Example sentences of "it be [adv] claim that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also claimed that males walk to the breeding pond , while females walk and hop . |
| 2 | Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it . |
| 3 | It is often claimed that hypertension is prevalent in diabetic subjects ( Christlieb , 1982 ) , although the evidence for such a statement is conflicting and by no means universally accepted . |
| 4 | It is often claimed that children crave discipline because without it they are overloaded with judgements , decisions and opportunities . |
| 5 | It is sometimes claimed that stylometry enables the scholar to identify the fingerprint of an author , a stylistic criterion , or set of criteria , which can be used to determine with certainty questions of disputed authorship . |
| 6 | In the great amount of talk about the permissive society , it is sometimes claimed that marriage is losing its sanctity because couples live together without being married and the number of illegitimate babies ( those born to unmarried mothers ) is rising . |
| 7 | It is sometimes claimed that people in many cultures are aware of the ill-effects of inbreeding ( Lindzey , 1967 ) , but nobody , as far as I know , has claimed that such knowledge is universal . |
| 8 | It is sometimes claimed that predator assemblages are of little use in palaeoecological interpretation because of this bias , and because they take prey from areas far removed from the place where the prey remains are deposited by the predator . |
| 9 | However , it was also claimed that feminism and gender issues were not treated seriously by the senior management . |
| 10 | It was also claimed that Mr Deans had been responsible for the non-payment of police bills which had led to a threat of police cover being withdrawn for home matches . |
| 11 | In the trial , which opened in Athens on March 11 , it was also claimed that Papandreou had diverted public funds into the Bank of Crete and accepted bribes in the form of interest generated . |
| 12 | It was also claimed that files were being handed to the Soviet authorities thus countering efforts by a citizen 's committee to supervise the dismantling of the Stasi . |
| 13 | But in yesterday 's papers it was widely claimed that friends of the Prince of Wales are behind a campaign of vilification . |