Example sentences of "it [verb] been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | C. S. Lewis offered the most daring statement in the final volume of the ‘ Narnia ’ series , The Last Battle ( 1956 ) , in which we come across a young ( dead ) virtuous pagan , Emeth , who explains that all his life he has served Tash and scorned Aslan the Lion — earlier on it has been made clear that Tash is a bloody demon , Aslan , one might as well say , the ‘ Narnian ’ Christ . |
| 32 | Whilst it has been made clear that in this group both men and women assume caring roles , feminists have rightly pointed out that some of the dilemmas and problems are worse for women , not least because social conventions have not ascribed the same significance to employment for women as for men . |
| 33 | It has been made clear from the outset that the Board 's remit extends over some 350 institutions ; in other words , it is concerned not just with the 90 or so establishments substantially engaged in public sector higher education that would have come within the aegis of the Green Paper 's Model B , but with virtually all those which make some provision for higher education . |
| 34 | On the wider issue , it has been made clear , not simply from what I have said but through what I have done over many years — in an earlier ministerial capacity and in my present one — that we are more than willing to take action where it is shown to be necessary , once we are sure that such action would be well-judged . |
| 35 | More recently , it has been made clear that breach of a covenant not to assign or sublet is similarly irremediable . |
| 36 | It has been argued that building systems to motivate and evaluate appropriate investment behaviour is better achieved when based upon a careful strategic analysis and critical success factors . |
| 37 | Those who know , think it a matter without interest , so that again and again in my enquiries , when some touch of colour has been given illuminating the ways of life among the people who are above the need for help , it has been cut short by a semi-apology : ‘ But that is not what you want to know about ’ … |
| 38 | Nevertheless because user education work has been so fragmentary and uneven at times , it has been felt worthwhile to attempt co-operation and co-ordination . |
| 39 | The muted colours of Pavlos 's objects derives from the relation of the many cut edges to the printed colours of the paper , which are only visible where it has been spread open . |
| 40 | Most of it has been proved wrong . |
| 41 | It has been suggested that sister parties within the Socialist International are not allowed to compete with one another . |
| 42 | It has been suggested that alienation from others ( both staff and patients ) on the ward often precedes suicide ( Morgan and Priest 1984 ) . |
| 43 | Maintenance of information in verbal memory is based on sub-vocal rehearsal of material held in a fading phonological store and it has been suggested that maintenance of spatial information in memory over short periods is also carried out by an active control process based on a response system . |
| 44 | It has been suggested that acetylation probably inactivates the drug , as is often the case with hepatic metabolism of drugs . |
| 45 | It has been suggested that susceptibility to autoimmune disease in general , including Crohn 's disease , is under the control of a single dominant gene , the specific clinical effects of which are determined by other genes , hormonal influences , and environment triggers . |
| 46 | The mechanism is unknown , although it has been suggested that activation of tumour necrosis factor ( TNF ) may be responsible . |
| 47 | It has been suggested that Methodism generally produced an attitude of mind and sense of resignation as well as the habits of order and " industry " which combined to reinforce in the proletariat the necessary submission to the disciplinary imperatives of industrial capitalism . |
| 48 | It has been suggested many times since . |
| 49 | It has been estimated that tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking account for about three quarters of all oral and pharyngeal cancers [ 4 ] . |
| 50 | It has been estimated that three-quarters of the elderly , compared with one-fifth of the non-elderly , live on or below the poverty line . |
| 51 | It has been estimated that about 15.7 per cent . |
| 52 | In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times . |
| 53 | It has been mentioned several times that tonic syllables have a high degree of prominence ; prominence is , of course , a property of stressed syllables , and a tonic syllable not only carries a tone ( which is something related to intonation ) but also a type of stress that will be called tonic stress . |
| 54 | Since it has been introduced 43 people have been cut off the dole and 21 continue to receive reduced rates of social security in the North of Ireland . |
| 55 | Notwithstanding problems of this kind there has been undoubted improvement in VDU design and it has been speculated that trade union pressure for high design standards has been a major stimulus to companies marketing their products on the basis of user acceptability . " |
| 56 | In this context , it has been reported that over-expression of EGF in gastric mucosa is , by itself , unlikely to cause transformation without the simultaneous overproduction of the EGF receptor . |
| 57 | It has been reported that serum cholesterol values are similar in samples from fasting and non-fasting subjects . |
| 58 | It has been reported that blood group O and non-secretor status are associated with duodenal ulcer , however , the magnitude of the association was very weak . |
| 59 | SIR , — It has been reported that HIV-1 antibodies can be detected , with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity , in saliva and in oral mucosal transudate ( OMT ) from HIV-1-infected patients . |
| 60 | In the same way , it has been reported that transformation of S.pombe cells with a linear plasmid bearing Tetrahymena telomeric sequences gives rise to only a very small fraction of transformants containing a plasmid with the correct structure ( 7 ) . |