Example sentences of "[verb] [be] claimed [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
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 Indeed , it has been claimed that irritable bowel syndrome is primarily a small intestinal condition and that symptoms originate mainly from this site .
4 In addition it has been claimed that one of the tones is the level tone , which by definition may not have any pitch movement .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It has been claimed that some will have to choose between keeping warm and having enough to eat .
8 However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances .
9 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 .
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 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 .
12 It has been claimed that modern-day pygmies of Malaysia and the Philippines or the Indians of Central America could have left similar prints .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
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