Example sentences of "[det] have claimed " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ vehicle ’ is footsteered and some have claimed that it has helped their gybing tremendously .
2 Though Gilbard 's was not quite so irredeemable a hovel as some have claimed , its shortcomings were plentiful enough .
3 With Britain 's long history of civic integration of all but the most marginal social classes ( or at least their male members ) , there was — so some have claimed — less of the cultural marginality affecting significant social groups from which fascism could draw strength ; by extension , there was supposedly more of a commitment to the rules of the ‘ democratic game ’ .
4 Sometimes there is a complete loss of consciousness , particularly , some have claimed , after injection on the left side ( Serafetinides , Hoare and Driver , 1961 ; but see Rosadini and Rossi , 1967 ) .
5 Far from having reached the sunny uplands of history , as some have claimed , therefore , human beings will perhaps have to face , even in the present generation , new trials on a bleak and inhospitable mountainside .
6 The poetry above was no mere dream to be forgotten after the moment of its conception ( or the requirements of an appointment , as some have claimed ! ) .
7 An abrupt change of position by the United States ostensibly wrecked what some have claimed was a promising diplomatic move .
8 But as Robins points out in a later paper , a wide variety of anti-social childhood behaviour predicts a wide variety of adult deviant behaviour , rather than , as some have claimed , particular behaviour being predictive of specific offences ( e.g. conduct disorder predicting property but not person offences ) .
9 Most of them exercise , and a few have claimed , considerable personal power as a consequence ( Kogan and Eyken 1973 ; Neve 1977 ) .
10 There is , therefore , no reason why taxation always encourages people to work less hard rather than harder , as so many have claimed .
11 The death penalty is certainly not a means of saving money , as many have claimed .
12 Many more have claimed him to be a genius of the hidden writings of the past ; an unsurpassed esoteric ; an extraordinary magician who deliberately mixed up his mysterious verses to hide them from weaklings and meddlers .
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