Example sentences of "claim that [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is claimed that during the hour-long phone call Prince Charles and Camilla exchange affectionate remarks as they try to find a ‘ safe ’ house to meet . |
| 2 | Two magazines have claimed that during the 1980s safety tests at three nuclear plants in West Germany had been manipulated . |
| 3 | Joseph II in the 1780s attached great importance to its work ( not surprisingly for a ruler of his suspicious and autocratic temperament ) and it was claimed that in the single year 1780 – 81 alone no fewer than fifteen foreign diplomatic cyphers were broken in Vienna . |
| 4 | In defence of their economic record , government spokesmen have claimed that from the second quarter of 1983 the numbers in employment increased and that more jobs were being created in Britain than in the rest of the EEC states taken together . |
| 5 | ‘ There are those who would claim that under the fair employment legislation , preference is being given to Catholic applicants , ’ said the FEC chairman . |
| 6 | It was explained in Chapter 7 that in certain contexts no is pronounced , but the theory mentioned in the last sentence would claim that at an abstract level there is a phoneme , though in certain contexts the is not actually pronounced . |
| 7 | Foreign press reports in March claimed that over the past year up to 400,000 people from shanty towns in the outskirts of Khartoum had been forcibly relocated to areas outside the city [ for December 1991 killings of shanty-town dwellers see p. 38666 ] . |
| 8 | He claimed that under the National Curriculum there would be sufficient flexibility , for example , for schools to merge the teaching of traditional subjects , or to abolish classes based primarily on age . |
| 9 | Some writers ( Musgrave and Musgrave , 1980 ) have put the two theories together , claiming that in the low range of income workers are motivated by the second effect , but later as basic necessities have been bought , and ‘ social ’ necessities too , then the trade-off between leisure and work becomes dominant and the first effect predominates . |
| 10 | Gulfstream claims that with a single fuel stop a GV will be able to link any two capitals or business centres across the world . |
| 11 | The linguist Charles Li , writing in his introduction to a highly speculative volume on the mechanisms of syntactic change ( Li 1977 ) , claims that with a few exceptions the only documented types of word order changes that are not due to language contact are SOV to ( VSO ) to SVO . |
| 12 | The company claims that for the first time C++ developers will be able to reuse existing non object-oriented applications , by re-engineering C and Cobol code into objects . |
| 13 | He claims that by the latter half of the eighteenth century the fading ‘ monarchical law ’ of the ancien régime was being confronted by two different alternatives : the programme of the ‘ reforming jurists ’ ( classical criminology ) and that of the advocates of the prison : |
| 14 | He claims that in a recent $20-billion arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia , a billion dollars ended up being shared by two senior Saudis . |
| 15 | Norris in fact claims that in the patristic period nothing was made of Christ 's maleness , as also not for example of his Jewishness , as being of Christological significance . |
| 16 | Jack Straw , Labour Party spokesman on education , claims that in the first instance the Education Reform Bill gave the Secretary of State 175 new powers , but that these increased to 415 during the Bill 's passage through Parliament . |
| 17 | Stephens ( 1979 ) claims that in the Scandinavian countries , whose industrial structure ( in contrast to the United States and , especially , France and Germany ) is characterised by a small number of highly concentrated oligopolistic employers , to be able to operate effectively unions must organise a higher proportion of the labour force . |
| 18 | Ian Adamson , one of the keenest Protestant Gaelic speakers , who inherited his interest from a Gaelic-speaking great-grandmother from western Scotland , claims that in the 19th century , when Catholics were turning from Gaelic to English , Protestants helped to keep the language alive . |
| 19 | And Chisholm claims that in the non-comparative use , appear-statements express what is ‘ directly evident ’ . |
| 20 | It claims that in the five years to the end of 1988 Pearl 's new annual premium business rose by an average of 3.7 per cent a year against a UK market average of 13 per cent a year . |
| 21 | Scott claims that in the nineteenth century there were three overlapping , but not united sections of the upper class : landowners , financiers ( mainly in the City of London ) , and manufacturers . |