Example sentences of "it is claimed that " in BNC.

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31 It is claimed that psychiatric diseases such as manic depression or schizophrenia , and also psychological disablements such as low intelligence , are somehow inherited .
32 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 .
33 It is claimed that economic power is constrained by the competitive market .
34 It is claimed that no society can maintain high fertility in the face of two generations of mass education , and that had been achieved in much of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century ( Caldwell 1982 ) .
35 It is claimed that the labour of women is required for the creation of wealth and that in certain industries female labour is essential .
36 Interestingly , it is claimed that higher overall returns can be gained from sylvopastoral systems involving poultry than from either conventional free range poultry keeping or farm forestry .
37 Indeed , it is claimed that there are as many as sixteen senses of the word ’ meaning ’ [ Ogden and Richards , 1923 ] .
38 LDOCE is of particular interest , since it is claimed that its entries are defined using a controlled vocabulary of around 2,000 words , and that the entries have a simple and regular syntax [ Boguraev & briscoe , 1989 ] .
39 It is claimed that the entries within LDOCE are defined using a controlled vocabulary of about 2000 words , and that the entries have a simple and regular syntax [ Boguraev & briscoe , 1989 ] .
40 It is claimed that we now know that the world operates in accordance with laws , and so we do not need to bring God in to explain things .
41 As for cases where it is claimed that the A line contains the more specific term , here also the existence of " automatism " may be doubted .
42 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 .
43 It is claimed that new subjects can frequently be accommodated without addition to the scheme , by a judicious deployment of existing facets .
44 Frequently it is claimed that the very nature of social psychology will be changed by the insights of social representation theory .
45 It is claimed that one litre should support no less than 50 fish of one foot or less with its surface area of 800 square metres .
46 It is claimed that left lateral eye movements reflect relatively greater right than left hemisphere activation .
47 Although it is claimed that these cases indicate an impairment in executing symbolic gestures it may in fact be the case that this aspect of their difficulty is secondary to a deficit in dealing with sequences of movements in general , the apparent linguistic defect deriving from this ( Kimura , Battison and Lubert , 1976 ) .
48 Although this will mean a slightly increased retrieval time ( of the order of 5 — 8 ms depending on the device ) it is claimed that the space saving more than offsets this overhead .
49 It is claimed that high taxation rates reduce personal savings which are an essential ingredient in the moral character of a nation and which are also an important source of funding for investment in private industry .
50 In the courts political questions may come before the judges because the matter is already in public controversy , like race or industrial relations ; or because it is claimed that a public authority has exceeded its powers ; or because the matter concerns the activities of the police ; or because the matter impinges on the individual rights of citizens , affecting their freedom or their property .
51 Thus it is claimed that they have two important advantages over tricyclic and related antidepressants — they are better tolerated and are less toxic in overdose .
52 In addition , it is claimed that people of different socioeconomic groups make different demands on the health service at similar levels of sickness or ‘ objective ’ need and that the cost of meeting these needs may also vary .
53 It is claimed that the meaning of existential assertions can be fully clarified only by clarifying the mode of being of the one who makes , and understands , such assertions .
54 It is claimed that there exist two radically different species of phenomena , one of which is entirely inaccessible to physical observation .
55 Sadly there is little documentary evidence relating to early introductions to Britain , although it is claimed that the Romans brought the walnut and sweet chestnut while remains or myrtle , bay and rosemary have been found on the sites of Roman villas , suggesting that these Mediterranean shrubs were cultivated in their gardens .
56 When it is pointed out that a number of Labour programmes have been markedly radical , as in 1945 and 1983 , then it is claimed that the leaders have failed to be behind them and give them their solid backing and support .
57 In Sweden , it is claimed that nearly 10,000 lakes have such high concentrations of mercury that any fish caught in them should not be eaten .
58 It is not possible to predict the types of security interests that will be created in the future and requiring registration of some such unforeseen interests could be unnecessarily burdensome ; even with respect to the known types of legal charge , particularly those conferring the right to possession , it would produce overkill ; and lastly it is claimed that to require the registration of all charges could dry up certain types of secured borrowing .
59 The receiver is not , however , obliged to fulfil existing contracts and because of this it is claimed that in this regard he is better placed than the company which of course must stand by its contracts .
60 It is claimed that such systems satisfy heating requirements at a reasonable cost .
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