Example sentences of "it have been [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In this connection , it has been pointed out that : |
| 5 | It has been pointed out ( Akehurst and Drummond , 1989 ) that , while managers take some of the decisions controlling resource allocation , such as the nature of the ‘ hotel ’ facilities in hospitals , the major resource allocators are the doctors . |
| 6 | However , it has been pointed out by Dr. B. Leadbeater , that great care must be taken before these formulae are used to determine the efficiency of dilution for abatement of odour nuisance , for in order to achieve concentrations below the threshold detection levels some odorants would need diluting by a factor in order of 6,000 , so unless very high chimneys are contemplated this method only provides a limited answer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It has been pointed out ( by Anthony Storr and Joel Kovel : see Reading List ) that Adler 's influence has been considerable but under-rated . |
| 12 | However , it has been pointed out — most recently by Stan Gooch in his Cities of Dreams ( 1989 ) — that this is to take a rather narrow view of what we mean by civilization . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It has been pointed out by feminists that the tradition which depends upon this demarcation line fails to give a satisfactory account of conflicts that arise in the private sphere . |
| 22 | It has been pointed out by Ochshorn that Jesus ' message is evidently addressed basically to men . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It has been pointed out , for instance , that in 1983 the largest 70 British manufacturing multinationals had a foreign output of around £100 billion , whereas their home production was £70 billion . |
| 26 | It has been pointed out that high levels of welfare accompany prosperity as cause as well as effect . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It has been pointed out above that historically the law of rape was exclusively concerned with the protection of virginity . |
| 30 | The Scurvy/Durfey rhyme is very deliberately established — and hard to forget , once it has been pointed out . |