Example sentences of "it [be] claimed that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only by engaging in extreme forms of economic casuistry can it be claimed that such things can be supplied satisfactorily without the agency of government at either national or local level . |
| 2 | So rather than pay nine pounds ninety pence it 's claimed that many lorry drivers take a detour through gloucester , then heading back down the A48 through Newhnam . |
| 3 | IT 'S claimed that next to losing a spouse , moving house is one of the most stressful things you 're likely to go through . |
| 4 | Critchley 's party-piece has the rounded phrasing , the well-turned punchline of frequent rehearsal ( it 's claimed that some of his fans can recite it back to him ) , but it captures the tone of the Tories in those days perfectly . |
| 5 | It 's claimed that clearing Dickens and Jones in Milton Keynes on a busy pre-Christmas shopping day cost the firm one hundred thousand pounds in lost business . |
| 6 | It is claimed that new subjects can frequently be accommodated without addition to the scheme , by a judicious deployment of existing facets . |
| 7 | It is claimed that such systems satisfy heating requirements at a reasonable cost . |
| 8 | It is claimed that one litre should support no less than 50 fish of one foot or less with its surface area of 800 square metres . |
| 9 | It is claimed that one of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's songs is playing somewhere in the world every minute of the day . |
| 10 | Although this seems equitable , it is claimed that imputed income is not an everyday concept so that the tax of income that is not a money flow would be politically unpopular as it would have to be paid from the working partner 's income . |
| 11 | Interestingly , it is claimed that higher overall returns can be gained from sylvopastoral systems involving poultry than from either conventional free range poultry keeping or farm forestry . |
| 12 | It is claimed that economic power is constrained by the competitive market . |
| 13 | It is claimed that all the Monroe features are natural and lifelike because ‘ a microcomputer-controlled air compressor regulates all her expressions ’ . |
| 14 | For example in aerospace it is claimed that European collaboration allows advanced research to be undertaken which would be too expensive on a national basis . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | By using this approach it is claimed that important management processes are facilitated . |
| 17 | It is claimed that psychiatric diseases such as manic depression or schizophrenia , and also psychological disablements such as low intelligence , are somehow inherited . |
| 18 | It is claimed that this method of control is the most simple . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is claimed that high taxation rates reduce personal savings which are an essential ingredient in the moral character of a nation and which are also an important source of funding for investment in private industry . |
| 21 | At the other extreme was a father and son dairy farm where it was claimed that each was working 110 hours per week . |
| 22 | During the Christmas revolution , it was claimed that Arab guerrillas in training camps formed the core of the last defenders of Ceauşescu 's regime . |
| 23 | Indeed , it was claimed that such ‘ a wide and vague expression as ‘ State maintenance ’ would excite great prejudice and alarm ’ ( Report , 1905 , p. 7 ) . |
| 24 | Furthermore as nationalised industries were intended to operate in the ‘ national interest ’ , it was claimed that this should lead to improved industrial relations , as the strife between labour and capital , associated with capitalist ownership , was reduced . |
| 25 | It was claimed that this system allowed a lighter wing structure , and it was invented by a Swiss-born engineer , H J Stieher , who had worked for Wm Beardmore & Co . |
| 26 | It was claimed that this gives an improved warmth to weight ratio of around 25 per cent and decreased bulk . |
| 27 | It was claimed that this was caused by the greater number of convictions , and the speed at which the increase took place , rather than from any perceptible changes in sentencing practice . |
| 28 | It was claimed that this compromise represented significant progress since a May 13 EFTA-EC meeting in Brussels , when the main dispute had been over Norwegian and Icelandic reluctance to allow EC countries improved access to fish in their waters . |
| 29 | When the 1970s arrived , it was claimed that nuclear stations actually were producing electricity which was 35 per cent cheaper than coal and 50 per cent cheaper than oil . |
| 30 | It was claimed that most Hungarian citizens were either not informed of how to purchase the shares or could not afford to do so , and that the bulk of the issue had gone to former party bosses or to foreign institutions . |