Example sentences of "be claimed [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been claimed that the vivid pattern of black and white stripes creates a dazzle effect , rather like the Op Art paintings of Bridget Riley and that this disconcerts the attacking predator at close quarters . |
| 2 | It has been claimed that the confused clutter of furnishings and knick-knacks commonly associated with the Victorians became fashionable only after the 1870s ; but that impression , if only by contrast with the Regency , is certainly made upon novelists at an earlier date . |
| 3 | Although it has been claimed that the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher had no carefully thought-through strategy to deal with the unions when it came into office , but rather proceeded pragmatically ( Roberts , 1989 ) , nevertheless ( Young , 1990 , p. 353 ) : |
| 4 | Firstly , it is claimed that the economic power associated with the ownership of property does not threaten liberty because it is not concentrated in the hands of an individual or small group of individuals . |
| 5 | In the same report ( UNEP 1982 : 265 ) , it is claimed that the total area being reclaimed by irrigation is probably about the same as is being abandoned through salinisation , alkalinisation and water-logging , and that these problems account for the loss of about 2–3 million ha of the world 's best agricultural land each year . |
| 6 | Frequently it is claimed that the very nature of social psychology will be changed by the insights of social representation theory . |
| 7 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |
| 8 | For example , it was claimed that the military government had reduced the infant mortality rate to between 24 and 30 per thousand in the West Bank and 30 per thousand in Gaza , comparing very favourably with the rate , 22 per thousand , for Palestinians in Israel . |
| 9 | It was claimed that the unsolicited letter from Watts revealed the extent to which the partnership principle had failed to secure active , purposeful and genuine co-operation between the Cambridge Board and the WEA . |