Example sentences of "it be claimed that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of it being claimed that Sunday was the Lord 's day and therefore a day of rest , all in all it was one of the most tiring days of the week . |
| 2 | With the correct flow rates it 's claimed that water changes are virtually redundant . |
| 3 | It 's claimed that Gilbey spoke to the Princess of Wales , who was using an ordinary domestic telephone . |
| 4 | It 's claimed that Gilbey spoke to the Princess of Wales , who was using an ordinary domestic telephone . |
| 5 | It 's claimed that Honda is turning away job applicants who belong to a union . |
| 6 | Thus , using arguments which are , in effect , the same as the criticisms levelled against nationalised industries , it is claimed that privatisation leads to greater competition and efficiency , by exposing the privatised firms to market forces . |
| 7 | ( Perhaps this is why it is claimed that boys ' academic performance is higher in ‘ mixed ’ schools than in ‘ boys only ’ schools : they benefit from having a whole group to be better than ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour . |
| 10 | It is claimed that AirX can be safely used on all types of surfaces — carpets , fabrics , tiles , ceramics , wood — by sponge or spray . |
| 11 | It is claimed that Altrincham has the second highest capital income in the country . |
| 12 | In addition , it is claimed that people of different socioeconomic groups make different demands on the health service at similar levels of sickness or ‘ objective ’ need and that the cost of meeting these needs may also vary . |
| 13 | In a similar way in suprasegmental phonology it is claimed that utterances may be divided up into tone-units , and that one can identify on phonetic or phonological grounds the places where one tone-unit ends and another tone-unit begins . |
| 14 | Because of its compatibility with this standard , it is claimed that Photo CD can be used with virtually any type of computer adhering to common industry standards . |
| 15 | It is claimed that children of similar ages inevitably approach problems from similar perspectives and therefore appreciate the learning difficulties that each other have . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Reports in early March had indicated that the IAEA had sought to play down the significance of a recent report submitted to the UN in which it was claimed that Iraq was offering " better co-operation " to IAEA inspectors . |
| 18 | It was claimed that Alar posed a cancer threat to 50 people in a million over a lifetime — well over the legal limit . |
| 19 | It was claimed that soldiers on a British training exercise had been caught by a fearsome ‘ flame weapon ’ which had burned dozens of them alive at the water 's edge . |
| 20 | It was claimed that union growth was positively correlated with business prosperity , increasing when it was good and falling when it was bad . |
| 21 | It was claimed that Goebbels had raised up the Führer to be the ‘ German god ’ . |
| 22 | In a story in yesterday 's Daily Mirror it was claimed that Arsenal centre-half Andy Linighan made the remark , including a comment about Adolf Hitler , after he refused to pay the fare to taxi driver Harry Levy . |
| 23 | By 1988 it was claimed that £200 million of Urban Development Grant and Urban Regeneration Grant had successfully ‘ levered ’ more than £800 million of private investment into the inner cities ( although how much of the latter sum might have been invested in any case is difficult to say ) . |
| 24 | It was claimed that Kylie was placed on a special 1500 calorie a day diet to try to replace the lost weight . |
| 25 | In short , it was claimed that meditators ' moral senses were enlivened and it helped them ‘ become better Christians ’ . |
| 26 | However , it was claimed that criminals saw the vans operating in the city 's large housing schemes as an ideal front from which to sell drugs and stolen goods , and threatened the legitimate operators into giving up their runs to let them move into the area . |
| 27 | It was claimed that criminals saw the vans operating in the city 's large housing schemes as an ideal front from which to sell drugs and stolen goods , and threatened the legitimate operators . |
| 28 | However , it was claimed that criminals saw the vans operating in the city 's large housing schemes as an ideal front from which to sell drugs and stolen goods , and threatened the legitimate operators into giving up their runs to let them move into the area . |
| 29 | Although the Hanson plans for Imperial were never fully spelled out , it was claimed that Hanson had great experience of digesting major acquisitions and also had the ability to rejuvenate ailing companies , transforming their profitability . |
| 30 | On the other hand , it was claimed that Hanson was only interested in short-term profits , rather than long-term investment and that the company was only capable of limited organic growth , thus forcing it to rely on ever larger takeover bids to sustain its expansion . |