Example sentences of "[verb] [been] suggested that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that the presence of an arms dealer and a minister engaged in selling arms , makes such an illegal cargo less implausible . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that the club would pay Knighton £1m as compensation , which would then be added to the price-tag Midani would put on the Edwards stake . |
| 3 | While it has been suggested that the absence of a cadre of professional managers is a major explanation for this situation , the real reasons almost certainly lie closer to the psychology of the entrepreneurs themselves . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that the move to a loans-based higher educational system will provide small firms with a supply of labour , as in the US , but this is unlikely to have a major effect other than on the demand for temporary workers . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that the Arkleton Trust , with its interest in new approaches to rural development , might become involved in the further elaboration and the evaluation of the IDP for the Western Isles . |
| 6 | Drawing a parallel with domestic appliances , such as refrigerators and freezers , which may be used in laboratories , it has been suggested that the average electricity consumption of newly purchased appliances in the UK is considerably higher than the best available in Europe . |
| 7 | Although there is little documentary evidence , it has been suggested that the mill , in conjunction with those at Cambridge and Moreton Valance , could have been used for the production of brass pins . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that the shock of widowhood for a woman is like compulsory redundancy for a man ; and for a woman whose career has been as a housewife this might certainly be the case , even though for others it could prove a relief from the narrow constraints of their domestic role . |
| 9 | Throughout this short book it has been suggested that the rise of semi-literacy and the dispersal of libraries are inter-related phenomena , the one feeding off the other to create a climate in which books and their contents become less and less important . |
| 10 | Not all of the manual has been disclosed or published , and it has been suggested that the unpublished parts cover the use of plastic bullets , CS gas , and other anti-crowd techniques ( Northam , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that the reason for this choice may have been that the longer of the two annual intervals between successive zenith-transits of the sun in the neighbourhood of Copan ( one of the most important Maya cities ) at latitude 15 degrees north is 260 days . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that the term achnelith ( Greek , ‘ spray stones ’ ) should be used to describe pyroclastic particles which originated from lavas so fluid that they owe their shape more to the effects of surface tension than any other cause . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that the USSR will need to finance imports of food , high technology and machinery to the value of $42 billion between 1984–1987 and would therefore need to increase energy exports to the West to about 150 MTOE per year . |
| 14 | … it has been suggested that the value of an activity may be related to the time expended by the user . |
| 15 | It has been suggested that the Templars were guardians of a secret that could have rocked both the French throne and the entire foundations of Christianity . |
| 16 | It has been suggested that the hurling of a silver ball into the air was an ancient rite symbolic of the year 's rebirth and the rising of the golden sun into the sky . |
| 17 | It has been suggested that the different findings in these studies were due to the different techniques applied to the collection of blood samples . |
| 18 | Thus , it has been suggested that the attempts to re-organise football in a more businesslike manner , to make it more professional , have alienated young working-class fans from their football clubs . |
| 19 | It has been suggested that the rhetoric is Type II , whilst the proposals are Type I. This may be considered an oversimplistic observation , but it would appear to contain some element of the truth . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that the presence of feelings of hopelessness may be a more sensitive indicator of attempted suicide risk than depression itself ( Minkoff et al. 1973 , Beck et al. 1975a , h ) . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that the special fear of the cat jumping up on them in an unexpected way is the result of cat phobics ' general dislike of spontaneity and fear of the suddenly surprising . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that the supply of slaves dried up and that slaves are by their nature infertile , so that a slave population dies out if not constantly recruited ; but neither proposition can be defended . |
| 23 | It has been suggested that the pressure of the Christian Church , which always encouraged manumission and discouraged the slave trade , had its effects in the end . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that the course of the walk be changed yet again . |
| 25 | Since a primitive ankylosaur looks somewhat like a primitive stegosaur , it has been suggested that the two sub-orders were really one which split apart later on in the evolutionary story . |
| 26 | It has been suggested that the three previous waves were associated respectively with the steam engine , the railways , and then electric power and the automobile . |
| 27 | The dead girl links The Two April Mornings to the ‘ Lucy ’ poems , and since Emma is used as another name for Dorothy Wordsworth in yet another group of poems , it has been suggested that the Lucy/Matthew cycle is connected with a sublimated brother-sister relationship . |
| 28 | It has been suggested that the Bredcroft site might have been a small sub-Roman settlement in the period between the decline of Great Casterton and the growth of Stamford . |
| 29 | The stubby third leg is probably the result of the difficulty of building on the marshy ground near the River Welland , although it has been suggested that the ‘ Blackfriars Spur ’ forms the phallus of the bull . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that the thirteenth-century Newstead Priory forms the terminus of the tail , but the Mycenean custom of removing the tail of the sacred bull implies that the Stamford figure may never have had one . |