Example sentences of "[pron] claimed that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This ultimatum [ see also p. 38403 ] came in the wake of reports which claimed that Iraqi troops were being massed around Kirkuk . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Alice Heim was beginning her work on creativity in which she claimed that verbal reasoning tests ignored vital aspects of child potential . |
| 11 | She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | architect issued penultimate and final certificates which were unpaid by employer who claimed that certain work was defective . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They claimed that 133 out of the 225 MPs had signed the petition , which cited 24 cases of alleged corruption and nepotism . |
| 19 | They claimed that this was an annual event and it does seem that the date coincided with a regular initiation ceremony for new members of their organisation . |
| 20 | They showed that such models could start with a big bang , even though the galaxies were no longer always moving directly away from each other , but they claimed that this was still only possible in certain exceptional models in which the galaxies were all moving in just the right way . |
| 21 | He claimed that all three violated the law and Magna Charta and he presented two petitions , against illegal oaths and illegal imprisonment . |
| 22 | Among his close relatives , Gregory numbered bishops of Lyons , Clermont and Langres , and he claimed that all except for five bishops of Tours were related to him . |
| 23 | His diet excluded all these items and he claimed that 70 per cent of children improved considerably on this regime . |
| 24 | He claimed that millions of dollars were being spent by the SADF to promote " moderate " black parties and organizations including churches , so as to help ensure continuing white minority domination in post-apartheid South Africa . |
| 25 | He claimed that capitalist society was polarizing ‘ into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other : Bourgeoisie and Proletariat ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 222 ) . |
| 26 | Driesch went on to isolate other fragments of the sea-urchin embryo and he claimed that each fragment , or combination of fragments , no matter how they were arranged , gave rise to a small but normal embryo . |
| 27 | He claimed that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi opponents of the regime had been subject to arbitrary detention , torture , execution and disappearances . |
| 28 | He claimed that such irregularities invalidated the order and that it should accordingly be set aside . |
| 29 | He claimed that such ‘ unclear matters ’ had been eliminated following recent high-level Soviet-Indian talks , and cited Rajiv Gandhi to the effect that the principles of non-alignment ‘ provide a legal and political framework for an analysis of the complex and particular problems of peace and security in the Asian-Pacific region ’ . |
| 30 | He claimed that such a treaty would " change the history of North America " and would be an " example to all nations " . |