Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be claimed that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , it may be claimed that real neutrality is comprehensive neutrality , narrow neutrality being compromised neutrality which is sometimes all that is possible . |
| 2 | It may be claimed that open debate in Parliament is being replaced by confidential discussions at which the public is represented by anonymous officials . |
| 3 | For though it might be claimed that such an education would help a child to see more in his immediate environment , and understand it better , yet it would also greatly diminish his chances of going beyond that environment . |
| 4 | Even in 1981 it could be claimed that those who held a " strongly anti-progressive , pro-standards line had been enjoying increasing credibility and increasingly strident support from most of the popular press " ( Dale et al. |
| 5 | Or , on the other , it could be claimed that these were long-term objectives and that the animal was conscious only of intermediate ends ; the hyena was following the promptings of its hunger . |
| 6 | Of course , it could be claimed that this was the same thing as : but it has been pointed out that the two versions are different in several ways . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it can be claimed that such exploration will be discussing a theistic structure found in the Eastern as well as the Western traditions . |