Example sentences of "[verb] been suggested [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For though it has been suggested that Minton 's attendance at Lehmann 's soirées was in part determined by his hope of work , he would also have been stimulated by the company he met .
2 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 .
3 It has been suggested that smoking causes a local immunological defect , which could facilitate the infection and persistence of human papillomavirus .
4 In order to overcome these difficulties , it has been suggested that members of committees should be encouraged to evaluate decisions critically .
5 It has been suggested that hyperglycaemia reduces gastrointestinal function through inhibition of the vagal cholinergic system .
6 It has been suggested that Lord Castlehaven 's case is authority for the proposition that a man can be liable for rape of his wife But Castlehaven was indicted as praesens , auxilians and confortans for holding his wife down to facilitate her rape by ‘ one of his minions . ’
7 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 .
8 East Anglian independence survived long enough for coins to be minted for Aethelberht , king of the East Angles , and it has been suggested that Offa 's East Anglian coinage may not have begun much before c .
9 It has been suggested that alkaloid level fluctuations may affect the feeding patterns of orang-utans through the day .
10 Although , in its pure form , the bureaucracy concept can not be applied fully to schools , it has been suggested that bureaucratisation is one of the most significant educational developments of the times .
11 Third , it has been suggested that government provision may encourage an unhelpful separation between payment and cost in the minds of consumers .
12 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 ) .
13 A raised basal and exaggerated meal stimulated gastrin response have been noted in infected duodenal ulcer patients and it has been suggested that hypergastrinaemia is one mechanism whereby H pylori contributes to the ulcer diathesis .
14 In addition it has been suggested that bureaux make contact with the social worker for the deaf at the local Social Services Department to ensure that the bureau has all the up-to-date information relevant to the deaf .
15 It has been suggested that pioneers are able to tolerate high rates of herbivory because of their ‘ cheaper ’ leaves and faster growth rates .
16 It has been suggested that suffering may be appropriate when in some way it contributes to learning and personal growth .
17 It has been suggested that emergency colectomy and postoperative sepsis may predispose to the development of pouchitis .
18 For example , it has been suggested that sons or daughters may resent a situation in which they find themselves forced to be ‘ in charge ’ of a formerly dominant parent .
19 It has been suggested that Britain is being ‘ flooded ’ with refugees .
20 It has been suggested that diarrhoea reflects malabsorption because of either infiltration of the mucosa by inflammatory cells and luminal narrowing of the submucosal arterioles , or intestinal bacterial overgrowth .
21 It seems unlikely , especially in the light of the papal prohibition , that monks would have had either the inclination or the experience to have practised mos teutonicus , and it has been suggested that butchers were called in to perform the grisly deeds .
22 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 .
23 Though it has been suggested that Cynddylan may have been among Penda 's British allies at the Winwaed , there is no direct evidence for this , but when Penda attacked Oswiu in the mid-650s he is said to have been supported by British kings ( HB ch. 64 ) , principal among whom was Cadafael ap Cynfedw , king of Gwynedd ( HB ch. 65 ) .
24 It has been suggested that Harry 's guilt at apparently murdering his wife is a reflection of Eliot 's own feelings after separating from Vivien .
25 It has been suggested that Jesus did not mean ‘ dogs ’ in the sense of an insult but household dogs who are the family friends .
26 It has been suggested that Jesus rode into Jerusalem at the time of the Feast of Dedication , which came just before the Passover .
27 It has been suggested that Melbourne 's Government shelved the scheme through lack of money .
28 IT has been suggested that Hox genes play an important part in the patterning of limbs , vertebrae and craniofacial structures by providing an ordered molecular system of positional values , termed the Hox code .
29 It has been suggested that expert systems might be ‘ a solution looking for a problem ’ .
30 This has been an introductory chapter in which it has been suggested that students do not need to delve deeply into the debate about the definition of the field of study of social policy .
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