Sentence examples for it is pretended from inspiring English sources
Given this, Kripke (2011: 59) argues that while a fictional character does not have an actual referent (and, thus, his or her name is vacuous), that "it is pretended to have a referent".
Greenwood's solicitor Paul Booth told the Huddersfield Daily Examiner the video: "Salt is put on a chip which it is pretended is a drug and the chip is left for a seagull which takes the chip.
But I am reminded that the late Hugo Young, at the time of the last great newspaper regulatory convulsion (the Calcutt inquiry of 1990), made a similar point He wrote: "It is time to end the professional blackmail by which it is pretended that the interests of The Sun have anything to do with the interests of The Guardian".
By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, February 3 , 1940P. 44 Lord Hawhaw, as the man who broadcasts from Hamburg in an English voice telling of supposed British losses in the war is know here, now has a revue named after him and has made the book counters with an "Autobiography", told, or so it is pretended, to Johan Barrington, who invented His Lord ship's name in the Daily Express.
It is pretended that carbides in the CHT steel are cementite while those in the DCT steels are η-carbide.
It is pretending otherwise.
and tell them it is "pretend" tea.
It's pretending to be earthenware.
"Others thought it was pretending to be smart but they doubted whether those who praised it understood it".
