Example sentences of "it [verb] been [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this connection , it has been pointed out that : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The indemnity was described simply as a payment ‘ for making peace ’ , but it has been pointed out that the sum of £20,000 is close to the amount thought to have been extorted by the Scots from the northern counties of England over the years since Bannockburn , and the payment may have been seen as compensation for the destruction wrought in the north . |
| 14 | It has been pointed out that investors are primarily motivated to invest in a company 's shares on the basis of the company 's likely profitability ; not whether the management engage in insider dealing . |
| 15 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
| 16 | In support of this it has been pointed out that two distinct kinds of descriptive statement can be made about a verbal work of art . |
| 17 | It has been pointed out that high levels of welfare accompany prosperity as cause as well as effect . |
| 18 | It has been pointed out that there are biases in the system that make it much easier for some interests to be heard than others , and much easier for modifications to the status quo to be vetoed than to be supported . |
| 19 | It has been pointed out that the last type of liability is not quite the same as liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher in that the thing accumulated on the land does not itself escape . |
| 20 | It has been pointed out that the insignia assigned to the vicarius of the British diocese , alone of such officers , consists of castellated enclosures instead of maidens , indicating that he commanded troops . |
| 21 | ( It has been pointed out that Governments tend to speak of ‘ subsidising railways ’ and ‘ investing in roads ’ — which shows a clear difference of attitude . ) |
| 22 | In our society it has been pointed out that we do not always give due credit to the ladies who provide the refreshments at our meetings , and yet the coffee break is an attractive part of the evenings , the time when we can chat about the talk and other railway topics . |
| 23 | Recently , however , it has been pointed out that mansi absi were often registered as owing dues , which were always in cash rather than labour services . |
| 24 | It has been pointed out that the intent of the act of 1691 which allowed settlement " earned " from an apprenticeship , a period of qualifying employment or householding , was constructive . |
| 25 | The narrator of the tale is made a rhetorician , apostrophizing both his audience : and one of his characters : It has been pointed out that a skilled mastery of the " idiom of popular poetry " , embodied in the witty appropriation of familiar poetic epithets such as hende , jolif and gent , which are used of Nicholas , Absolon and Alison respectively , is not simply a characteristic of Chaucerian style , but is especially exploited by Chaucer for this one tale . |
| 26 | It has been pointed out that enormous thicknesses of basaltic lavas erupted during the early stages of rifting characterize some passive margins , such as those of eastern Brazil , western India and the south-eastern part of southern Africa . |
| 27 | It has been pointed out that the location of those markets is itself a telling advantage to Scottish traders because they all have weak currencies ( the lira and peseta ) while former German and Dutch suppliers are forced to trade with the strongest ( the deutschmark and the guilder ) . |
| 28 | Similar words not derived in this way do not have the syllabic — it has been pointed out that the two words ‘ coddling ’ ( derived from the verb ‘ coddle ’ ) and ‘ codling ’ ( meaning ‘ small cod ’ , derived by adding the diminutive suffix ‘ -ling ’ to ‘ cod ’ ) show a contrast between syllabic and non-syllabic : ‘ coddling ’ and ‘ codling ’ . |
| 29 | Of course , it could be claimed that this was the same thing as : but it has been pointed out that the two versions are different in several ways . |
| 30 | It has been demonstrated previously that p10 promoter is able to terminate upstream transcription ( 22 , 23 ) , and therefore , we have used p10 promoter to terminate transcription from the polyhedrin promoter in pAcAB3 vector . |