Example sentences of "claim that [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Union has reclassified three army divisions , all with heavy equipment , as naval forces , and has claimed that they are thereby excluded from the terms of the treaty : a trick the West calls cheating . |
| 2 | A female journalist from Smash Hits — a magazine that used to love them , but it 's all over now — has not only slagged their record off , she has claimed that they are — wait for it — sexist ! |
| 3 | On 24 December the Soviet authorities , fearing a further change of government and perhaps of political orientation , began to airlift troops into Kabul ; it was claimed that they were responding to an appeal from the Afghan government to suppress a counter-revolution which was being fomented from outside the country , and that their action was justified by the Soviet-Afghan friendship treaty . |
| 4 | Radio France Internationale reported on Oct. 1 that opposition leaders arrested following demonstrations in Douala in September had claimed that they were tortured in detention . |
| 5 | Dissident Shia groups were also reported on Jan. 9 to have claimed that they were responsible for killing a group of senior air force officers during an attack on air force headquarters in Baghdad . |
| 6 | The British petroleum industry has claimed that it is uneconomic to produce 97 octane lead-free fuel . |
| 7 | It could be claimed that it is unacceptable for public money to be used to fund the Commissioner , especially when it is remembered that legal aid is not available for legal representation before Industrial Tribunals , for example , for unfair dismissal claims . |
| 8 | In 1950 a polled Finnish bull was imported — and more than one Irishman has claimed that it was in fact an Irish Moiled , in the firm belief that all polled Scandinavian cattle were descended from polled Irish cattle seized by raiding Norsemen and Danes . |
| 9 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 10 | It could , for example , no longer be claimed that it was unrepresentative of the men . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control . |
| 12 | It is , however , often claimed that there is a qualified obligation to obey the law , based on the authority of governments in just regimes , for so long as they remain just . |
| 13 | From the practical standpoint , it is often claimed that there is never enough time to write objectives ; that their use removes the spontaneity from teaching ; and finally that from a clinical point of view they are inappropriate , as much of the teaching is ‘ crisis , teaching and can not be foreseen nor planned . |
| 14 | But it can be validly claimed that there is a crisis in at least two senses , identified by Morris ( 1999 : 125 ) . |
| 15 | The Shellfish Association of Great Britain have claimed that there is no evidence to show the Pacific Oyster capable of breeding in the wild , and called English Nature 's proposals " unrealistic " . |
| 16 | Indeed , it is claimed that there are as many as sixteen senses of the word ’ meaning ’ [ Ogden and Richards , 1923 ] . |
| 17 | It has been claimed that there are further situations in which consent will be irrelevant to a prosecution under Categories 1 and 2 . |
| 18 | In vertical mergers it is often claimed that there are important gains to co-ordination and planning . |
| 19 | It is sometimes claimed that there are languages without true tenses , for example Chinese or Yoruba , and this is correct in the sense that such languages may lack L-tenses morphologically marked in the verb , or indeed systematically elsewhere ( Comrie , 1976a : 82ff ; Lyons , 1977a : 678-9 ) . |
| 20 | It was claimed that there were about 350 members in Sheffield , ‘ 50 wear uniform ’ , and in Harrogate the fascists ‘ appear to confine their attention to younger members of the Tory Party , particularly those interested in sports , rugby and golf players ( the boisterous kind of young bloods ) . ’ |
| 21 | Opposition sources also claimed that there were two assassination attempts against Kadhafi in 1989 , including one during the visit in March by President Assad of Syria ( for which see p. 37101 ) . |
| 22 | The ANC had claimed that there were more than 3,000 political prisoners and some 40,000 dissidents in exile . |
| 23 | It was claimed that there were further threats and assaults and Grugel was given money . |
| 24 | Veteran miners had claimed that there was good copper in the sole of the shaft when it was left off . |
| 25 | Kryuchkov apparently claimed that there was an armed revolt in process in Moscow , forcing the imposition of the state of emergency and the appointment of an eight-man committee . |
| 26 | The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost . |
| 27 | Hsu 's monograph suffers from the converse limitation ; the author expressly claimed that he was studying members of his own society but , by the ordinary criteria used by social anthropologists , he was not doing an ) " thing of the sort . |
| 28 | It is not merely that there are portraits of him at every turn , for there are almost as many of Inglis , nor could it be claimed that he was the greatest lawyer , for he had many rivals for that title even in his own generation , yet it is beyond argument that he was the most influential advocate ever to walk the floor of Parliament House . |
| 29 | It 's claimed that he was secretly paid commission for awarding work to three firms in Italy , Germany and Norway . |
| 30 | But can the verification principle give him the right to do this , when those who take a different view from him feel entitled to claim that they are abiding by that principle ? |