Example sentences of "[adv] [be] claim that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admitting this , it might nevertheless be claimed that a person 's consenting entails , as a matter of the meaning of ‘ consent ’ , not only that he acted in the way I have described , but that his action has the purported normative consequences . |
| 2 | It could thus be claimed that mare and horse were effectively synonymous in this context . |
| 3 | It can scarcely be claimed that these questions have yet been answered in such a manner as to transform Marx 's very general model into a systematic and well-supported theory of historical development . |
| 4 | It can scarcely be claimed that this provides a much more authoritative or even revealing account of the composition of the Pactus than does the shorter prologue , but it is nevertheless worthy of some consideration . |
| 5 | This really meant the abandonment of the original reductive theory , since it could no longer be claimed that a non-observation statement was exactly equivalent in meaning to any collection of observation statements , however complex and conditional that collection might be . |
| 6 | It could , for example , no longer be claimed that it was unrepresentative of the men . |
| 7 | It can not be claimed that Leapor is the most obscure of these writers ; indeed , her work has been noticed in the past by some very highly regarded poets and critics . |
| 8 | It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time itself apart from the movement of things or their restful immobility . ’ |
| 9 | Not only is the method of demonstration the same but , given the research that novelists do , it can not be claimed that their dialogue is wholly invented . |
| 10 | But it can not be claimed that the unity implied in the term ‘ Final Peace ’ was achieved , either then or later . |
| 11 | It can not be claimed that even as much testing as was possible of the information retrieval systems during the Resource Centre Project has been applied to the discussion in these subsequent pages . |
| 12 | It can not be claimed that this machinery was very successful and the Thatcher Government rapidly did away with it . |
| 13 | it can not be claimed that the competition is easy , but the experience is incomparable and the rewards worth fighting for . |
| 14 | In case D both partner and rest of the world shares have risen therefore it can not be claimed that the effects of integration have been to reduce dependence upon non-partner countries . |
| 15 | Adjectives occurring postnominally with characteristic value are perhaps less frequently encountered , but they are still by no means uncommon ; we have already queried Bolinger 's view of the only river navigable ; and in the third example from ( 17 ) , it could hardly be claimed that the buildings were only adjacent on some particular occasion . |
| 16 | It has also been claimed that they acted as Rome 's representatives in areas devoid of large towns or cities , or military garrisons , but this hardly equates with the known distribution of most of the British-based officials in or near auxiliary forts . |
| 17 | It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market . |
| 18 | His methods are still used today and it can reasonably be claimed that the influence of the eighteenth-century cattle breeders has been a major one worldwide . |
| 19 | It has often been claimed that especially in large , newer urban estates , residents have little ability to control their personal environment , the state of repair of their flat or its surroundings ( Power 1988 ) . |
| 20 | It has often been claimed that English speech is rhythmical , and that the rhythm is detectable in the regular occurrence of stressed syllables ; of course , it is not suggested that the timing is as regular as a clock — the regularity of occurrence is only relative . |
| 21 | It is now being claimed that the ERP allows the objective monitoring of well specified mental activities . |
| 22 | As an editorial in the British Journal of Religious Education put it , " It could equally be claimed that the syllabus is defective because it did not refer to Krishna , Allah and the Guru Granth Sahib anywhere . " |
| 23 | The baby can certainly suffer complications if deprived of mother 's milk and it might well be claimed that talk of its missing its mother is a special language-game pointing only to the source of the deprivation , but Singer is certainly not using the phrase with this in mind . |
| 24 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 25 | And finally , a survey out today is claiming that shoppers in two of the major shopping centres in the FOX F M area are less interested in fashion but more likely to spend , spend , spend on furniture and food . |
| 26 | In mitigation of these charges it has sometimes been claimed that ‘ an important by-product of devaluation was an improvement in USA-UK economic relations ’ [ Cairncross , 1985 , 142 ] . |
| 27 | It has sometimes been claimed that the village is a peculiarly English invention . |
| 28 | It might then be claimed that such a form of the text was incomplete or inadequate , because the point which the author wishes to make is no longer accessible from the written text . |
| 29 | [ The norm in England and Wales is three years to honours , and in Northern Ireland there is a mixture of three- and four-year courses ; although it has recently been claimed that as many as 40 per cent of all British university undergraduates are on courses lasting four or more years , in modern languages , medicine , engineering , architecture and some business subjects ( Institute of Physics 1988 ) . ] |
| 30 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |