Example sentences of "claim that [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was claimed that among subjects with a normal ( non-inverted ) writing posture , language and spatial functions were lateralised to the contralateral and ipsilateral hemispheres respectively . |
| 2 | ( A report in the Guardian of Feb. 19 had claimed that in Baghdad alone , the lack of electricity was causing the death of 50 babies a day . ) |
| 3 | And Professor Bourdieu , in response , has claimed that in fact social stasis is a more prevalent phenomenon than social change in empirical reality , and that he has been thus justified in his pronounced concern over his career with the explanation of such social stasis . |
| 4 | Certain people have claimed that in group psychoanalysis and that I think is fraudulent , because they are not doing analysis they 're doing something different and erm I think it is something described I think very well in this book , although of course as we said this was written erm er group therapy . |
| 5 | He has variously claimed that from farts he can tell not only what people have eaten or drunk , but also the sort of person they are , what they ought to eat , whether they are emotionally unstable or upset , whether they are keeping secrets , laughing at you behind your back or trying to ingratiate themselves with you , and even what they are thinking about at the precise moment they issue the fart ( this largely from the sound ) . |
| 6 | On such a view , in so far as pragmatics is concerned with context , it can be claimed that by definition pragmatics is not part of competence , and thus not within the scope of grammatical descriptions . |
| 7 | They claimed that to date diplomatic , political and humanitarian efforts by the international community had failed to stop the aggression against them and had done little to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population . |
| 8 | DEC claimed that at $7 an aggregate SPECmark , the chips beat out all comers on the price-performance curve . |
| 9 | DEC claimed that at $7 an aggregate SPECmark , the chips beat out all comers on the price/performance curve . |
| 10 | Nixon claimed that as President he had special executive privileges which allowed him to refuse access to the tapes . |
| 11 | On May 3 sources at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in Brussels claimed that on Feb. 25 , the day of major opposition demonstrations in Moscow and across the country [ see p. 37322-23 ] , a division of up to 6,000 heavily armed troops had been mobilized on the outskirts of Moscow . |
| 12 | Cresswell believed that the ‘ dole business ’ in the south was responsible ; Cooper claimed that on election day ‘ when children went to get free dinners they were told to tell their parents that if Cooper was returned no more free dinners would be given ’ ; Coath said that electors had been told that if they voted for him ‘ they would get no more doles ’ ; and Clare had been accused of voting against the guardians ' grant of coal to the unemployed ( SE 11 November 22 ) . |
| 13 | In another broadcast the radio station claimed that on Sept. 14 a group of 30 monks had attacked four soldiers travelling to hospital in Mandalay . |
| 14 | Speaking at the World Conservation Union meeting in Perth , Australia , the organisation claimed that without protection , 5,000 of the remaining 50,000 orang-utans will continue to be lost each year . |
| 15 | Sharon claimed that under Shamir 's premiership " Palestinian terrorism is running wildly rampant inside all of Eretz Yisrael [ the whole of the biblical " Land of Israel " , including the West Bank , Gaza and the Golan Heights ] " . |
| 16 | Lawyers claimed that during evidence she FILLED in official forms , FLICKED through her diary , DEALT with mail and STUDIED her cheque book . |
| 17 | The magazine claimed that in 37pc of the multiple travel agents visited researchers were spontaneously offered only holidays from the linked company , with no other choice . |
| 18 | The magazine claimed that in 37pc of the multiple travel agents visited researchers were spontaneously offered only holidays from the linked company , with no other choice . |
| 19 | Macdonald 's survey of 1904 claimed that in Edinburgh women were involved in " every process except making up and carrying type " , suggesting that they did lock up formes and do corrections |
| 20 | A correspondent for Cornhill Magazine , who claimed that in order to gain an inside understanding of ‘ The Science of Garotting ’ he had visited an experienced convict in his cell and offered himself up as a guinea-pig victim , described the main elements of this ‘ most inclement ruffianism that ever disgraced a nineteenth century ’ . |
| 21 | Unconfirmed reports claimed that in October 1989 Mladenov visited the Soviet leadership in Moscow and secured advance backing for his palace coup against Zhivkov [ see p. 37027 ] . |
| 22 | And Dearle claimed that in addition to the small scale of their work and the inexperience of their members , the committees also suffered from a difficulty in gaining the support of employers , especially in persuading them to grant the young worker time off for further education . |
| 23 | Mr Greene claimed that in Britain campaigns aimed at the population as a whole had been shown to have been a waste of money and there had been a change of policy to target the high-risk groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users . |
| 24 | An enquiry of 1607 claimed that in Leicestershire at least 8,245 acres had been enclosed and converted in seventy-one different places since 1578 . |
| 25 | The decision , less than a year after Egypt 's readmission to the Arab League at the 1989 Casablanca summit [ see p. 36669 ] , followed intensive lobbying by Egyptian diplomats who claimed that in terms of the League 's founding charter , Cairo should be its permanent home , and refurbishing of the League 's former headquarters on the banks of the Nile was already well under way . |
| 26 | In particular , the government claimed that by mid-January it had recaptured the towns of Debre Tabor ( in Gondar ) and Mehal Meda , Jihur and Rabel ( in Shoa ) . |
| 27 | Could it be that Octel 's handsomely presented claim that without lead alkyls the roads of ‘ most of the world would be very empty ’ has had the intended effect on one of our more propaganda resistant MPs ? |
| 28 | Thus I claim that for decades we have attempted to change the nature of the art in order to meet the requirements of child-centred education — and have felt guilty because it does not work . |
| 29 | But sources claim that in place of a family atmosphere , a more mainstream business mentality is setting in . |
| 30 | Mark is quietly claiming that in Jesus we have to do with none other than Yahweh , who had come to our world in the man Jesus . |