Example sentences of "as is [adv] claim " in BNC.
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| 1 | This greatly simplifies what can be a fiddly and time-consuming process , and ( as is frequently claimed to justify many forms of automation ) frees human personnel for more interesting and productive work . |
| 2 | Therapeutic practice can not , so it is argued , itself be used to verify the claims of psychoanalytic theories , as is often claimed by analysts . |
| 3 | But her novels are not nearly so remote from the realities of her time as is often claimed . |
| 4 | Back in Britain , the performance of the four regional companies — the Great Western , the Southern , the London Midland & Scottish and the London & North Eastern — that were nationalised in 1948 was by no means as dismal as is sometimes claimed . |
| 5 | The most virulent of all jellyfish is not , as is usually claimed , the large Portuguese man-o'-war , but the sea wasp or box jelly commonly found off the shores of Australia . |