Example sentences of "claimed to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critique of what is claimed to be a new , over- positive stereotype of ageing which denies its problems . |
| 2 | Many collars , sprays and powders are only claimed to be effective against fleas . |
| 3 | Thomas Hardy , of an older generation , had implicitly claimed to be , and in the event had proved to be , a profoundly Virgilian poet . |
| 4 | The play would turn on two questions : did the man officially claimed to be Rudolf Hess really hang himself , and was he Hess at all ? |
| 5 | This is the second year in a row that the Opposition leader has claimed to be too busy to talk to the boisterous crew . |
| 6 | The costs of its route are claimed to be about £2.5bn . |
| 7 | His father sold off some copyrights in 1969 when , as Wilson 's lawyers now claim , Brian could not be claimed to be of sound mind . |
| 8 | This was claimed to be the work not of the IRA proper , but of the Irish National Liberation Army , an offshoot of it . |
| 9 | One , the Border-Border Trek , is claimed to be the world 's longest ski trek . |
| 10 | Chill Pads , which maintain chilled products at temperature , are claimed to be longer-lasting than ice and more effective than eutectic plates . |
| 11 | Pollution in such places is claimed to be ten times worse than in the West and the tonnage of sulphur dioxide said to fall every year on the average square kilometre sounds like the equivalent of a heavy snowfall . |
| 12 | However , they found no trace of Liam Shakespeare , whom the terrorists had claimed to be holding hostage . ’ |
| 13 | Thirdly , it is doubtful whether the General Strike could be regarded as the watershed in British labour history , which it is sometimes claimed to be , or that it changed in any significant form the pattern of industrial relations . |
| 14 | The hard-top — wife and mistress combined in one body — was claimed to be the most successful innovation the industry had made in years . |
| 15 | It is a magnificent setting but I do n't like playing music in the open air , and the acoustics there are not perhaps as good as they are claimed to be . |
| 16 | Twelve manors , a vill and four hamlets held by subjects on the west side of the Severn from Newent in the north to Lydney , Alvington and Aylburton in the south were named : they were said to have been afforested by John , and so were claimed to be free of the Forest law . |
| 17 | Where there was success it was claimed to be due to local outlets and relevant local knowledge . |
| 18 | Although supervision was the most common form of disposal in truancy cases under section 1(2) ( e ) ( and may become even more standard practice under the Children Act 1989 ) , the practice adopted in Leeds magistrates ' court of adjourning such proceedings as a threat to the parents to improve the child 's attendance or else the child might be made the subject of an order , was claimed to be more effective as well as reducing overall levels of local juvenile delinquency . |
| 19 | There is , then , no shortage of social science research which is claimed to be necessary if we are to cope with environmental change . |
| 20 | Again the terrible horrors which are claimed to be practised by these decadent punks are not always borne out when subjected to close scrutiny . |
| 21 | The trouble usually arises when a theological theory is claimed to be a concrete principle ( a disease which also afflicts sociologists and psychologists ) or when a scientific theory is held to have disproved a religious statement . |
| 22 | and Eoanthropus or ‘ Piltdown Man , ’ the jaw of an orangutan and the skull of a modern human that were claimed to be the ‘ earliest Englishman ’ . |
| 23 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 24 | It is claimed to be simple for users and hard for learners , to aid readers and to hinder writers , and to speed the reading of the able while condemning the less able to semi-literacy . |
| 25 | Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock is widely claimed to be the first comet discovered by an orbiting observatory — the Infrared Astronomical Satellite , IRAS . |
| 26 | This is claimed to be a discouragement to people who eat too much . |
| 27 | Priestley 's most famous addition in 1774 is widely claimed to be oxygen . |
| 28 | The wars which so frequently rage in the Middle East are almost invariably born of such allegiances and are frequently claimed to be necessary to protect one particular religion or version or derivative of it . |
| 29 | The formal decision on industrialisation had already been made at the Fourteenth Party Congress in 1925 ; therefore the Fifteenth Congress could be claimed to be merely a continuation of previous policies . |
| 30 | Ace have also joined those able to manufacture in 3 ply polyethylene , the chemicals used being claimed to be safer for workers than those used by other companies although long term properties such as UV stability have still to be checked . |