Example sentences of "be claimed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father sold off some copyrights in 1969 when , as Wilson 's lawyers now claim , Brian could not be claimed to be of sound mind . |
| 2 | The formal decision on industrialisation had already been made at the Fourteenth Party Congress in 1925 ; therefore the Fifteenth Congress could be claimed to be merely a continuation of previous policies . |
| 3 | While it certainly can not be claimed to be a panacea for all ills , and no system of therapeutics has yet turned out to be that , it is an approach which I would not like to be without . |
| 4 | So , while regression can not be claimed to be the be-all and end-all of therapeutic treatment , it is certainly an important stage . |
| 5 | The fact that Sir William Keith and a handful of others had surreptitiously managed to enter the town could by no means be claimed to be a relief and succour for the besieged . |
| 6 | At West Stow , the six-post array could be claimed to be the earlier form . |
| 7 | In short , nothing that is in the process of development or change , strictly speaking , can be claimed to be numerically the same as long as this process lasts , for existents are individuated only by their full life-cycles . |
| 8 | Finally , we know that ( A believes that ) B has been to A's present location before because of the word again : this can be claimed to be a pragmatic rather than a semantic implication just because , unlike semantic implications , those associated with again are not normally negated by the negation of the main verb . |