Example sentences of "[be] claimed [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition it has been claimed that one of the tones is the level tone , which by definition may not have any pitch movement . |
| 2 | It has been claimed that automatic crystallisation is unfair in the sense that it could prejudice subsequent chargees who do not know , and indeed who may have no way of knowing , that the charge has crystallised . |
| 3 | It has been claimed that prolonged remissions of Crohn 's disease can be achieved after enteral or parenteral nutrition , by identifying and excluding foods that exacerbate a patient 's symptoms . |
| 4 | Indeed , it has been claimed that irritable bowel syndrome is primarily a small intestinal condition and that symptoms originate mainly from this site . |
| 5 | It has been claimed that antinuclear antibodies of autoimmune chronic hepatitis reacts with an antigen which is homogeneously distributed within the nucleus and this gives a ‘ homogeneous ’ pattern ( ANA-H ) of positivity by immunofluorescence . |
| 6 | It has been claimed that modern-day pygmies of Malaysia and the Philippines or the Indians of Central America could have left similar prints . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It has been claimed that high unemployment , recent legislation and changes in the strategies of management have served to weaken the power of trade unions , thereby permitting changes in working practices and work organization which provide a base for improved productivity and performance . |
| 9 | This is also true in sugar maples , where it has been claimed that undamaged plants near the damaged ones have increased levels of phenolics and hydrolyzable and condensed tannins , suggesting an airborne cue from the damaged to the undamaged , which then become less attractive to herbivores . |
| 10 | It has been claimed that company-level bargaining has advantages over , and is presumptively more efficient than , industry-wide bargaining in that wages can be related directly to the firm 's performance , profitability and capacity to pay ( Ulman , 1974a ) . |
| 11 | It has been claimed that some will have to choose between keeping warm and having enough to eat . |
| 12 | However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances . |
| 13 | It has been claimed that these free-for-all/do-it-yourself Group attacks justified the early Command view that it was wrong to form a corps d'elite . |
| 14 | Accelerated growth of algae partially poisoned with copper sulphate has been claimed when these were treated with a 30th potency of copper sulphate , but Moss was not able to repeat this work . |
| 15 | The American critics were usually poets themselves ; Leavis made no attempt to be a creative writer — though he has been claimed as such by Ian Robinson — but his own criticism emerged from the Cambridge milieu of the twenties , where Eliot was a dominant influence . |
| 16 | But this had been increasingly called into question : women campaigned for equality , divorced people and unmarried parents became more assertive , and theologians showed that what had been claimed as universal truths often arose from particular cultures and societies . |
| 17 | Costs can not be claimed before Legal Aid is granted or beyond the Green Form limit or any limitation on a Legal Aid certificate . |
| 18 | Finally , it may be claimed that real neutrality is comprehensive neutrality , narrow neutrality being compromised neutrality which is sometimes all that is possible . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it can be claimed that such exploration will be discussing a theistic structure found in the Eastern as well as the Western traditions . |
| 20 | For though it might be claimed that such an education would help a child to see more in his immediate environment , and understand it better , yet it would also greatly diminish his chances of going beyond that environment . |
| 21 | Only by engaging in extreme forms of economic casuistry can it be claimed that such things can be supplied satisfactorily without the agency of government at either national or local level . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It might of course be claimed that this is all that has to be sorted out : just tidy up the definitions , and the problem will be resolved . |
| 24 | It can not be claimed that this machinery was very successful and the Thatcher Government rapidly did away with it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Of course , it could be claimed that this was the same thing as : but it has been pointed out that the two versions are different in several ways . |
| 27 | It may be claimed that open debate in Parliament is being replaced by confidential discussions at which the public is represented by anonymous officials . |
| 28 | Even in 1981 it could be claimed that those who held a " strongly anti-progressive , pro-standards line had been enjoying increasing credibility and increasingly strident support from most of the popular press " ( Dale et al. |
| 29 | Or , on the other , it could be claimed that these were long-term objectives and that the animal was conscious only of intermediate ends ; the hyena was following the promptings of its hunger . |
| 30 | 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 . |