Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody would 've been drunk that night you see , half past nine at night , thought it was a good trick . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It has been observed that reinfection of the grafted liver by HBV either alone or with HDV is common . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It has been calculated that matter is at present being continually created at the rate of about 50,000 sun masses per second . |
| 6 | The case has been made that neutralisation is potentially attractive only to relatively minor states that by virtue of their strategic position or symbolic political value have become or threaten to become the focal points of contests for control or dominant influence between principal regional or global rivals . |
| 7 | In an effort to reduce overproduction of food , the suggestion has been made that land in lowland Britain be taken out of agricultural production and forested . |
| 8 | In much of the writing on the dependent elderly , the assumption has been made that retirement has become more common at an earlier age because of a reduction in the demand for elderly workers . |
| 9 | The argument has been made that proportionality underlies decisions as diverse as those relating to the legitimacy of planning conditions or local transport policy , disciplinary actions or sex discrimination . |
| 10 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | CONCERN has been expressed that emergency calls are being answered by people who may not understand local accents . |
| 17 | Much concern has been expressed that acid precipitation causes a reduction in forest productivity . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ If artists have the right to fail , Glasgay ! does not , ’ says D'Angelo , whose modest £65,000 budget projection has been kept that way by trying to involve many indigenous grant-aided bodies in the year one programme . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Furthermore , it has been decided that Father should not carry laden trays of any sort for even the shortest distances . |
| 22 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Perhaps the reason is that she has been persuaded that teacher approval , and whatever other more tangible extrinsic rewards may follow , are in short supply and to gain what she needs she must not simply ( or even necessarily ) improve but also get ( or merely stay ) ahead of others . |
| 26 | In the past it has been alleged that consent was often less than genuine , the person believing that he had no option but to allow the police the right to enter the premises and search . |
| 27 | It has been suggested that sister parties within the Socialist International are not allowed to compete with one another . |
| 28 | It has been suggested that alienation from others ( both staff and patients ) on the ward often precedes suicide ( Morgan and Priest 1984 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The mechanism is unknown , although it has been suggested that activation of tumour necrosis factor ( TNF ) may be responsible . |