Example sentences of "it [is] sometimes claimed that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes claimed that female criminal activity is restricted to limited types of crimes . |
| 2 | It is sometimes claimed that predator assemblages are of little use in palaeoecological interpretation because of this bias , and because they take prey from areas far removed from the place where the prey remains are deposited by the predator . |
| 3 | It is sometimes claimed that the Candida derives nourishment from yeasts in food , but this is not the case . |
| 4 | It is sometimes claimed that people in many cultures are aware of the ill-effects of inbreeding ( Lindzey , 1967 ) , but nobody , as far as I know , has claimed that such knowledge is universal . |
| 5 | It is sometimes claimed that stylometry enables the scholar to identify the fingerprint of an author , a stylistic criterion , or set of criteria , which can be used to determine with certainty questions of disputed authorship . |
| 6 | In the great amount of talk about the permissive society , it is sometimes claimed that marriage is losing its sanctity because couples live together without being married and the number of illegitimate babies ( those born to unmarried mothers ) is rising . |
| 7 | It is sometimes claimed that there are languages without true tenses , for example Chinese or Yoruba , and this is correct in the sense that such languages may lack L-tenses morphologically marked in the verb , or indeed systematically elsewhere ( Comrie , 1976a : 82ff ; Lyons , 1977a : 678-9 ) . |