Example sentences of "it [verb] be [verb] [that] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 It has been suggested that omeprazole treatment in patients with peptic ulcer disease will not be associated with clinically relevant EC-like cell proliferation since increases in serum gastrin in these patients are modest compared with those in patients with type A atrophic gastritis .
32 It has been suggested that morality can not really be understood in terms of the means-end relationship since morality may demand that we relinquish a specific end ‘ including the end of one 's own moral perfection . ’
33 It has been suggested that response to lifestyle advice is constrained by a number of factors .
34 It has been suggested that suffering may be appropriate when in some way it contributes to learning and personal growth .
35 The earliest known herbivorous vertebrate is the late Carboniferous pelycosaur , Edaphosaurus : it and other early herbivores were large ( 24m in length ) and it has been suggested that size was an adaptation to low-energy food , as their ancestors were carnivorous and smaller .
36 It has been suggested that spawning in Synodontis multipunctatus may be triggered by the pheromones which are produced during the activity of the cichlids , whereas other Synodontis species spawn in the rain and flood seasons .
37 It has been suggested that smoking causes a local immunological defect , which could facilitate the infection and persistence of human papillomavirus .
38 It has been suggested that degradation on the inside reflects beliefs about the role of women and the rights of elderly women in particular , an example of sexism and ageism in practice ( Phillipson , 1981 , p. 198 ) .
39 Third , it has been suggested that government provision may encourage an unhelpful separation between payment and cost in the minds of consumers .
40 It has been suggested that emergency colectomy and postoperative sepsis may predispose to the development of pouchitis .
41 It has been suggested that stage migration is most likely to take place in countries where there is a significant network of small towns and villages , such as Chile , Brazil and Colombia .
42 It has been suggested that section 5 is superfluous .
43 It has been suggested that blood pressure should be controlled at as near normotensive levels as possible to achieve maximal benefit .
44 It has been suggested that irrationality is a narrower concept than " abuse of power . "
45 : It has been suggested that dictionary definitions may be ’ expanded ’ to create of ’ semantic trees ’ , and that these trees can be traversed and searched to provide information for NLP systems [ Chodorow , Byrd & Heidorn , 1985 ] .
46 It has been suggested that sea-floor sediments as deep as 1000 metres may be disturbed .
47 At a very superficial level it has been suggested that retirement is not problematic for women because of the importance of their ‘ other ’ social roles .
48 It has been suggested that pressure of a moral obligation as justification is the basis of Brimelow v. Casson , though the case has been said to stand alone and there are conflicting dicta on moral obligation .
49 Considerably more work will be required to investigate this possibility , but it is particularly intriguing as it has been suggested that sorghum and millet were domesticated somewhere in the African savannah zone .
50 It has been suggested that microelectronics leads to much greater flexibility in the way in which work is organised , with real choices now being possible .
51 It has been suggested that information related to risk is central to driving , whereas other information is peripheral .
52 In South Wales the gastric cancer registration rates in miners are higher than in England , and it has been suggested that coal miners in urban areas should be considered as a high risk group suitable to be screened for the disease by the instigation of dyspepsia clinics .
53 On the basis of this evidence , it has been suggested that poverty is the primary cause of the failure to seek legal advice , and it has been proposed that the failure is due to a lack of ‘ legal competence ’ among the less affluent who suffer not only from lack of money , but also from lack of influence , lack of energy and lack of awareness .
54 It has been suggested that portal hypertension could be caused by an increased hepatic resistance to portal blood flow , as a consequence of sinusoidal collapse and distortion of liver architecture after extensive liver cell necrosis .
55 It has been suggested that supply would be adequate if all potential donors became actual donors .
56 It has been suggested that guidance should be given to the profession relating to receipts which are being issued for redemption money on the redemption of feuduties in terms of Section 4 of the Land Tenure Reform ( Scotland ) Act , 1974 , the section which provided for voluntary redemption of feuduties at the terms of Whitsunday and Martinmas .
57 It has been suggested that learner errors can be seen as evidence of learner achievement .
58 It has been suggested that millisecond pulsars contribute to the galactic γ -ray background , perhaps providing as much as 25% of the γ -ray flux at high galactic latitudes , although no millisecond pulsar has yet been detected at these energies .
59 It has been estimated that childhood protection from the sun ban reduce the risk of skin cancer in later life by 78% .
60 It has been estimated that signing up to the social charter would have cost Britain a minimum of £5,000 million a year , decreased competitiveness and increased unemployment .
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