Example sentences of "claim that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is claimed that economic power is constrained by the competitive market . |
| 2 | Other authors have claimed that visual laterality effects occur when judgements have to be made from memory , that is , beyond the coding stage ( Hardyck , Tzeng and " Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Kirsner , 1980 ; Kirsner and Brown , 1981 . ) |
| 3 | A leading climatologist has claimed that global warming will increase the risk of structural damage to buildings and will need to be tackled with new building regulations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Indeed , it has been claimed that irritable bowel syndrome is primarily a small intestinal condition and that symptoms originate mainly from this site . |
| 6 | Although this seems equitable , it is claimed that imputed income is not an everyday concept so that the tax of income that is not a money flow would be politically unpopular as it would have to be paid from the working partner 's income . |
| 7 | Finally , it may be claimed that real neutrality is comprehensive neutrality , narrow neutrality being compromised neutrality which is sometimes all that is possible . |
| 8 | For example in aerospace it is claimed that European collaboration allows advanced research to be undertaken which would be too expensive on a national basis . |
| 9 | A number of observers have claimed that modern ideology is marked by the ruthless demystification of tradition ( i.e. Horkheimer and Adorno , 1973 ; Horkheimer , 1978 ; Abercrombie et al . , |
| 10 | Other Hawaiians have claimed that geothermal exploitation disrupts their worship of the goddess , Pele . |
| 11 | One day he reported that the defence had claimed that partisan warfare was contrary to the Hague Convention , that the Germans therefore had every right to take reprisals against the partisans , and that any excesses on their part were explained if not justified by their horror of what the partisans did . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is widely claimed that English speech tends towards a regular alternation between stronger and weaker , and tends to adjust stress levels to bring this about . |
| 15 | Jana , the official Libyan news agency , had earlier claimed that Libyan control would be a'logical and historical' move because of the considerable early Arab links with the city . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Environmental groups have claimed that British Gas 's operations have caused damage to crops and game animals . |
| 19 | ‘ Aristotle , my dear Roger , always claimed that careful observation , coupled with logic , would solve any problem under the sun . |
| 20 | It may be claimed that open debate in Parliament is being replaced by confidential discussions at which the public is represented by anonymous officials . |
| 21 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has claimed that radioactive waste from the Springfields nuclear plant is contaminating parts of the River Ribble in Lancashire . |
| 22 | Both Halsey and Goldthorpe ( 21 ) , ( 22 ) , separately have found that the privileged continue to be so over the years when we have claimed that educational opportunity was available to the able child . |
| 23 | German businesses had claimed that German disposal laws — among the strictest in Europe — placed an unfair burden on firms struggling with recession and foreign competiton . |
| 24 | By using this approach it is claimed that important management processes are facilitated . |
| 25 | Moscovici ( 1984 ) has claimed that social psychology should become ‘ an anthropological and a historical science ’ ( p. 984 ) . |
| 26 | National Power has claimed that divulging information on the fuel that they plan to burn will give their competitors vital information about how their plants operate . |
| 27 | Even during the phase of rampant textual materialism , Ricardou and others were still able to claim that avant-garde writing was inherently political by its very existence . |
| 28 | In the context of the conventional debate over academic freedom , a standard move in response to this point is to claim that academic freedom is a concept applicable to individual persons , and that academic autonomy is a concept applicable to institutions . |
| 29 | While it was obviously impossible to claim that literary art still sprang from the general community , this could be accounted for by the gulf between literature and life caused by the processes of industrialization . |
| 30 | Furthermore , Britain 's liberal capital market has allowed easier access for foreigners to British firms than vice versa and this has caused some to claim that British industry is vulnerable . |