Example sentences of "it [be] sometimes claimed " in BNC.
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1 | Thirdly , it is doubtful whether the General Strike could be regarded as the watershed in British labour history , which it is sometimes claimed to be , or that it changed in any significant form the pattern of industrial relations . |
2 | Some millionaire or other , it is sometimes claimed , has had himself cloned in some secret clinic in Switzerland ( or South America ) by taking the nuclei from some of his own cells . |
3 | It is sometimes claimed that female criminal activity is restricted to limited types of crimes . |
4 | It is sometimes claimed that predator assemblages are of little use in palaeoecological interpretation because of this bias , and because they take prey from areas far removed from the place where the prey remains are deposited by the predator . |
5 | It is sometimes claimed that the Candida derives nourishment from yeasts in food , but this is not the case . |
6 | It is sometimes claimed that people in many cultures are aware of the ill-effects of inbreeding ( Lindzey , 1967 ) , but nobody , as far as I know , has claimed that such knowledge is universal . |
7 | Is this a very one-sided picture , as it is sometimes claimed to be ? |
8 | It is sometimes claimed that stylometry enables the scholar to identify the fingerprint of an author , a stylistic criterion , or set of criteria , which can be used to determine with certainty questions of disputed authorship . |
9 | In the great amount of talk about the permissive society , it is sometimes claimed that marriage is losing its sanctity because couples live together without being married and the number of illegitimate babies ( those born to unmarried mothers ) is rising . |
10 | Different theoretical traditions , it is sometimes claimed , belong to ‘ incommensurable paradigms ’ ( Kuhn , 1962 ) ; one can work within only one of them at a time . |
11 | It is sometimes claimed , however , that in fact we are fooling ourselves and our capacity to predict what will happen is not very good . |
12 | It is sometimes claimed , and more often tacitly assumed , that spatio-temporal relations belong in this category , and that , accordingly , relational expressions such as " to the left of " , " before " , etc should be treated as logically basic simple symbols . |
13 | It is sometimes claimed that there are languages without true tenses , for example Chinese or Yoruba , and this is correct in the sense that such languages may lack L-tenses morphologically marked in the verb , or indeed systematically elsewhere ( Comrie , 1976a : 82ff ; Lyons , 1977a : 678-9 ) . |