Example sentences of "claims [that] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 This vision lies behind nominalism , which claims that it is the mind 's capacity for creating general words that creates the illusion of generality in the world itself .
2 But , although Jacques claims that it is massively frustrating to watch Julie tripping round the flat half-naked and not be able to touch her , Mr Moore fails to project the necessary dashed and deviant desire .
3 It claims that it is as unhappy as ever with the reforms : the NHS is still short of cash and the reforms are much too bureaucratic .
4 He claims that it is an effective tool both for monitoring established social trends and for identifying new developments at an early stage .
5 He also claims that it is desirable to think ‘ intuitively ’ and not by logical steps , but again logic is the exception not the rule in human thought and all the greatest scientific discoveries have been made by the use of informed intuition , Ornstein believes that the right hemisphere is underdeveloped in Western man and the spiritual growth depends on expanding its activities .
6 The Corporation now claims that it is ‘ working for the community ’ .
7 In the tradition of Advaita or non-Dualism he refers to the soul , ( Ātman ) , and God , ( Brahman ) , as knowers rather than objects of knowledge and claims that it is not possible for mortal beings by the use of reason alone to know the knower of knowing .
8 Double glazing may discourage intrusion , but claims that it is burglar-proof are rather exaggerated .
9 Each picks out a different type of factor and claims that it is the key to a causal understanding of the Industrial Revolution ; and in doing so , each relies on an undefended account of the assumptions that need to be embodied in satisfactory explanations .
10 Memorex Telex NV 's Peripherals Group in Milpitas , California has made good on its promise to offer a version of its 5100 Automated Tape Library for IBM Corp AS/400 9406 processors , and claims that it is the first such library in the AS/400 market .
11 Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction .
12 For that reason , when Ms Tyson claims that it is a ‘ terrible exaggeration ’ to say that her approach amounts to managed trade , traditional free-traders , wedded to the advantages of multilateralism , will wonder what else it could be called .
13 He claims that it is never a mere tautology that what has some such property is good , but always a substantial claim in ethics .
14 Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 .
15 The company claims that it is the first graphical tool set specifically designed to make C++ code re-use a practical reality .
16 However , the C compiler now has to be bought separately as it is no longer to be bundled with Solaris : SunPro claims that it is no longer a necessary item for customers .
17 AEG AG 's Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based Modular Computer Systems Inc reports that X/Open Co Ltd has completed the certification of its Real/IX real-time Unix operating system , and claims that it is the first real-time Unix to be registered with X/Open under its test and verification programme for open systems .
18 ModComp , an AEG AG subsidiary , claims that it is possible to re-use some of the routines of previous real-time applications by recompiling and modifying them .
19 Stalinism posed a crisis for Marxism from which it could , in a sense , be said never to have recovered , the conundrum being that if Marxism is true , as it claims that it is , how did the first Marxist state end up as Stalinist ?
20 The government claims that it is tackling this issue through its Making Belfast Work programme .
21 So , while the Government claims that it is targeting help on those in greatest need , it is simultaneously increasing the numbers caught , in the Government 's terminology , in a ‘ dependency culture ’ .
22 In commentary on this principle Braverman claims that it is
23 Retributivism claims that it is in some way morally right to return evil for evil , that two wrongs can somehow make a right .
24 Perkins also claims that it is making a segment virtue out of necessity .
25 Windows 3.1 is much better in this respect and claims that it is safe to carry on after killing an application but I personally would still prefer to re-start Windows .
26 He claims that it 's only ‘ half a solution ’ because most companies run one or two programs that are n't on the Wabi can-run list .
27 He admits that the concept of Wabi is alluring to the vendor but then damningly turns and claims that it 's a solution to the problems of the vendor community , not those of the customers ' .
28 One might say that it claims that it 's presently raining is a real state of affairs .
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