Example sentences of "it is claimed " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is claimed that catering colleges have failed to get to grips with the developments of technology , acknowledge its importance and provide students with a level of understanding based on the industry 's needs . |
| 2 | Some exterior finishes are microporous which , it is claimed , allows the wood to breathe . |
| 3 | In a poststructuralist development of the idea , it is claimed that the most literary texts can offer is the endless ‘ free play of signifiers ’ . |
| 4 | Alternatively , it is claimed , such a system would be inequitable since poorer motorists would be driven off the roads . |
| 5 | It is claimed this route would cost £1bn less than BR 's . |
| 6 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |
| 7 | The nationalized industries , it is claimed , deprive the consumer of choice and limit the taxpayer 's freedom to spend his money as he chooses because of the industry 's monopoly position and reliance on state subsidies . |
| 8 | The lower inflation and freer market , it is claimed , has generated an economic recovery . |
| 9 | Instead , it is claimed , Britain 's economic decline has been reversed ; in the process much of the post-war consensus has been broken , and a good thing too . |
| 10 | Pills can now be bought which , it is claimed , can help this process but their worth has not been fully established scientifically . |
| 11 | Traffic flows would be cut , and the revenue Supporters of road pricing believe that the extra revenue raised by paying for journeys could fund help meet the bill for new investment in public transport , it is claimed . |
| 12 | But this , it is claimed , may make them more vulnerable than most to negative emotions when they are shown to be powerless . |
| 13 | The same interests have dominated his 10 years at Westminster , and it is claimed that he has redistributed more than £60 million from the taxpayer to the poor by challenging the DHSS in test cases . |
| 14 | Thus it is claimed that , under Socialist International rules , the Labour Party is forbidden to enter the SDLP 's territory and engage in electoral competition with it in Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | In recognition of that , Pope Sylvester II sent him a crown in the year 1000 and , so it is claimed , apostolic rights over the Church in Hungary . |
| 16 | THE DROWNING man , it is claimed , sees his whole life flash before him . |
| 17 | Cooper invented the Western and , so it is claimed , the sea story , as well as creating the ‘ Leatherstocking ’ tales , set in upstate New York , of which this is the best . |
| 18 | With a new battery-operated tool from Germany , called the Aris Precision Cutter , it is claimed that even the most ham-fisted wallpaper hanger can get a perfect finish every time . |
| 19 | By using this approach it is claimed that important management processes are facilitated . |
| 20 | It is claimed that the ‘ principle of subsidiarity ’ will ensure that states retain a large measure of independence because federalism means decentralisation . |
| 21 | Thus it is claimed that God is perfectly just , where we are imperfectly so — indeed it is sometimes said that God is ‘ justice ’ or ‘ justice itself ’ . |
| 22 | For instance , it is claimed that the world shows evidence of design or purpose : therefore , it is concluded that there must be a divine designer . |
| 23 | It is claimed , for example , that Russia 's ability to produce an atomic and later a nuclear bomb was entirely a result of information given by British spies . |
| 24 | Over a period of twenty years it is claimed that a fast reactor could breed enough additional plutonium to fuel another similar power station . |
| 25 | It is claimed that the church is one of the most complete examples of the Milanese baroque style , but I think the best feature is the campanile , the only part of the older building that remains . |
| 26 | It involves the combining of certain chemical compounds which , it is claimed , constitutes a patentable improvement in the manufacture of an explosive . ’ |
| 27 | Britain is back in the Super-League of top industrial nations , it is claimed today . |
| 28 | In the same report ( UNEP 1982 : 265 ) , it is claimed that the total area being reclaimed by irrigation is probably about the same as is being abandoned through salinisation , alkalinisation and water-logging , and that these problems account for the loss of about 2–3 million ha of the world 's best agricultural land each year . |
| 29 | If it is claimed that a poetics of textual production and reflexivity replaces mimetic strategies of any kind , then the early nouveau roman can also be made to conform to this new postmodern aesthetic . |
| 30 | Within five years , it is claimed , every house in Jordan will have electricity . |