Example sentences of "it [verb] be [verb] [that] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already it has been demonstrated that groundwater abstraction is high relative to the theoretical renewable resource , and that much of the groundwater is contaminated with nitrate . |
| 2 | It has been noted that CD must here be loosely recalling Dryden 's translation of the poem ( 1697 ) , because in that version Aeneas is made to say , after telling how he saw his father Priam slain , ‘ My hair with horror stood ’ , but there is no corresponding expression in the original Latin . |
| 3 | It has been said that Vial was quite unsuited for the post of founding Professor . |
| 4 | It has been said that regard must be had to the nature of the contract broken , the position of the parties to the contract , the grounds for the breach , the means employed to procure it , the relation of the person procuring it to the person who breaks the contract , and the object of the person procuring the breach . |
| 5 | In view of the hardships endured by many peasants , even at times when they were making some gains at the expense of their lords , it is hardly surprising that there were outbreaks of discontent , some of which took violent forms — indeed it has been said that peasant movements were as much a part of seigneurial society as strikes are of large-scale capitalism . |
| 6 | In the past half century or so it has been discovered that water is a very strange substance indeed , exhibiting many anomalous and unexpected characteristics , some of which have already been mentioned in Chapter 7 . |
| 7 | Thus , it has been argued that photography is the quintessential surrealist art form , that photographs are like ‘ death masks ’ , like footprints in the sense of being ‘ imprints of the real ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 110 ) . |
| 8 | Again , it has been argued that colour contrast and other factors may be important because red contrasts well with green and many hummingbird plants with bluish leaves have yellow flowers , the complementary colour . |
| 9 | However it has been argued that concern about social dumping is misplaced . |
| 10 | Instead , it has been argued that exposure to complex sentences is necessary so that the child can adequately test inferences about the relationship between grammatical form and meaning ( Gleitman et al . |
| 11 | Although it has been argued that nectar might contain repellents to ants that otherwise predominate on sugary substrates in the tropics , it is found that ants will take this nectar when it is presented to them , though the floral parts of such flowers may be less palatable . |
| 12 | It has been argued that differentiation in refugia is less marked in trees than it is in insects or birds , because of their different life spans , but such theory provides an explanation for the now sympatric occurrence of 12 species of Eschweilera ( Lecythidaceae ) near Manaus . |
| 13 | On the basis of certain assumptions about the chemical heterogeneity of the mantle and a postulated marked increase in viscosity with depth , it has been argued that convection would be confined to the asthenosphere , that is to a maximum depth of about 300 km ( Fig. 2.1 7(A) ) . |
| 14 | As some plates have horizontal dimensions of thousands of kilometres it has been argued that convection cells of equivalent horizontal and vertical dimensions would be required to move them . |
| 15 | It has been argued that supply is more likely to show a positive response to relative price increases which are thought to be temporary than those that are thought to be permanent . |
| 16 | It has been argued that compression of the abdomen increases the ‘ pinchcock ’ effect of the angular incisura and so it is possible that this manoeuvre could actually prevent reflux in some patients . |
| 17 | It has been argued that diesel takes a much smaller amount of process heat to refine , and is therefore more environmentally considerate all round . |
| 18 | It has been argued that death-feigning in natural circumstances is of comparatively little use and far too risky to become a major defence strategy . |
| 19 | For the past decade , at least , it has been recognised that quality exists above and beyond any guide 's objective star rating . |
| 20 | ‘ Principally , ’ I continued , ‘ it has been felt that Father should no longer be asked to wait at table , whether or not guests are present . ’ |
| 21 | It has been proved that creativity is a new development of the mind that can be cultivated . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that expert systems might be ‘ a solution looking for a problem ’ . |
| 23 | Although , in its pure form , the bureaucracy concept can not be applied fully to schools , it has been suggested that bureaucratisation is one of the most significant educational developments of the times . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that hyperglycaemia reduces gastrointestinal function through inhibition of the vagal cholinergic system . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that diarrhoea reflects malabsorption because of either infiltration of the mucosa by inflammatory cells and luminal narrowing of the submucosal arterioles , or intestinal bacterial overgrowth . |
| 26 | It has been suggested that sleep is a time when brain activity changes from one of acquiring , interpreting , and acting upon information obtained from the environment to one of consolidating daytime memories and experience . |
| 27 | A raised basal and exaggerated meal stimulated gastrin response have been noted in infected duodenal ulcer patients and it has been suggested that hypergastrinaemia is one mechanism whereby H pylori contributes to the ulcer diathesis . |
| 28 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 29 | It has been suggested that alkaloid level fluctuations may affect the feeding patterns of orang-utans through the day . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that literacy levels in these weaving villages were higher than they were to be in the industrial towns of south Lancashire a generation later . |