Example sentences of "asserts [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example Barthes 's account of French amateur wrestling asserts that it is not a contest but a spectacle and so the outcome ( who wins ) is not a significant point in the event . |
| 2 | Eliot asserts that it is perfectly possible to claim ‘ that primitive man acted in a certain way and then found a reason for it ’ . |
| 3 | Avoiding the perennial philosophical question concerning what educational ends are most worthwhile , and what constitutes educational quality , he asserts that it is perfectly possible for teachers to agree ‘ working objectives ’ that can provide the focus for the development of an evaluation technology . |
| 4 | The National Gallery asserts that it was always the intention of Kramar to donate the collection in its entirety to the Czechoslovak State . |
| 5 | Now , Woolwich having won that litigation , the revenue asserts that it was never under any obligation to repay the money , and that it in fact repaid it only as a matter of grace . |
| 6 | Offe stresses the role of the state as a crisis manager and asserts that there is today a ‘ crisis of crisis management ’ itself which derives from the contradictions inherent in the state 's efforts to compensate for failures in market mechanisms without challenging the private ownership of the means of production and the primacy of market mechanisms . |