Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [be] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 ‘ However much analogy may lead us to conjecture the universal prevalence of law and orderly sequence , it has been acutely remarked that the phenomena which are most immediately important to the life and welfare of man are precisely those which he has never been , and probably never will be , able to reduce to a scientific calculation .
2 But perhaps worst of all , it has been clearly demonstrated that while a change in attitudes to a brand or product can precede a purchase of that brand , it can equally well follow the purchase : does attitude change influence a purchase , or does it merely result from it ? — since people often feel the need to justify a purchase , especially a major purchase , after they have made it .
3 In the United States it has been clearly demonstrated that they do .
4 However , the latter point fails to take account of the fact that rape is committed even if there is no ejaculation , and even if the woman is infertile , and it has been strongly argued that ‘ penetration involving the penis , vagina or anus is perceived differently and regarded more seriously than other forms of penetration ’ .
5 It has been strongly argued that the interpretation is mistaken .
6 It has been previously shown that the expression of integrins is differently diminished in a chain-specific manner in human colorectal cancer .
7 It has been previously shown that linear plasmids bearing Tetrahymena telomeric sequences are able to replicate autonomously in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina ( 1 ) .
8 Although it has been traditionally assumed that Labour Governments are more susceptible to defeat in the Lords than Conservative administrations , Brazier concludes that the Lords have been surprisingly even-handed in dealing out legislative defeats .
9 It has been traditionally supposed that the language presented to learners should be simplified in some way for easy access and acquisition .
10 It has been well said that to say the same thing in a different age is to say something different .
11 It has been well said that " the bible is never mastered by the reader who refuses its mastery of him " .
12 It has been well observed that classical revivals tend to be of short duration .
13 It has been well argued that the payment having been voluntary , it can not be recovered back in an action for money had and received .
14 It has been well argued that the payment having been voluntary , it can not be recovered back in an action for money had and received .
15 It has been well argued that the development of the Atlantic began as far back as Precambrian times .
16 It has been well argued that the great procession , headed by the Host and including the orders of the Church and social guilds , interrupted by the plays performed by the guild members reminding followers of the archetypal story of God 's plan of salvation from the Creation to the Last Judgement , provided opportunity for participating in that sense of unity beyond division which is the heart of Christian belief , and which underpins the social value put on the more isolated lives of contemplatives .
17 And it has been well established that some animals , such as pigs , are capable of completely consuming animal bones , along with other kitchen waste , so that even the sample of animal bones from a site may not give a true picture of diet .
18 Using a tachistoscope and testing normal subjects it has been repeatedly shown that letters and words presented in the right visual field are more easily identified than the same stimuli presented in the left visual field .
19 Using a tachistoscope and testing normal subjects it has been repeatedly shown that letters and words presented in the right visual field are more easily identified than the same stimuli presented in the left visual field .
20 It has been repeatedly reported that smooth muscle antibodies of autoimmune chronic hepatitis are directed to cell actin .
21 It has been plausibly argued that the cutting of the folds ( which is very shallow ) was done during a retouching of the colour ( something which must have been a regular operation ; on colour see below , p. 28 ) .
22 It has been plausibly argued that this , perhaps too male-centred explanation , begs the question of what led to the increasing mental complexity necessary for hominid evolution in the first place , particularly when the older ancestors seem to have been tropical forest primary consumers .
23 The figures are left in the orange colour of the clay , the background painted in round them in the shiny black : a purely decorative variation ; and it has been plausibly suggested that the strange ‘ negative ’ idea was inspired by the custom of washing the background of marble reliefs with a blue or red against which the mainly white figures were left standing out .
24 The document authorizes an unusually large payment , and it has been plausibly conjectured that it was intended to reimburse him for expenses connected with the ‘ impressing ’ of choirboys for the chapel , which had been ordered in 1440 .
25 It has been effectively argued that live performance before an audience can be the most crucial part of a popular musician 's growth as an artist .
26 It has been tentatively suggested that they , together possibly with their timber predecessors , formed part of a military enclave within the civilian town , thus perhaps resembling Corbridge ( see p. 60 ) with its two military arsenals .
27 It has been generally accepted that adenomatous polyps develop in the second and third decade with most affected untreated subjects developing a colorectal carcinoma by the age of 40 years .
28 In recent years it has been generally held that the backwash down the beach contributes to the breaking of the next wave , becomes involved in it and is returned with the swash , so that there is no continuous undertow transferring water out beyond the breaker zone .
29 It has been frequently noted that two separate streams run through the history of the development of African primary school curricula in the last fifty years of the colonial period .
30 However , there have been changes of contrast and changes of detail on time scales from years to days , and for at least 100 years it has been widely realized that we are seeing the tops of richly coloured clouds that cover the entire planet .
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