Example sentences of "[conj] it be claim [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other extreme was a father and son dairy farm where it was claimed that each was working 110 hours per week . |
| 2 | It is also highly doubtful that this character state can be identified in the broken and distorted partial skulls of Dryopithecus and Graecopithecus , although it is claimed that the former is klinorhynchous because of the brow ridge development . |
| 3 | Although it is claimed that these cases indicate an impairment in executing symbolic gestures it may in fact be the case that this aspect of their difficulty is secondary to a deficit in dealing with sequences of movements in general , the apparent linguistic defect deriving from this ( Kimura , Battison and Lubert , 1976 ) . |
| 4 | Sadly there is little documentary evidence relating to early introductions to Britain , although it is claimed that the Romans brought the walnut and sweet chestnut while remains or myrtle , bay and rosemary have been found on the sites of Roman villas , suggesting that these Mediterranean shrubs were cultivated in their gardens . |
| 5 | Cost savings have been made in levels of management , although it is claimed that only around 50 jobs have gone . |
| 6 | The same interests have dominated his 10 years at Westminster , and it is claimed that he has redistributed more than £60 million from the taxpayer to the poor by challenging the DHSS in test cases . |
| 7 | Joseph II in the 1780s attached great importance to its work ( not surprisingly for a ruler of his suspicious and autocratic temperament ) and it was claimed that in the single year 1780 – 81 alone no fewer than fifteen foreign diplomatic cyphers were broken in Vienna . |
| 8 | And it was claimed as powerful , fresh , original , vigorous and truthful . |
| 9 | If it is claimed that a poetics of textual production and reflexivity replaces mimetic strategies of any kind , then the early nouveau roman can also be made to conform to this new postmodern aesthetic . |
| 10 | If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour . |
| 11 | Clearly , there is an element of political value judgment in such decisions : in 1921 a judge held that reasonable citizens would not think less of a trade unionist if it were claimed that he had worked during a strike : some juries might reach a different decision today . |
| 12 | The idea that people can be sensitive to natural gas is a contentious one , but it is claimed that some people have made dramatic recoveries after removing the gas supply from their house . |
| 13 | And they could have continued to pay £1 a year for the next 21 years but it is claimed that they failed to act in time . |
| 14 | There had been plans to introduce a separate currency , in the form of Soviet roubles stamped with a letter " U " ( Ukraine ) for purchasing basic goods , but it was claimed that the Soviet authorities had thwarted the plans at the last minute , forcing the reintroduction of coupons instead . |
| 15 | In the courts political questions may come before the judges because the matter is already in public controversy , like race or industrial relations ; or because it is claimed that a public authority has exceeded its powers ; or because the matter concerns the activities of the police ; or because the matter impinges on the individual rights of citizens , affecting their freedom or their property . |
| 16 | LDOCE is of particular interest , since it is claimed that its entries are defined using a controlled vocabulary of around 2,000 words , and that the entries have a simple and regular syntax [ Boguraev & briscoe , 1989 ] . |
| 17 | Rumours of such ‘ snuff ’ movies had been carefully fostered in the New York Press with accounts of private screenings at Mafia parties , and when it was claimed that one had been acquired for public exhibition , it was advertised with the slogan : ‘ Blood Money , the film that could only be made in South America … where Life is CHEAP ! ’ |