Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | But a few months before , Céline had had a baby girl , Adèle , and she claimed that Adèle was my child . |
| 3 | She claims that smokers are just as responsible as any other parents . |
| 4 | She claims that friendships should be in the same degree , and not ‘ Where heavy Pomp and sullen Form witholds / That chearful Ease and Sympathy of Souls ’ [ ML , 1 , 77 ] . |
| 5 | She claims that Meryl was sitting on that window seat last night , wearing just her nightclothes . |
| 6 | They claimed that Philip III of France , his court and his officers had recently ( a modico tempore ) hindered and troubled them by citing them before other courts — not only the Paris Parlement , but the court of the French seneschal of Périgord . |
| 7 | They claimed that records of tests which nurses said they carried out on Mrs Bennett had gone missing from the Royal , and details of her case presented to the coroner differed from what they had been told . |
| 8 | They claimed that mid-week polls showing a large Labour lead had shocked some floating voters into the realisation that opting for the Liberal Democrats would let Mr Kinnock in by the back door . |
| 9 | At other times they claimed that Kylie had negotiated a one million dollar contract to return to Neighbours — a story which Kylie described as wildly untrue . |
| 10 | They claimed that Saibou 's government had failed to keep promises which it made on the conditions for their return . |
| 11 | They claimed that Mr Cash had told MPs his motion had the personal support of Mr Major . |
| 12 | They claim that employers are unlikely to consider anyone who has been out of a job for so long . |
| 13 | They claim that literacy brings ‘ enhanced cognitive and intellectual competence ’ and creates the adaptable , more productive ‘ Modern Man ’ ( sic ) . |
| 14 | In a report , they claim that Huntsmen collect dead animals from local farms , feed their hounds on the raw meat and then sell the skins to dealers . |
| 15 | They claim that doctors receive higher rewards than teachers because they are more fully professionalized . |
| 16 | For example , they claim that children of professional-managerial class parents are more than twice as likely to enter the professional-managerial class themselves , than the children of working-class parents . |
| 17 | The problem with all these formulations is that they are reductionist : that is , they claim that complex and multi-faceted phenomena can be explained by a single , simple cause . |
| 18 | In general they claim that recovery of the polluted parts of the Sound is almost complete . |
| 19 | ‘ Scandinavians now accept that there is no evidence of damage to forests but they claim that fish lakes and rivers suffer from the additional acidity , ’ said its Annual Report for 1976/7 . |
| 20 | They claim that impact studies revealing likely " catastrophic consequences " for wildlife have been deliberately suppressed by contractors . |
| 21 | They claim that Prince Sihanouk has offered the Khmers Rouges a role in the future government of Cambodia , in return for a promise not to disrupt the election . |
| 22 | How is it claimed that punishment reduces crime ? |
| 23 | He claimed that Britain and other leading European powers are at odds with the Germans over crucial aspects of the European Commission code on community take-overs . |
| 24 | After less than a month with Tito 's partisans , Brig Fitzroy MacLean was brought out to write the ‘ blockbuster ’ report in which he claimed that Tito was the most important force , holding down 14 German divisions . |
| 25 | He claimed that drinking enhanced some of his performances . |
| 26 | Later , on Oct. 1 , he claimed that Gates 's role " was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence " , exemplified by his doctoring of assessments of the assassination attempt on the Pope in May 1981 in order to suggest KGB involvement , and his wilfully inflated estimate of Soviet influence in Iran in the mid-1980s in order to justify the sale of arms to so-called moderates in Tehran — the first step toward the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 27 | He claimed that customers were appalled by the players ' language and that when he asked for order they threatened to punch out his lights . |
| 28 | Based on prices between 1980 and 1990 , Aziz estimated that Kuwait had stolen oil worth US$2,400 million and he claimed that Iraq had every right to " retrieve " these funds . |
| 29 | He claimed that Ferrara and Faenza had been promised to papal authority in 757 as part of the Exarchate of Ravenna before Desiderius became king and while he was still struggling for the crown with his rival King Ratchis . |
| 30 | He claimed that Japan discriminated against American firms in its public-sector procurement practices , and announced that he was reviewing whether Japan had met the terms of a 1990 agreement with America to purchase supercomputers . |