Example sentences of "[pron] claim that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not matter whether I claim that God has granted me special revelation , a unique experience , or an unshakeable conviction which I choose to call ‘ faith ’ . |
| 2 | I recently read an article which claimed that 30% of all shots on a golf course are putts . |
| 3 | The award was criticized by the Guatemalan government which claimed that Menchu had been " supported by the enemies of Guatemala " . |
| 4 | Vil Mirzayanov had co-authored an article entitled " Poisoned Policy " in Moskovskiye novosti of Sept. 20 , which claimed that Russia was continuing development and testing of chemical weapons , despite signing the draft treaty banning chemical weapons adopted in Geneva in September [ see p. 39121 ] . |
| 5 | The Turkish government declared that the security of its diplomats was threatened following the screening in March of a programme on West German television , which claimed that West German security services had uncovered up to 30 Turkish secret police , posing as diplomats , who were spying on the 1,500,000 Turks in West Germany . |
| 6 | In April 1990 the US Congressional Budget Office published a report which claimed that adoption of statehood could cost Puerto Rico 100,000 jobs and 73 per cent of its investment from US companies by the end of the decade , through the loss of Puerto Rico 's generous tax incentives under Section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code . |
| 7 | Reports in early December which claimed that Suu Kyi had started a hunger strike to protest over her continued detention were denied by the Myanman authorities . |
| 8 | Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in late August 1989 visited prisons at the request of the government , which claimed that organizations such as the permanent human rights commission ( CPDH ) and the support group for families of political prisoners were falsely estimating that there were between 6,000 and 7,000 inmates . |
| 9 | For example , there was the Australian edition of the racy Sunday Sport which claimed that Kylie had been mauled by a killer shark while skin diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 10 | Three years ago John Small , a sheep farmer in the Mendip Hills , read an editorial in his local newspaper which claimed that foxes never killed lambs . |
| 11 | In the 1960s and 1970s a substantial body of evidence emerged which claimed that schools made little or no difference to pupils ' outcomes . |
| 12 | Keeling 's expulsion was particularly linked to a report in the Financial Times of June 27 , which claimed that Nigeria had already spent more than half the windfall earnings which it had received from higher oil prices during the Gulf crisis . |
| 13 | He was reacting to an open letter to the region which claimed that business had flourished under the Tories . |
| 14 | The human rights organization Amnesty International released a report on March 18 which claimed that Palestinians were being arbitrarily arrested and tortured by Kuwaiti soldiers and civilians . |
| 15 | These include : * Dutch studies which claim that energy savings of 33 per cent can be achieved by packaging milk in reusable plastic bottles ; * savings of around 90 per cent in energy use and polluting emissions achieved by Swiss supermarket chain Migros through a switch from cardboard boxes to re-usable plastic ones ; * the success of Sainsbury 's " Penny Back " scheme , which encourages shoppers to re-use carrier bags . |
| 16 | Heat has entered the debate because the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) has submitted secret advice to the Home Office which claims that deaths after an attack may be lower than almost any published estimate — and certainly lower than those predicted by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) , which has the statutory responsibility to advise the government on radiation hazards . |
| 17 | The EPA 's conditional approval is also likely to be challenged by the Natural Resources Defense Council which claims that weapons plant wastes are potentially explosive and liable to migrate . |
| 18 | It is symptomatic of the individualistic fallacy and its popularity among therapists — who , as we shall see shortly have a special reason for embracing it — that a myth has emerged which claims that Freud himself did not take seriously his most important single work on social psychoanalysis , Totem and Taboo . |
| 19 | The JNA itself claimed that Slovenes had kidnapped two of its soldiers on May 23 , releasing them only when tanks and armoured vehicles arrived at the defence force headquarters near Maribor . |
| 20 | But a few months before , Céline had had a baby girl , Adèle , and she claimed that Adèle was my child . |
| 21 | Due to her innovatory use of the stream-of-consciousness technique , she has often been juxtaposed with James Joyce and A. Virginia Woolf [ qq.v. ] , who claimed that Richardson had invented ‘ the psychological sentence of the feminine gender ’ . |
| 22 | An Iranian proposal on Dec. 17 , 1989 , for the exchange of all sick , wounded and disabled PoWs , was rejected by the Iraqi Foreign Minister , Tariq Aziz , who claimed that Iran insisted on " keeping the issue of war prisoners unresolved to … use it as a pressure card for bargaining " . |
| 23 | He who claimed that art should be impersonal ! |
| 24 | One of these two , inevitably , was his old pupil and sparring partner Alan Griffiths ( by then a Roman Catholic monk , Dom Bede Griffiths ) , who claimed that Lewis undervalued the doctrine of the Atonement . |
| 25 | So were a group of medical general practitioners who claimed that changes in their contracts would seriously damage the health of patients . |
| 26 | It was George Bernard Shaw who claimed that Britain was an island consisting of coal and iron-ore , surrounded by a sea full of fish : It took the British to create a shortage of all three at the same time ! |
| 27 | I strongly disagree with the letter from Stephen Loveridge ( HAS March 23 ) who claimed that MPs voting for the recent Bill to outlaw fox hunting were not voting against cruelty . |
| 28 | The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era . |
| 29 | A more radical attack came with the work of Snyder , Bruck , and Sapin , who claimed that Morgenthau had adopted an overly rational account of human behaviour . |
| 30 | Most commentators attributed Smith 's acquittal to inconsistencies in Bowman 's evidence , to an ineffective performance by prosecutor Moria K. Lasch , and to the Dec. 2 ruling by Judge Mary E. Lupo to exclude the testimony of three other women who claimed that Smith had assaulted them during the 1980s . |