Example sentences of "claim that [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is claimed that children of similar ages inevitably approach problems from similar perspectives and therefore appreciate the learning difficulties that each other have . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I recently read an article which claimed that 30% of all shots on a golf course are putts . |
| 4 | After complaints by the European Parliament , the EC claimed that supervision of environmental effects of mining was the World Bank 's responsibility . |
| 5 | Mr Portillo claimed that people on low incomes were very low users of road fuel yet would be compensated through the RPI for the extra expense that other people would pay . |
| 6 | The FMLN also claimed that aid from international organizations was being prevented from reaching them and that captured FMLN members were now being held as political prisoners . |
| 7 | Newspaper reports on the following day contained complaints of excessive behaviour by the police : some people claimed that doors throughout several blocks of flats had been unnecessarily destroyed . |
| 8 | Reports from the Wehrmacht ‘ Armaments Inspectorates ’ claimed that workers on reserved occupations in armaments factories did not want to be left out of the army and were pressing to join up . |
| 9 | For example , they claim that children of professional-managerial class parents are more than twice as likely to enter the professional-managerial class themselves , than the children of working-class parents . |
| 10 | Claiming that Zimbabweans in Mozambican uniforms were operating in 52 other places ( in seven of Mozambique 's 11 provinces ) , the MNR complained of an alleged lack of impartiality on the part of the international Joint Verification Commission ( JVC ) set up to monitor the Rome agreement . |
| 11 | Claiming that assurances of safe conduct for UN inspectors had been ignored , the team 's leader Nikita Smidovich alleged in Manama , Bahrain , on Oct. 30 that members had been subjected to harassment and death threats . |
| 12 | Serpell claims that losses on British Rail could be slashed from £980 million , on the present network , to £20 million under option B and a profit of £34 million in option A. |
| 13 | Folger 's buy some of their coffee from El Salvador and the advert claims that sale of Salvadorean beans leads to ‘ misery , destruction and death ’ . |