Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point has been frequently made that there is no necessary reason why ‘ dog ’ should mean the familiar , faithful , barking , domestic quadruped , which in other languages , gets referred to as chien , Hund , cane , etc . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | While it has been widely recognized that both plural and singular references are possible under many circumstances ( Eschenbach , Habel , Herweg & Rehkämper 1989 ; Garrod & Sanford 1982 ) , the present results reveal just how prevalent singulars can be , even given a grammatical grouping cue like and . |
| 4 | It has been widely accepted that it is in the interests of individual patients , that psychiatric treatment and services should be provided as near as is reasonably practicable to the patient 's home and community … . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has been widely reported that in Italy , for example , whole industries operate outside the officially recorded economy . |
| 7 | In recent years it has been widely suggested that our prisons are in a ‘ state of crisis ’ , a situation made worse by inadequate means for monitoring what the prisons are doing , and a lack of formal safeguards against bad practices . |
| 8 | It has been widely held that normochromic anaemia is indicative of chronic renal failure , but recent epidemiological evidence supports our findings that anaemia is also commonly present in patients with both ARF and AonCRF , and is , therefore , not a helpful discriminant . |
| 9 | It has been well said that to say the same thing in a different age is to say something different . |
| 10 | It has been well said that " the bible is never mastered by the reader who refuses its mastery of him " . |
| 11 | You simply can not assume that because the report has been well received that it will automatically produce action or a decision . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In the inquiries into the deaths of children like Maria Colwell , Jasmine Beckford and Kimberley Carlile ( DHSS , 1982 ; Blom-Cooper , 1986 , 1987 ) the observation has been repeatedly made that children who were known to be ‘ at risk ’ were failed by those given the statutory duty to protect them , because of poor communication , mistakes about knowing who was ( or was not ) responsible for undertaking particular tasks , and , it has to be admitted , professional rivalries and jealousies . |
| 24 | It has been repeatedly reported that smooth muscle antibodies of autoimmune chronic hepatitis are directed to cell actin . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The idea has been carefully propagated that they lead a ‘ middle-class ’ way of life . |
| 30 | It has been previously shown that the expression of integrins is differently diminished in a chain-specific manner in human colorectal cancer . |