Sentence examples for be pretended from inspiring English sources

It surely cannot now be pretended that the plaintiff in error was thereby harmed.

It can no longer be pretended that this avenue of research is "necessary".

It cannot be pretended that an assured and entirely satisfactory answer can be given to such questions.

But it cannot be pretended that recent republican violence has not handed another excuse to unionist sceptics of power-sharing.

… Can it be pretended that it is any longer the government of the U.S. — any government of Constitution and laws, — wherein a General, or a President, may make permanent rules of property by proclamation?

"It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service [writing the Constitution] had interviews with the gods or were in any degree under the inspiration of Heaven," Adams is quoted as saying.

So Asta now pretends to be pretending.

You will be pretending this animal is a hamster.

Nothing here is pretended.

Translocation, ileus or endotoxine transmission and their complications are pretended.

It is pretending otherwise.