Example sentences of "[be] claim that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been claimed that interference has disrupted train signals , and electronic equipment from Nintendo Gameboys to video cameras has confused aircraft flight management computers . |
| 2 | Much must also depend on the , as yet unknown , date of the constitution of the civitas Carvetiorum , for which it has been claimed that Carlisle acted as a capital . |
| 3 | It has been claimed that adults can also ‘ pick up ’ spoken language in this way ( second language acquisition ) better than by the traditional classroom approach ( second language learning ) if the conditions are similar to those experienced by young children . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It has been claimed that fundholding ‘ has revealed rather than created these variations . ’ |
| 6 | It had been claimed that Mrs McWilliams had had an allergic reaction to the drugs and she had alleged negligence by the anaesthetist . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It has been claimed that Aindow allowed himself to be struck on the leg to support the false story that he had been hit by the car . |
| 9 | It has been claimed that binoculars will show it , but again I must admit failure . |
| 10 | It has been claimed that Margaret saw the tunnel as some sort of monument to her and her period of government . |
| 11 | It has been claimed that food sensitivities occur often in Crohn 's disease and that exclusion of foodstuffs after treatment with elemental diet prolongs remission . |
| 12 | It has been claimed that Mr Gooderham may have had financial problems . |
| 13 | It 's been claimed that children whose fathers worked there were genetically damaged by radiation . |
| 14 | However it has been claimed that Markov probabilities do not give significant reductions in word error rate , and can even lead to an increased error rate ( Riseman and Ehrich , 1971 ; Riseman and Hanson , 1974 ; Hanson , Riseman and Fisher , 1976 ) . |
| 15 | Increasingly , it has been claimed that people who work in government , industry , the social services , etc. , ought to have some sort of specialist knowledge of society on the grounds that they will be better equipped to meet the demands of their work . |
| 16 | It has been claimed that criminals , sportsmen and senior government officials are the most conservative groups in every country . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It could be claimed that Lawson was the custodian of success , however risky his strategy appeared to be . |
| 19 | Although before the Courts Act 1971 in theory it could be claimed that government was ultimately responsible for the running of the courts , in practice responsibility was so diffused between local authorities , the High Sheriffs and Under Sheriffs of counties , and the judiciary , that there was no real way in which Parliament could call anyone to account . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Does this mean that God is ‘ not in time ’ — an example of the way of negation — or does it , as some have said , mean that all times are somehow ‘ present ’ to God , in which case it might be claimed that God possesses a kind of temporal omnipresence ? |
| 22 | On the most trivial of levels it could be claimed that Version 3.0 had caught up with Ventura because it supported stylesheets and graphics wraparound . |
| 23 | Protestors are claiming that proposals to enlarge a trunk road are part of plans to build a new motorway . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Europe 's scientists are claiming that observation of the volcano is a dog 's dinner . |
| 25 | In spite of it being claimed that Sunday was the Lord 's day and therefore a day of rest , all in all it was one of the most tiring days of the week . |
| 26 | From here he set out about 36 AD for Damascus to capture and punish those Nazarene who were claiming that Jesus was the Messiah expected . |
| 27 | Soon InterCity were claiming that sales had doubled to 5 million a year . |
| 28 | If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour . |
| 29 | It is claimed that AirX can be safely used on all types of surfaces — carpets , fabrics , tiles , ceramics , wood — by sponge or spray . |
| 30 | It is claimed that catering colleges have failed to get to grips with the developments of technology , acknowledge its importance and provide students with a level of understanding based on the industry 's needs . |