Example sentences of "[be] claimed that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
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 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 .
5 It has been claimed that modern-day pygmies of Malaysia and the Philippines or the Indians of Central America could have left similar prints .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 ) .
10 Finally , it may be claimed that real neutrality is comprehensive neutrality , narrow neutrality being compromised neutrality which is sometimes all that is possible .
11 It may be claimed that open debate in Parliament is being replaced by confidential discussions at which the public is represented by anonymous officials .
12 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 .
13 It is claimed that economic power is constrained by the competitive market .
14 It is claimed that new subjects can frequently be accommodated without addition to the scheme , by a judicious deployment of existing facets .
15 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 .
16 By using this approach it is claimed that important management processes are facilitated .
17 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 .
18 It is claimed that psychiatric diseases such as manic depression or schizophrenia , and also psychological disablements such as low intelligence , are somehow inherited .
19 It 's claimed that clearing Dickens and Jones in Milton Keynes on a busy pre-Christmas shopping day cost the firm one hundred thousand pounds in lost business .
20 During the Christmas revolution , it was claimed that Arab guerrillas in training camps formed the core of the last defenders of Ceauşescu 's regime .
21 When the 1970s arrived , it was claimed that nuclear stations actually were producing electricity which was 35 per cent cheaper than coal and 50 per cent cheaper than oil .
22 His concern was echoed in a BBC Panorama investigation Only Fools And Horses ? on Monday in which it was claimed that off-course bookies must pour more of their profits back into the Sport of Kings — or it could die .
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