Example sentences of "it claim [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It claimed that the tyranny of architectural principles often impeded the functioning of a building , as it was an ‘ Art which thinks man made for it , not itself for man ’ . |
| 2 | It said that there was ‘ no empirical evidence for correlating a politician 's effectiveness in office with his or her sexual orientation ’ ; it was critical of ‘ a large reason for electing a party being because its leader is fortunate in his [ sic ] marriage ’ ; it claimed that the family had been ‘ elevated into the status of party policy . |
| 3 | In 1986 , TV Guide published a cover story entitled ‘ Why American TV is So Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda ’ , in which it claimed that the Libyan hit team story was really a figment of a KGB campaign to spread alarm and ‘ to destabilise public opinion in the west ’ . |
| 4 | In a report on Feb. 14 the New York-based human rights group Helsinki Watch called on Tudjman to investigate and bring to an end serious human rights violations in Croatia , where it claimed that the new government had been executing and torturing detainees and unarmed citizens and destroying property . |
| 5 | It claimed that the removal of barriers to trade could , in certain circumstances , be beneficial to the environment . |
| 6 | And it claimed as the travellers were n't proper gipsies , the council had no legal duty to provide a place for them to stay . |
| 7 | It claims that the normal way to establish that a person has authority over another person involves showing that the alleged subject is likely better to comply with reasons which apply to him ( other than the alleged authoritative directives ) if he accepts the directives of the alleged authority as authoritatively binding and tries to follow them , rather than by trying to follow the reasons which apply to him directly . |
| 8 | It claims that the CSM said the change would be ‘ inappropriate ’ until further research had been done and the idea was dropped for several months . |
| 9 | It claims that the decision of the US National Academy of Sciences in the spring of 1980 to suspend all bilateral symposia , seminars and workshops involving the Soviet Academy , shows how actions often speak louder than words with the mammoth Soviet bureaucracy . |
| 10 | ‘ It claims that the provision of life-saving care to premature infants is too expensive and that resources could be better deployed elsewhere . |
| 11 | It claims that the kit will enable companies to develop distributed , high-performance object-oriented applications that harness the full potential of the 32-bit Windows NT environment — and do it cost-effectively — and it can also be used to develop and deploy object-oriented applications under Windows 3.1 . |
| 12 | It claims that the kit will enable companies to develop distributed , high-performance object-oriented applications that harness the full potential of the 32-bit Windows NT environment — and do it cost-effectively — and it can also be used to develop and deploy object-oriented applications under Windows 3.1 . |
| 13 | Moreover , unless the United Kingdom is taken to be consciously disregarding the very international obligations on the basis of which it claims that the requirements at issue are compatible with Community law , the fact that those requirements are applicable only to fishing vessels tends to show that , in the United Kingdom 's eyes also , they are not the sole requirements suitable for ensuring the existence of a ‘ genuine link ’ as required by international law . |
| 14 | As a as a churchgoer and a committed christian I mean I I quoted earlier on this morning from the Sun newspaper this morning which is ranting and raving this morning on the subject of erm well it claims that the the Archbishop of Canterbury er Dr Carey is saying that erm Charles could never be king of this country erm because erm he had an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles |
| 15 | But it claims that the findings are significant because they illustrate how discharges into the sea can return to land a considerable distance away and enter human food chain . |
| 16 | It claims that the IAEA : ( i ) colluded with the Soviet authorities in concealing the true impact of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 and failed to respond to warnings that foreshadowed disaster ; ( ii ) failed to prevent the diversion by the Iraqi government of enriched uranium from French and Soviet civilian programmes for military purposes ; ( iii ) refuses to tackled the issue of the transport of nuclear waste across national boundaries ; and ( iv ) encourages the dumping of radioactive waste in Africa and other developing countries . |
| 17 | It claims that the stringent tests applied to chemical additives would lead to unacceptable delays in the introduction of genetically-altered foods . |
| 18 | It claims that the report " offers no serious mechanism to reduce the threats " posed by over-grazing by sheep and deer , and the growth of tourism , including ski-ing . |
| 19 | It claims that the small British plastics recycling sector is receiving German waste either free of charge or with incentive payments of up to £220 per tonne , against which the plastic industry 's own organization set up to collect waste , Recoup , is unable to compete . |