Example sentences of "claim that [pron] [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He himself would probably have claimed that his greatest achievement was to be able to predict accurately where and when a particular cuckoo would lay its eggs . |
| 2 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 3 | Yet we can not claim that our sensory reality is more real than theirs : that we see it the ‘ right ’ way and that they see it in some less than real manner . |
| 4 | ( A strange distinction , this , since the KEF arrangement is probably the closest yet to a true concentric — the others are misnomers and should really be termed coaxial. ) claim that their composite driver is essentially free from the dispersion discontinuities in and around the crossover region , which inevitably result when tweeter and bass/midrange driver are physically separated ( because the directivities of the two drive units do not match in the crossover region the perceived tonal balance is modified as the listener moves position ) . |
| 5 | The Greeks claim that their black economy is bigger than any other Community country 's , and so in absolute terms they are not quite as badly off as the published statistics make it seem . |
| 6 | But if I claim that my religious experience is experience of God , then I am not simply talking about my own feelings but about a transcendent being that I am claiming my feelings to be feelings of . |
| 7 | Government representatives have claimed that the WWF " want to extend the conservation too far " claiming that its own plan is " more realistic " . |
| 8 | But once the Petrovs had given up all their secrets they became difficult to please , claiming that their true value was not being appreciated . |
| 9 | The state rightly claims that its unitary tax is far less onerous than it was a decade ago , and hints that it may soon limit unitary-tax treatment to a multinational company 's American profits . |