Example sentences of "claim that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's claimed that for some men and women it 's like a drug they ca n't do without — and they end up like any other addict , ruining their lives , desperate for the next ‘ fix ’ . |
| 2 | It is claimed that with intent to defraud the Sun Alliance Insurance Group and while acting with the dead man , Sutherland set fire to the house at Pilton Drive North , Edinburgh . |
| 3 | Several commentators have claimed that on this expedition Gould 's party was the first ever to reach the great western bend of the Murray overland from Adelaide . |
| 4 | The company has claimed that in environmental terms , there is " little to choose " between pampers and traditional cloth nappies . |
| 5 | The receiver is not , however , obliged to fulfil existing contracts and because of this it is claimed that in this regard he is better placed than the company which of course must stand by its contracts . |
| 6 | Such a situation has led Matsuda ( 1965 ) to claim that in most insects the head comprises an acron and only five cephalic segments . |
| 7 | Yet with contradictory logic he claimed that at this level a contributory pension would stimulate retirement , since older people would withdraw from full-time work and would ‘ eke out ’ their pensions by |
| 8 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
| 9 | These figures were produced in support of the employers ' position in the course of a bitter wage dispute ; the weavers claimed that on some types of cloth they could hardly make 4d ( 2p ) a day . |
| 10 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 11 | Erm that offic regarding productivity from economic impact of land reform , official statistics claimed that between nineteen forty nine to fifty four gross output value of agriculture increased by fifty eight percent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On Jan. 9 the environmental group Greenpeace claimed that between 70,000 and 90,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a direct result of allied bombing ; the total number of Iraqi civilian and military war-related deaths was estimated at between 177,500 and 243,000 . |
| 14 | The author , Chris Blackhurst , claimed that in 1989 a 22-page dossier entitled ‘ Owen Oyston ’ was circulated to the press by Michael Murrin . |
| 15 | However , he claimed that in other respects clerks had retained distinct market advantages over manual workers . |
| 16 | Some teachers described the inspection as a very artificial set-up and claimed that in general people were not giving ‘ normal ’ lessons . |
| 17 | Both countries claimed that in these areas of Northeast Asia their political and economic rights and interests were paramount to national security . |
| 18 | Mr Langdale claimed that in 1990 south London drug-dealers supplied cannabis to Northern Ireland , frequently sending it via Red Star parcels . |
| 19 | The Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that in 1990 censorship of the press had been more severe than in any year since 1980 ; seven publications had their offices raided and 11 journalists and writers were arrested [ see also below ] . |
| 20 | Masterman claimed that by this means Britain ‘ actively ran and controlled the German espionage system in this country ’ Readers of the present book will be interested to know whether Professor Hinsley corroborated this . |
| 21 | The Italians claimed that by this treaty Menelik had granted them a protectorate over Abyssinia . |
| 22 | He claimed that after 1987 he had been blackmailed by Papandreou into channelling interest on deposits from public corporations into Pasok election funds . |
| 23 | But it remained true , as a very experienced commentator pointed out , that " any man filled with an excessive desire of fortune or riches should abandon the calling of negotiator " , while the most successful English diplomat of the eighteenth century claimed that after fourteen years in several highly important posts he found himself £20,000 worse off . |
| 24 | Imagine a book which claimed that among heterosexual patients in psychiatric hospitals each had low personal self-esteem . |
| 25 | Along the road , another glimpse of the Buller of Buchan : they claim that in stormy weather the waves crash over the top of the Buller , a full two hundred feet . |
| 26 | Motorola Inc says it is now shipping the 40MHz version of the 68040 in volume , claiming that at 41.8 VAX MIPS , Motorola , it runs faster than the 50MHz version of the full 80486 from Intel Corp . |
| 27 | Motorola Inc announced yesterday that it is now shipping the 40MHz version of the 68040 in volume , claiming that at 41.8 VAX MIPS , Motorola , it runs faster than the 50MHz version of the full 80486 from Intel Corp.The 40MHz 68040 is $393 for 1,000 or more . |
| 28 | If Cuba fell , other Latin American countries would reject us , claiming that for all our might , the Soviet Union had n't been able to do anything for Cuba except to make empty protests to the United Nations ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 493 ) . |
| 29 | After repeated attempts to bring the shadow Cabinet around to his opposition to the ‘ permanent deflation and lack of democracy ’ implied in the Maastricht Treaty , Mr Gould resigned from the shadow Cabinet on 27 September 1992 , saying that his wish to speak out on the Maastricht Treaty was incompatible with the burden of collective responsibility , and claiming that over one hundred Labour MPs supported his position . |
| 30 | Dowie claims that between 500 and 900 burn deaths resulted from ensuing explosions . |