Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] claimed that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admitting this , it might nevertheless be claimed that a person 's consenting entails , as a matter of the meaning of ‘ consent ’ , not only that he acted in the way I have described , but that his action has the purported normative consequences . |
| 2 | The baby can certainly suffer complications if deprived of mother 's milk and it might well be claimed that talk of its missing its mother is a special language-game pointing only to the source of the deprivation , but Singer is certainly not using the phrase with this in mind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It could thus be claimed that mare and horse were effectively synonymous in this context . |
| 5 | Adjectives occurring postnominally with characteristic value are perhaps less frequently encountered , but they are still by no means uncommon ; we have already queried Bolinger 's view of the only river navigable ; and in the third example from ( 17 ) , it could hardly be claimed that the buildings were only adjacent on some particular occasion . |
| 6 | As an editorial in the British Journal of Religious Education put it , " It could equally be claimed that the syllabus is defective because it did not refer to Krishna , Allah and the Guru Granth Sahib anywhere . " |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | His methods are still used today and it can reasonably be claimed that the influence of the eighteenth-century cattle breeders has been a major one worldwide . |
| 10 | In these respects , it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification . |