Example sentences of "[pron] claim that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor , indeed am I claiming that all black sportsmen , at some stage in their development , come face to face with their blackness and are made to reflect on the probable disadvantages it carries with it . |
| 2 | The author cited psychological books , which claimed that black people were intellectually inferior on average to white people : ‘ Read The Inequality of Man by H.J. Eysenck , Professor of Psychology at the University of London for the facts here . ’ |
| 3 | The government 's subsequent decision to acquire the disputed site to build two shrines was attacked by Moslem organizations which claimed that such a decision pre-empted the status of the site , and by Hindu groups which threatened to block plans to reconstruct a mosque . |
| 4 | Rivalry persisted through the 1860s and '70s and in 1881 Gaze produced a pamphlet which claimed that certain companies were apt to ‘ monopolise powers which are the property of all Tourist Agents , and in the development of which we ourselves have borne so important a part ’ . |
| 5 | The military 's claim that the escalating protests were due to the growing presence of " seditious " forces were denied by the Catholic Church and the trade unions , which claimed that this was part of a government strategy to weaken a popular opposition movement . |
| 6 | The Superior Electoral Court ( TSE ) issued the results of a survey on Oct. 6 which claimed that 60 per cent of the 84,000,000 people legally obliged to vote had made a " mistake " with their ballot papers or had not voted . |
| 7 | Some of the consequences were outlined in a study released on the eve of the conference by Arthur Andersen Petroleum Services which claimed that 20 per cent of future UK projects had been delayed for more than a year by the cash flow situation and other uncertainties . |
| 8 | The two HDUR deputies refused to endorse the report which claimed that 4,000 Romanians had been driven to leave the area in that time . |
| 9 | This ultimatum [ see also p. 38403 ] came in the wake of reports which claimed that Iraqi troops were being massed around Kirkuk . |
| 10 | The report has drawn angry reactions from mining organizations , which claim that environmental improvements are under way in many sectors . |
| 11 | This is a view shared by the Educational Publishers ' Council which claims that independent schools spend twice as much as state schools on books and equipment per pupil . |
| 12 | They were encouraged in this delusion by publicity for films like ‘ The Amityville Horror ’ and ‘ The Entity ’ which claims that these were based on true stories . |
| 13 | By the end of February 1985 , the NCB claimed that 50.2 per cent of its estimate of the NUM membership was working , though the union itself claimed that 60 per cent were still on strike ( Jones , 1986 , p. 185 ) . |
| 14 | Alice Heim was beginning her work on creativity in which she claimed that verbal reasoning tests ignored vital aspects of child potential . |
| 15 | She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man . |
| 16 | Pointing her finger at the misplaced moral fervour of the WSPU and the LNA , she claimed that these ‘ dabblers in debauchery ’ had set middle-class women on the rampage against an evil they knew nothing about . |
| 17 | Mrs Proetta , 50 , was the central figure in an ITV documentary in which she claimed that three IRA terrorists there were shot dead in cold blood by the SAS in 1988 . |
| 18 | architect issued penultimate and final certificates which were unpaid by employer who claimed that certain work was defective . |
| 19 | During the meeting the NGC members pressed for the appointment of Prince Sihanouk as SNC chair and " 13th member " , an option which was unacceptable to the SOC delegates who claimed that this would provide the NGC with a " seven to six " advantage . |
| 20 | Grósz 's statement , contradicting official Soviet claims which limited the deployment of nuclear weapons to Czechoslovakia and the former East Germany , followed revelations on April 8 by the commander of Soviet forces in Poland Gen. Viktor Dubinin who claimed that unspecified nuclear weapons had been stored in Poland . |
| 21 | It would be a bold person who claimed that these channels and mechanisms , comprehensive as they are , provide a guarantee of reliability in all contingencies . |
| 22 | THE STAIRS Three tambourine men who claim that retro 's not a dirty word … |
| 23 | In this respect it is in agreement with those theorists who claim that social psychology should be an historical discipline . |
| 24 | As long as Kristeva 's third stage is present in our thinking only as a Utopian dream , feminists can not simply refuse to get involved in this endless discourse of difference ; people who claim that this is a postfeminist era are living in a dream world . |
| 25 | Are you listening those of you who claim that this is his only strength ? |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher argues that the government 's success in revitalising the economy has now provided the resources for tackling these problems and she claims that many will be solved within the next five years . |
| 27 | The details of the comparative method are a little sketchy , but she claims that Melanesian practice is very similar . |
| 28 | She claims that two years later pupils began taunting her about her weight both in the playground and the classroom which reduced her to tears . |
| 29 | The Stirlingshire farmer who claims that toxic emissions were responsible for him having to destroy his entire dairy herd was told in court today that he and his wife were to blame . |
| 30 | ‘ What we had done was to manufacture this and other statistical indices to allow us to prove our point and push a particular policy line , irrespective of the economic realities of the country , ’ says Budhoo , who claims that such ‘ errors ’ were commonplace within the Fund . |