Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] claim that " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Leonard , ‘ Although Raybestos officials claimed that they were strictly observing all agreed upon dumping procedures , on-site inspection provided clear evidence to the contrary . |
| 2 | United States officials claimed that most of the nuclear-related technology that Iran was seeking to obtain from China , Brazil and elsewhere could be used equally for nuclear weapons or civilian uses . |
| 3 | The Khmers Rouges claim that Mr Pol Pot , their notorious leader from the 1970s , has retired in favour of more amiable types like Mr Khieu Samphan , who has represented the Khmers Rouges at meetings on the future of Kampuchea . |
| 4 | For their part , the Khmers Rouges claimed that UNTAC had failed to implement major aspects of the 1989 peace agreement , namely the full verification of Vietnam 's troop withdrawal from Cambodia and the strengthening of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) . |
| 5 | Amplifying this statement , Washington officials claimed that Libya had tried in various ways to implicate Syria and Iran — by using a Toshiba radio-cassette recorder , for instance — but there was no evidence of their involvement . |
| 6 | DPK sources claimed that aerial and artillery bombardment had been employed against Kurdish refugees . |
| 7 | The South Africans claimed that between 600 and 800 SWAPO guerrillas had crossed from Angola into Ovamboland , their party 's home ground ; during the following three days , they said , another 500 or so came over . |
| 8 | Local ANC members claimed that he had been killed by members of the Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) who were training Inkatha youths locally . |
| 9 | A new study by UN economists claims that farming contributes one-XXXX third less to national economies than the totals given by official figures , which do not take account of environmental losses such as soil erosion . |
| 10 | The move provoked anger in Russia , and confusion ensued as Yeltsin told the Russian Supreme Soviet on March 18 that Kravchuk had reversed his decision and that the original deadline of July 1 would be observed ; NATO officials claimed that identical assurances had been given by Ukraine . |
| 11 | A letter from her killer and kidnapper to West Yorkshire Police claimed that after she had been beaten unconscious , then strangled , her body had been kept in a wheelie-bin for two days before being taken to where it was later found Easton , near Grantham , Lincs in July 1991 . |
| 12 | The Department of Trade and Industry paper was reported by the Sunday Times to claim that Britain 's manufacturing base was weak and deteriorating . |
| 13 | There were reports on Feb. 20 that US and UK businesses had clashed over post-war contracts , and on Feb. 21 The Times reported that the UK government had begun negotiations with the Kuwaiti government-in-exile for an extension to a deadline for bids , after UK companies claimed that US businesses had secured an unfair advantage in bidding for postwar reconstruction work . |
| 14 | Roughly half of Solihull teachers claim that they have , and not surprisingly a greater proportion of these are the most senior ones . |
| 15 | The Reagan forces claimed that the previous administration , anxious to avoid a tax increase in an election year , had left behind a sizeable budgetary deficit thereby forcing on the new governor the need to introduce legislation substantially raising some forms of taxation . |
| 16 | The US authorities claimed that the decision to evacuate Peace Corps workers had been taken on the basis of general intelligence concerning NPA intentions , and that Swanson 's abduction had only become known after the decision had been made . |
| 17 | Clinton aides claimed that their own polling showed their man winning comfortably , a steady seven points ahead of Bush . |
| 18 | However , US officials claimed that COCOM rules on the export of machine tools could not be relaxed because COCOM countries did not yet have " common standards " of effective protection . |
| 19 | Reports quoting US officials claimed that the Soviet Union had shipped a total of about 100 medium-range missiles to East Germany , Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia , in apparent violation of the INF treaty . |
| 20 | OPEC producers claim that the US tax — which would mean buyers paying nearly twice as much per unit for oil compared with natural gas , coal and nuclear power — is discriminatory in environmental and trade terms . |
| 21 | Polisario sources claimed that in a recent internal investigation he had been found guilty of corruption and diversion of funds . |
| 22 | On the one hand , the Bhatta-Mimamsaka school argued that time is perceptible , whereas their Nyaya-Vaiseka opponents claimed that it is only an inferred concept because it lacks sensible qualities , such as colour , form , etc . |
| 23 | The Leeds researchers claim that the system developed there , the adjournment system , has resulted in lower truancy rates than elsewhere in the country . |
| 24 | But this will scarcely work , for it was precisely in this year , and perhaps as a result of the failure of Archbishop Ralph 's letter to produce any effect at the papal court , that the Canterbury monks claimed that they had ‘ discovered ’ the long lost documents with all the essential primatial clauses in them . |