Example sentences of "be claimed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costs of its route are claimed to be about £2.5bn . |
| 2 | Chill Pads , which maintain chilled products at temperature , are claimed to be longer-lasting than ice and more effective than eutectic plates . |
| 3 | It is a magnificent setting but I do n't like playing music in the open air , and the acoustics there are not perhaps as good as they are claimed to be . |
| 4 | Again the terrible horrors which are claimed to be practised by these decadent punks are not always borne out when subjected to close scrutiny . |
| 5 | The new U/V units from Aegean are claimed to be unique as their body casing and other parts are purpose designed and made . |
| 6 | These are claimed to be fatigue-resistant to cope with the high amplitude vibrations that are generated by fast stunters . |
| 7 | The advantages to management of so doing are claimed to be that wage costs are reduced , that the relatively powerful skilled craft union is replaced by the weaker general union , and , perhaps most importantly , management can exercise much tighter control over what happens on the shop-floor . |
| 8 | Lightweight boots with this construction are claimed to be cooler and less sweaty in hot weather , since they breathe so much more freely than leather boots . |
| 9 | Child-safe paint : We have n't found any paints that are claimed to be totally lead-free , but the safe ‘ nursery paints ’ are within the strict British and European limits for the amount of lead permitted in child-safe paints . |
| 10 | Redefinitions of chronology are claimed to be part of the process of improvement of understanding , but may as easily be viewed as an infinite series of alternatives none of which are demonstrably correct unless they are somehow related to the reality of the society in question . |
| 11 | Digital Equipment Corp yesterday unveiled the DECpc MTE line of two 80486-based personal computers , starting at $2,650 and $3,100 : they include a 32-bit EISA bus and VESA VL bus and are claimed to be the highest-performance 80486 machines available ; they are Pentium-upgradable and offers a PCMCIA peripheral card option for data sharing with portable computers having PCMCIA . |
| 12 | The foundations for this new form of client/server computing are claimed to be found in the following System 10 vision . |
| 13 | The foundations for this new form of client-server computing are claimed to be found in the following System 10 vision . |
| 14 | They are claimed to be the first ever to enable system administrators to monitor and manage all their computing resources — computers , networks , and relational database applications — from one central management console . |
| 15 | The products are claimed to be cabable of operating as a client to Novell 's NetWare SAA communications server across Novell and TCP/IP networks . |
| 16 | Bull 's rebadged RS/6000s are claimed to be 5% cheaper than IBM 's — it will add more peripherals to leverage the mid-range market , it said . |
| 17 | Much of the literature on women and education tends to make this kind of distinction , arguing both for greater equality of access for girls and for changes in what are claimed to be inherently sexist curricula and values put over in school . |
| 18 | When the systems of government in Britain , the United States , most of Western Europe and much of the Commonwealth are claimed to be democratic , that rests upon a view that a form of representation of the people prevails in their governmental systems . |
| 19 | Few general texts , but most monographs , use footnotes-either at the bottom of the page or at the back of the chapter/book — The validity of historians ' views are largely determined by the evidence upon which they are claimed to be based . |
| 20 | Controlled term indexing languages are claimed to be more consistent and therefore more efficient , but the many tests on indexing languages have failed to prove this convincingly . |
| 21 | These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Skanform panels are claimed to be ideal for covering large wall areas in environments where surfaces are constantly cleaned and a high degree of hygiene is necessary . |
| 23 | Care should be taken when items are claimed to be damaged ‘ beyond economic repair ’ particularly if the confirmation is received from a firm which has not been heard of previously . |
| 24 | The rooms are claimed to be the largest on offer in London , averaging 50 sq metres . |
| 25 | New immunosuppressive agents have been used recently and are claimed to be beneficial in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 26 | The men are claimed to be dishonest and immoral . |
| 27 | The life-times of Digital Audio Tapes ( DAT ) and Exabyte tapes ( similar to home video cassettes ) are claimed to be longer , but how will they perform over ten , twenty or fifty years ? |
| 28 | A secretly-filmed video details what are claimed to be breaches of regulations meant to protect animals . |
| 29 | I say ‘ perhaps ’ because rhesus monkeys have recently been claimed to be able to make cross-modal associations . |
| 30 | has recently been claimed to be more sensitive than conventional tests , and realiable for quantification of the severity of autonomic nervous system damage . |