Example sentences of "been claimed [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been claimed that Mr Gooderham may have had financial problems . |
| 2 | It has been claimed that Margaret saw the tunnel as some sort of monument to her and her period of government . |
| 3 | It has been claimed that the existence of the Roman roads enabled the early Christian Church to spread the Gospel throughout the European area and beyond . |
| 4 | It may also expose other structural defects related to mental handicap , and it has been claimed that the latest , most sophisticated equipment can pick up a wide range of foetal abnormalities if the technicians operating the machines are sufficiently trained . |
| 5 | It has been claimed that modern-day pygmies of Malaysia and the Philippines or the Indians of Central America could have left similar prints . |
| 6 | It has been claimed that the vivid pattern of black and white stripes creates a dazzle effect , rather like the Op Art paintings of Bridget Riley and that this disconcerts the attacking predator at close quarters . |
| 7 | It has been claimed that a third brother settled in America and that one of his descendants founded the internationally known Piper Aircraft Corporation but research has shown this to be false . |
| 8 | It has been claimed that criminals , sportsmen and senior government officials are the most conservative groups in every country . |
| 9 | However it has been claimed that Markov probabilities do not give significant reductions in word error rate , and can even lead to an increased error rate ( Riseman and Ehrich , 1971 ; Riseman and Hanson , 1974 ; Hanson , Riseman and Fisher , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | It has been claimed that company-level bargaining has advantages over , and is presumptively more efficient than , industry-wide bargaining in that wages can be related directly to the firm 's performance , profitability and capacity to pay ( Ulman , 1974a ) . |
| 11 | In mitigation of these charges it has sometimes been claimed that ‘ an important by-product of devaluation was an improvement in USA-UK economic relations ’ [ Cairncross , 1985 , 142 ] . |
| 12 | The commander of a ship , however , had additional perquisites which added to the value of his appointment , for it has been claimed that he could make as much as £1,500 in a single voyage from the fares paid by passengers , while he even had the right to sell for his own profit at the end of the voyage the dunnage , that is the bamboos and rattans employed to keep the cargo from shifting . |
| 13 | It has been claimed that the ‘ purge ’ occurred at the point at which Sir Theobald Mathew , a devout Catholic , was appointed as Director of Public Prosecutions in 1944 . |
| 14 | It has been claimed that some will have to choose between keeping warm and having enough to eat . |
| 15 | It has been claimed that binoculars will show it , but again I must admit failure . |
| 16 | Increasingly , it has been claimed that people who work in government , industry , the social services , etc. , ought to have some sort of specialist knowledge of society on the grounds that they will be better equipped to meet the demands of their work . |
| 17 | It has often been claimed that especially in large , newer urban estates , residents have little ability to control their personal environment , the state of repair of their flat or its surroundings ( Power 1988 ) . |
| 18 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | [ The norm in England and Wales is three years to honours , and in Northern Ireland there is a mixture of three- and four-year courses ; although it has recently been claimed that as many as 40 per cent of all British university undergraduates are on courses lasting four or more years , in modern languages , medicine , engineering , architecture and some business subjects ( Institute of Physics 1988 ) . ] |
| 20 | The influence of Leavis is such that it has been claimed that : |
| 21 | It has been claimed that the confused clutter of furnishings and knick-knacks commonly associated with the Victorians became fashionable only after the 1870s ; but that impression , if only by contrast with the Regency , is certainly made upon novelists at an earlier date . |
| 22 | Although it has been claimed that the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher had no carefully thought-through strategy to deal with the unions when it came into office , but rather proceeded pragmatically ( Roberts , 1989 ) , nevertheless ( Young , 1990 , p. 353 ) : |
| 23 | It has sometimes been claimed that the village is a peculiarly English invention . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , it has been claimed that the problems of recreation have been overstated and Fitton ( 1979 , 57 ) has argued that : ‘ There has been a tendency to view recreation in the countryside as a problem rather than a welcome opportunity for people to enjoy themselves ’ . |
| 25 | It has been claimed that fundholding ‘ has revealed rather than created these variations . ’ |
| 26 | 3 In addition to providing for strong and responsible government it has been claimed that the system provides for moderate government because the two parties in a two-party system must strive to occupy the middle ground where the votes lie thickest and this obliges them to control their extremists who might dissuade the middling voters from giving their support . |
| 27 | It has been claimed that automatic crystallisation is unfair in the sense that it could prejudice subsequent chargees who do not know , and indeed who may have no way of knowing , that the charge has crystallised . |
| 28 | It has been claimed that there are further situations in which consent will be irrelevant to a prosecution under Categories 1 and 2 . |
| 29 | It has been claimed that interference has disrupted train signals , and electronic equipment from Nintendo Gameboys to video cameras has confused aircraft flight management computers . |
| 30 | It has also been claimed that they acted as Rome 's representatives in areas devoid of large towns or cities , or military garrisons , but this hardly equates with the known distribution of most of the British-based officials in or near auxiliary forts . |