Example sentences of "be claimed that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , it has been claimed that the problems of recreation have been overstated and Fitton ( 1979 , 57 ) has argued that : ‘ There has been a tendency to view recreation in the countryside as a problem rather than a welcome opportunity for people to enjoy themselves ’ . |
| 2 | It has been claimed that the existence of the Roman roads enabled the early Christian Church to spread the Gospel throughout the European area and beyond . |
| 3 | 3 In addition to providing for strong and responsible government it has been claimed that the system provides for moderate government because the two parties in a two-party system must strive to occupy the middle ground where the votes lie thickest and this obliges them to control their extremists who might dissuade the middling voters from giving their support . |
| 4 | It has sometimes been claimed that the village is a peculiarly English invention . |
| 5 | But it 's been claimed that the cost of the visit would have been better spent easing student poverty . |
| 6 | For many years it has been claimed that the level of taxes and services is an important factor in moving house . |
| 7 | In consequence , it has been claimed that the buildings were seldom used , but a more likely explanation is that they were kept scrupulously clean for official travellers . |
| 8 | It has been claimed that the role of parental supervision continued into the early mills . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the actual performance of liege homage could be staved off by Henry 's successors until the territorial clauses of the 1259 treaty were properly implemented , then it could be claimed that the duke was acting as defacto sovereign in his duchy until such time as the agreement was fulfilled . |
| 12 | But it can not be claimed that the unity implied in the term ‘ Final Peace ’ was achieved , either then or later . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It could be claimed that the lack of colour can be a major drawback of OHP foils but even this argument is beginning to fail . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | it can not be claimed that the competition is easy , but the experience is incomparable and the rewards worth fighting for . |
| 17 | It may be claimed that the documents are privileged on public interest grounds . |
| 18 | Most of the theatres Warner had acquired were in what was described as the ‘ populous East ’ and especially in Pennsylvania , New Jersey , and New York and it could be claimed that the studio knew and needed to know more about industrial America than some of its rivals . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As an example , it might be claimed that in ‘ hutch ’ was different ( perhaps in having shorter duration ) from in ‘ hush ’ or ‘ Welsh ’ , ; or it might be claimed that the place of articulation of in ‘ watch apes ’ is different from that of in ‘ what shapes ’ . |
| 21 | These optimistic perspectives were quickly abandoned by Khrushchev 's successors , and under Brezhnev it began to be claimed that the USSR had achieved no more than the construction of a ‘ developed socialist society ’ , a new and quite distinct stage of Soviet development whose further evolution into full communism would be a matter for the fairly distant future . |
| 22 | In these respects , it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification . |
| 23 | It is also often unclear whether it is being claimed that the bureaucracy is truly multifunctional or is merely recruiting and socializing its own members , articulating their interests , or acting as ‘ one of the main channels of political struggle in which and through which different interests are regulated and aggregated ’ ( Eisenstadt 1963 , p. 112 ) . |
| 24 | It is now being claimed that the ERP allows the objective monitoring of well specified mental activities . |
| 25 | If the petition is presented in respect of a debt payable at some future time , it being claimed that the debtor appears to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay it , the court may , on the debtor 's application , order that security for the debtor 's costs be given , and no hearing of the petition can take place until the security has been given . |
| 26 | Rather , it is claimed that a culture is intellectually superior because it has acquired that technology . |
| 27 | The precedent suggests a reference to persons under the Tenant 's control in order to exclude mere callers , but where the clause refers to servants of the tenant ( which some precedents do despite the archaic nature of the expression ) it may be as well to qualify this with the words in the course of employment in case it is claimed that a servant will , by the nature of the expression , always be under the tenant 's control . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is claimed that no society can maintain high fertility in the face of two generations of mass education , and that had been achieved in much of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century ( Caldwell 1982 ) . |
| 30 | Although this will mean a slightly increased retrieval time ( of the order of 5 — 8 ms depending on the device ) it is claimed that the space saving more than offsets this overhead . |