Example sentences of "[adv] been claimed [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been claimed that they acted as Rome 's representatives in areas devoid of large towns or cities , or military garrisons , but this hardly equates with the known distribution of most of the British-based officials in or near auxiliary forts . |
| 2 | It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market . |
| 3 | It has often been claimed that especially in large , newer urban estates , residents have little ability to control their personal environment , the state of repair of their flat or its surroundings ( Power 1988 ) . |
| 4 | It has often been claimed that English speech is rhythmical , and that the rhythm is detectable in the regular occurrence of stressed syllables ; of course , it is not suggested that the timing is as regular as a clock — the regularity of occurrence is only relative . |
| 5 | In mitigation of these charges it has sometimes been claimed that ‘ an important by-product of devaluation was an improvement in USA-UK economic relations ’ [ Cairncross , 1985 , 142 ] . |
| 6 | It has sometimes been claimed that the village is a peculiarly English invention . |
| 7 | [ The norm in England and Wales is three years to honours , and in Northern Ireland there is a mixture of three- and four-year courses ; although it has recently been claimed that as many as 40 per cent of all British university undergraduates are on courses lasting four or more years , in modern languages , medicine , engineering , architecture and some business subjects ( Institute of Physics 1988 ) . ] |
| 8 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |