Example sentences of "[be] claimed that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , it may be claimed that real neutrality is comprehensive neutrality , narrow neutrality being compromised neutrality which is sometimes all that is possible . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it can be claimed that such exploration will be discussing a theistic structure found in the Eastern as well as the Western traditions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It can not be claimed that this machinery was very successful and the Thatcher Government rapidly did away with it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It may be claimed that open debate in Parliament is being replaced by confidential discussions at which the public is represented by anonymous officials . |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |