Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] claimed that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is even claimed that the Catholic Church has always supported women 's civil equality ( a patent untruth ) . |
| 2 | It is widely claimed that English speech tends towards a regular alternation between stronger and weaker , and tends to adjust stress levels to bring this about . |
| 3 | It is also claimed that there has been a great deal of harassment of Serbs and Montenegrins by Albanian nationalists , who hope to drive them out and establish an ‘ ethnically pure ’ Kosovo . |
| 4 | It is also claimed that the molar cusp arrangement is related to cranial flexion , with the protocone being posteriorly placed relative to paracone in klinorhynchous skulls and transversely placed in airorhynchous forms , but this is the reverse of the usually accepted polarity for cusp orientation , with the primitive trigon having the protocone posteriorly placed . |
| 5 | It is also claimed that the irrational and inefficient procedures of pluralistic decision making are inappropriate in foreign and defence policy , where considered rational responses in the national interest are required . |
| 6 | It is also claimed that males walk to the breeding pond , while females walk and hop . |
| 7 | Sintered glass is superheated to provide a myriad of tiny cavities , and it is usually claimed that both aerobic ( nitrite and ammonia converting on the outside of the media ) and anaerobic bacteria ( nitrate converting on the inside of the media ) will thrive in such media . |
| 8 | It is often claimed that hypertension is prevalent in diabetic subjects ( Christlieb , 1982 ) , although the evidence for such a statement is conflicting and by no means universally accepted . |
| 9 | From the practical standpoint , it is often claimed that there is never enough time to write objectives ; that their use removes the spontaneity from teaching ; and finally that from a clinical point of view they are inappropriate , as much of the teaching is ‘ crisis , teaching and can not be foreseen nor planned . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is often claimed that some family firms preferred to avoid being profit-maximisers and take a safe return from past investments . |
| 11 | It is often claimed that a lord on the spot was of more immediate relevance to local men , especially in outlying regions , than the king at Westminster . |
| 12 | Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it . |
| 13 | It is often claimed that children crave discipline because without it they are overloaded with judgements , decisions and opportunities . |
| 14 | It is often claimed that the government of many European States in the generation or more before the French Revolution is distinguished from earlier practice by the existence of something called ‘ Enlightened Despotism ’ . |
| 15 | In vertical mergers it is often claimed that there are important gains to co-ordination and planning . |
| 16 | It is often claimed that a lord on the spot was of more immediate relevance to local men , especially in outlying regions , than the king at Westminster . |
| 17 | Although it is often claimed that the camera does not lie , when using old photographs for historical purposes pupils need to give attention to the processes involved in choosing a subject and taking a photograph . |
| 18 | It is often claimed that a CU represents a movement towards freer trade . |
| 19 | It is often claimed that one of the most conspicuous shortcomings of Keynesian macroeconomics lies in its lack of a coherent theory of aggregate supply . |
| 20 | It is sometimes claimed that female criminal activity is restricted to limited types of crimes . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is sometimes claimed that the Candida derives nourishment from yeasts in food , but this is not the case . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | It is then claimed that a great variety of fundamental facts concerning the structure and social organization of the society can be directly inferred from a close analysis of " the kinship system " in this verbal sense . |