Example sentences of "who claimed that [art] " in BNC.

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1 This option was rejected , however , by President Rodrigo Borja Cevallos , who claimed that a referendum would disrupt the economy , hold back investments and " interrupt the country 's productive process " .
2 Three brand-new full-price releases before Christmas is n't bad for a company who claimed that The Addams Family was definitely their last ever C64 release !
3 Three High Court judges rejected appeals by six motorists who claimed that the standard charge sheet was badly worded and therefore invalid in law .
4 The complement of Gould s last comment is likewise true : any scientist who claimed that the Neanderthals were dark-skinned would clearly be committing an act of intellectual folly .
5 They were joined by air experts who claimed that the disaster could have been avoided .
6 Thirdly , the move towards a national curriculum was resisted most strongly by those , mainly teachers and other educationists , who claimed that the nature and scope of the school curriculum was a professional and not a political matter .
7 ( They did , fur example , show that the external critics , who claimed that the cooking and water heating loads were fully on-peak and failed to cover costs , were mistaken . )
8 The Star , for example , had managed to locate their wedding photographer , who claimed that the day after the wedding ceremony the couple asked him to do some pictures with the woman ‘ posing in sexy French underwear ’ .
9 The case was contested by the youths , who claimed that the girls had agreed to ‘ leisurely sex ’ .
10 ‘ We learned so much about the suppliers and how they could help us or not that the results were n't so important ’ , said Hubbard , who claimed that the process was beneficial to both supplier and customer , taking some of the guesswork out of sizing and selecting the final systems .
11 Palafox and Romana are thus the first of a long succession of generals who claimed that the army officers embodied the general will of the nation , perverted by a selfish clique of unpopular politicians .
12 The authorities on Feb. 21 banned demonstrations following large-scale protests by students who claimed that the government was attempting a " cover-up " of the circumstances surrounding his death , and had demanded Moi 's resignation .
13 Lekhanya , who claimed that the King , with his associates in the Military Council and in the Council of Ministers , sought to hinder the Military Council 's " programme of democratization " , announced on March 1 the composition of an eight-member " task force for democratization " .
14 The legality of the move was widely questioned by constitutional experts , who claimed that the constitution envisaged the removal of the sovereign only in case of physical or mental inability to rule and not on moral grounds .
15 Although designed to counter support for the FN [ see Villeurbanne cantonal election above ] , the agreement was criticized by Léotard , who claimed that the FN would still have the upper hand since the new UPF lacked credibility .
16 The affair was based on evidence from a deserter from the DSC , who claimed that the DSC had conducted unauthorized surveillance against some 1,300 civilians , including politicians , journalists and religious figures .
17 Suggestions of a split were denied , however , by the FMLN leadership , who claimed that the complete halting of the offensive was dependent upon the acceptance of a mediation role by the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , who had appealed to the guerrillas to show restraint .
18 It was , however , rejected by Buthelezi , who claimed that the congress would be designed to enable the ANC to take power , and was also rejected by the radical Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , which was opposed to dialogue with the government .
19 Tutwiler 's statement came amidst reports of growing bitterness among Kurdish leaders who claimed that the US administration had failed to support them after having initially encouraged their movement .
20 Additional discontent among former contras , who claimed that the government had reneged on promises to give them land , led to armed clashes and to promises from Chamorro to distribute a further 23,000 hectares of land in the south-eastern Boaco and Chontales provinces .
21 The signing of START came amidst embarrassing revelations from US officials who claimed that the Soviet Union had attempted to circumvent the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces ( INF ) treaty by stationing SS-23 missiles in three Warsaw Pact countries .
22 The ADN leader , former military ruler Hugo Banzer Suárez , faced an internal party rebellion due to the resignation of 2,000 local leaders who claimed that the party was increasingly authoritarian .
23 His death sparked demonstrations in Lomé , the capital , on July 30 by youths who claimed that the killing was part of a plot to eliminate critics of the President .
24 The killing led to rioting by African students who claimed that the officer wilfully shot at point-blank range .
25 Michoacán had witnessed months of demonstrations and protests by supporters of the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ) , who claimed that the PRI had cheated them of victory in the July 12 state elections [ see pp. 39000-01 ] .
26 The staff appraisal interviews were conducted by the Head and the Deputy Head ( Staff ) , who claimed that the main benefits were : a report on individual teachers , agreed with them , on their personal file ( to which the Head added ‘ they 're helping to write their own references ’ ) , and clarification for the Senior Management Team as to what INSET actions they ought to take on the individual teacher 's behalf .
27 Pioneering in this respect was the interpretation of the Shipman 's Tale by Janette Richardson ( 1970 ) , who claimed that the merchant was tied by the imagery of the tale into an inseparable pairing with the monk , and thus although " " overtly " " morally superior to the monk in several ways still essentially one with him .
28 Loggers argued passionately for allowing cutting to continue on economic grounds , but were opposed by fishing industry representatives , who claimed that the populations of salmon on which their work depended were plummeting as a result of their breeding streams becoming silted up due to logging .
29 Opposition to the move , at the annual Scottish Prison Officers ' Association conference in Inverness yesterday came from the staff of Porterfield Prison , Inverness , who claimed that the moth-balled unit would not fulfil the role for which it was originally intended — to house disruptive prisoners .
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