1143 Pope Innocent II decreed that its validity was to depend on Ste Barbe swearing that it had been canonical ; he had not made this oath by February 1146 , when Eugenius III suspended Fitzherbert . |
| 9 | After 1986 parliamentary concern shifted towards the security service or MI5 , particularly because of allegations that it had been involved in attempts to smear elected politicians during the 1970s . |
| 10 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 11 | There have been so many taboos surrounding some kings that it has been difficult , if not impossible , to find anyone to be successor , for the taboos lead to total social isolation of the ruler . |
| 12 | Forced to devote his attention to the problem , he found he had succeeded in locking it when he had thought he was unlocking it , the reason being that it had been open all the time . |
| 13 | Although the 20 cm square shaft has been known about since 1882 it is only with developments in recent technology that it has been possible to explore it by means of a video camera mounted onto a mini robot . |
| 14 | The fact that it has been necessary so many times over the years to attempt interventions to halt conflict and define stretches of frontier invites an explanation . |