Example sentences of "[that] it has be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the past it has been said AMV 's TV has never matched its press work ; that it has been insular and unadventurous from a strategic corporate point of view ; and that it has relied too heavily on its self-referential ability to sell middle-class brands .
2 Note that it has been necessary to enclose the camera behind a glass screen to cut down its noise .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 For example , if a school has attempted to improve its image in the neighbourhood it may feel that it has been successful if the number selecting the school for the following academic year increases .
6 In that it has been successful .
7 In both cases the ego seeks to defend itself against a passive relation to the superego and , in its manic symptoms , succeeds in convincing itself that it has been successful .
8 If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful .
9 we have had a few successes in spite of this uncaring government , and feel that it has been worthwhile to protest .
10 Perhaps the best that can be said of Mr Karimov 's treatment of dissidents is that it has been consistent .
11 That it has been possible to reach this point in the book without describing the signs of insanity in detail is a measure of their universality and of the fact that most of us have an intuitive understanding of their general quality .
12 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 .
13 The results show that it has been possible to set up community-based placements which offer much richer social and material environments than the hospitals they replace .
14 The series aspect of any element is illustrated in the blow-up of figure 9.16(c) and application of Kirchhoff 's voltage law to this aspect gives or This time note that it has been possible to neglect the change in the current phasor I over the infinitesimal element as it only leads to terms that are second order in smallness .
15 Secondly , it distorts the history of philosophy by assuming that it has been unchanging in its preoccupations and conceptualisations , which it clearly has not .
16 Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised .
17 As far as the effect of knowledge about language on pupils ' own language skill is concerned , it is true that it has been difficult or impossible to show any direct cause-and-effect relation between teaching formal grammar and improved writing performance .
18 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 .
19 Nevertheless , he says that it has been difficult to avoid the wholesale abandonment of a fascinating liturgical and musical tradition which had sound scholarly foundations .
20 Such is the wealth of historical literature that it has been difficult to decide what to give in notes in this chapter .
21 One reason for this lack of information is that it has been difficult to obtain pure enzymes that are sufficiently active under in vitro conditions .
22 However , as the WPGET ventures into a 13th season , it is pleasing to reflect that it has been lucky not just for some , but for the majority of women golfers , both amateur and professional .
23 The criticisms have fallen into certain categories , one general line being that the service has failed to adopt modern methods of management , that it has been slow in understanding the use of statistical information and of specialized knowledge of the social services , and that it does not think ahead enough or organize its planning on a sufficiently systematic basis , in part because officials spend too much time on routine departmental work .
24 I know that it has been hard to make ends meet over the past two years .
25 ‘ I think I could take a barrister 's brief for arguing that up to , say , 1985 the squeeze was a necessary remedy for the rather free expansion which had taken place in the 1960s , and early 1970s , ’ says Sir Eric , ‘ but I do n't believe I could even theoretically argue that it has been justifiable since then .
26 Before commencing it should be emphasized that when a geologist talks of a volcano having been recently active , he means that it has been active within the last ten thousand years .
27 Suppose the brochure mentions another hotel , stating that it has been open for several seasons and that it closes every year from November to March .
28 William Hammond Bartholomew was the Resident Engineer on this broad canal which was usual in that it has been able to resist competition from the railways .
29 Public opinion is growing too large for the channels that it has been accustomed to run through . ’
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