Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] claim that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Gaulle could legitimately claim that the result was the most lukewarm endorsement conceivable ; this did not alter the fact that it marked a personal setback for him . |
| 2 | By 1992 the Treasury could safely claim that the UK 's top rate of income tax at 40% was below that of its major competitors , as can be seen from Fig. 16.6 . |
| 3 | Not even the most unreconstructed Keynesian would ever claim that the General Theory was an easy read . |
| 4 | I certainly would n't claim that the loss-of-self aesthetic was valid outside of a probably quite limited , class- and gender-specific group of people who need their over-orderly thought patterns disrupted good'n'proper . |
| 5 | Livernash ( 1963 ) would even claim that the structure of bargaining in the United States has been primarily determined by union preferences and , unlike the situation in some European countries , employers appear to have exerted only a minimum positive influence . |
| 6 | They will also claim that the hunting of sea-birds is very strictly controlled , and that they only take out ‘ surplus ’ birds which would probably not survive the winter anyway . |
| 7 | The Minister will probably claim that the decline in the number of smokers is greater in this country than it is in Italy and in France . |
| 8 | By relying on circular symmetry we can further claim that the electric field will have only a radial component which means that |
| 9 | True , it would run counter to the idea of simplifying the tax system , but Lamont can always claim that the middle band will be steadily reduced until it , too , is 20 per cent . ’ |