Example sentences of "it [is] claimed that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 IT 'S claimed that next to losing a spouse , moving house is one of the most stressful things you 're likely to go through .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It is claimed that new subjects can frequently be accommodated without addition to the scheme , by a judicious deployment of existing facets .
6 It is claimed that such systems satisfy heating requirements at a reasonable cost .
7 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 .
8 It is claimed that one of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's songs is playing somewhere in the world every minute of the day .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 It is claimed that economic power is constrained by the competitive market .
12 It is claimed that all the Monroe features are natural and lifelike because ‘ a microcomputer-controlled air compressor regulates all her expressions ’ .
13 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 .
14 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 ) .
15 By using this approach it is claimed that important management processes are facilitated .
16 It is claimed that psychiatric diseases such as manic depression or schizophrenia , and also psychological disablements such as low intelligence , are somehow inherited .
17 It is claimed that this method of control is the most simple .
18 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 .
19 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 .
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