Example sentences of "claiming that it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claiming that it is merely cleaning up a technicality , the government , in clause 50 of the current finance bill , is cheerily trying to rewrite the law , retroactively , five years after the event . |
| 2 | Saunders partly deflects criticism of this sort by putting forward the dual state thesis as an ‘ ideal-type ’ , claiming that it is a research strategy rather than an account of reality , and that its aim is to develop a framework which suggests research questions and which can be evaluated analytically but not empirically . |
| 3 | Miller himself argues for his view that the distinction between holist and individualist explanations marks the boundary between science and non-science by claiming that it is an established feature of social scientific practice . |
| 4 | In parts of Provence , though , farmers still keep green tree frogs under glass bells so that their croaking can warn of rain , and many people keep a piece of dried seaweed , claiming that it is as accurate as the human meteorologist 's forecast . |
| 5 | These kinds of account , which span the blurred borderland between social psychology and sociology , in effect justify the ‘ abnormality ’ of disabled people by claiming that it is inevitable . |