Example sentences of "it [is] claimed that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's claimed that the secret GCHQ listening centre is even trawling through personal phone calls abroad in its search for useful information . |
| 2 | It 's claimed that the laser-engraved cards are fraud-proof at a cost of £1.20 each to produce , compared with 25p for the old cards It 's an investment that the industry hopes will beat the fraudsters hands down . |
| 3 | It is claimed that the new levels of pesticide do not pose a risk to health . |
| 4 | In the same report ( UNEP 1982 : 265 ) , it is claimed that the total area being reclaimed by irrigation is probably about the same as is being abandoned through salinisation , alkalinisation and water-logging , and that these problems account for the loss of about 2–3 million ha of the world 's best agricultural land each year . |
| 5 | Firstly , it is claimed that the economic power associated with the ownership of property does not threaten liberty because it is not concentrated in the hands of an individual or small group of individuals . |
| 6 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |
| 7 | Frequently it is claimed that the very nature of social psychology will be changed by the insights of social representation theory . |