Example sentences of "they claim that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , they claimed that the only items missing from the murder scene were about £400 in cash and two car-tyre pumps . |
| 2 | They claimed that the two laboratory investigations performed on the painting since it was slashed with a Stanley knife in 1986 showed discrepancies which seriously undermined their validity . |
| 3 | They claimed that the ASEAN states which initiated the Zone plan intended it also to embrace other states located in the region . |
| 4 | They claimed that the Western states hoped to use this scheme ‘ to establish a new regional bloc , which would be torn away from the mainstream of non-alignment ’ . |
| 5 | And they claim that the knock-on effect is that weather patterns change . |
| 6 | They claim that the private ownership of capital provides the key to explaining class divisions . |
| 7 | An important criticism of Slote 's and Trueswell 's theories is put forward by Taylor and Urquhart in their research study Management and assessment of stock control in academic libraries in which they claim that the main predictor of future use in a research collection is not the frequency of past use but the imprint date of items in the collection . |
| 8 | They claim that the huge crop will push down prices , and this , coupled with cheap imported plums from Spain will mean it simply wo n't be worth picking the fruits . |