Example sentences of "[pron] might be claimed that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be claimed that studying routine policing in Northern Ireland avoids the real issue of policing in the province and that attention ought to be addressed to those sections of the RUC which are responsible for what Turk ( 1982 ) calls ‘ political policing ’ and Brodeur ( 1983 ) ‘ high policing ’ , such as the Special Branch , the mobile support units , which are in effect riot police , or the various surveillance units like E4A . |
| 2 | Does this mean that God is ‘ not in time ’ — an example of the way of negation — or does it , as some have said , mean that all times are somehow ‘ present ’ to God , in which case it might be claimed that God possesses a kind of temporal omnipresence ? |
| 3 | Perhaps it might be claimed that the major important variables in measuring population growth rates and their causes are technically easier than those measuring soil erosion rates and their causes . |
| 4 | For though it might be claimed that such an education would help a child to see more in his immediate environment , and understand it better , yet it would also greatly diminish his chances of going beyond that environment . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it had broken the thread by which the country had been tied to France and although it might be claimed that , as in Burma during the war or in Indonesia at the end of the war , it was a spurious independence and part of Japanese mischief making , nevertheless Vietnam was now in a formal sense independent if not exactly free . |
| 6 | Certainly the two definitions ( ( 9 ) and ( 12 ) ) are not far apart ; but it might be claimed that at least the one that focuses on the nature of context makes clear that one of the goals of a pragmatic theory should be to explicate that nature . |
| 7 | As an example , it might be claimed that in ‘ hutch ’ was different ( perhaps in having shorter duration ) from in ‘ hush ’ or ‘ Welsh ’ , ; or it might be claimed that the place of articulation of in ‘ watch apes ’ is different from that of in ‘ what shapes ’ . |
| 8 | As an example , it might be claimed that in ‘ hutch ’ was different ( perhaps in having shorter duration ) from in ‘ hush ’ or ‘ Welsh ’ , ; or it might be claimed that the place of articulation of in ‘ watch apes ’ is different from that of in ‘ what shapes ’ . |