Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , it has been demonstrated that casein kinase II ( CKII ) phosphorylates c-Jun at Thr-231 and Ser-249 both in vitro and in vivo ( 16 ) . |
| 2 | Traditionally it has been assumed that thinking , whether about value or about fact , has to be fully detached from the spontaneous , which engages with it only as emotion biasing judgement . |
| 3 | In tropical countries the importance of maintaining the cold chain is recognised , but in temperate countries it has been given little attention until recently . |
| 4 | Jail term : It has been confirmed that Briton Simon Dunn , 23 , a resident of Kuwait , is in a Baghdad jail serving an eight-year sentence for illegally entering Iraq . |
| 5 | It has been confirmed this week that political parties will no longer get financial subsidies , and the party urgently needs new sources of money . |
| 6 | However , to help centres , students and employers it has been decided that communication , numeracy and information technology should be assessed through modules which have been specifically designed to deliver these core skills . |
| 7 | ‘ Furthermore , it has been decided that Father should not carry laden trays of any sort for even the shortest distances . |
| 8 | One recent line of research has involved the investigation of pottery distributions as a possible indicator of a town 's market area , partly because of its abundance and partly because it has been observed that pottery was not normally dispersed through permanent retail outlets . |
| 9 | It has been observed that reinfection of the grafted liver by HBV either alone or with HDV is common . |
| 10 | It has been observed that sodium restriction tends to be more beneficial in hypertensives who have low plasma renin activity and in whom the aldosterone response to lowering dietary sodium is poor ( Vaughan et al , 1973 ) . |
| 11 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 12 | However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’ |
| 13 | It has been calculated that matter is at present being continually created at the rate of about 50,000 sun masses per second . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It has been suggested that sister parties within the Socialist International are not allowed to compete with one another . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It has been suggested that alienation from others ( both staff and patients ) on the ward often precedes suicide ( Morgan and Priest 1984 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The mechanism is unknown , although it has been suggested that activation of tumour necrosis factor ( TNF ) may be responsible . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that acetylation probably inactivates the drug , as is often the case with hepatic metabolism of drugs . |
| 22 | It has been estimated that tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking account for about three quarters of all oral and pharyngeal cancers [ 4 ] . |
| 23 | 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 . " |
| 24 | It has been reported that serum cholesterol values are similar in samples from fasting and non-fasting subjects . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Also in Germany it has been claimed that cartelisation ( reflecting the later date , and a particular mode , of industrialisation ) gave rise to strongly structured employers ' organisations which attained an authority over their members that was never to exist in the smaller diversified and undercapitalised industrial enterprises in France ( Maurice and Sellier , 1979 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Now if the defendants were bound to charge the plaintiff for the carriage of his goods a less sum , and they refused to carry them except upon payment of a greater sum , as he was compelled to pay the amount demanded , and could not otherwise have his goods carried , the case falls within the principle of several decided cases , in which it has been held that money which a party has been wrongfully compelled to pay under circumstances in which he was unable to resist the imposition , may be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |