Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [be] claimed that [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | But it can not be claimed that the unity implied in the term ‘ Final Peace ’ was achieved , either then or later . |
| 5 | it can not be claimed that the competition is easy , but the experience is incomparable and the rewards worth fighting for . |
| 6 | In case D both partner and rest of the world shares have risen therefore it can not be claimed that the effects of integration have been to reduce dependence upon non-partner countries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In these respects , it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification . |