Example sentences of "he claimed that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that Britain and other leading European powers are at odds with the Germans over crucial aspects of the European Commission code on community take-overs . |
| 2 | After less than a month with Tito 's partisans , Brig Fitzroy MacLean was brought out to write the ‘ blockbuster ’ report in which he claimed that Tito was the most important force , holding down 14 German divisions . |
| 3 | He claimed that drinking enhanced some of his performances . |
| 4 | Later , on Oct. 1 , he claimed that Gates 's role " was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence " , exemplified by his doctoring of assessments of the assassination attempt on the Pope in May 1981 in order to suggest KGB involvement , and his wilfully inflated estimate of Soviet influence in Iran in the mid-1980s in order to justify the sale of arms to so-called moderates in Tehran — the first step toward the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 5 | He claimed that customers were appalled by the players ' language and that when he asked for order they threatened to punch out his lights . |
| 6 | Based on prices between 1980 and 1990 , Aziz estimated that Kuwait had stolen oil worth US$2,400 million and he claimed that Iraq had every right to " retrieve " these funds . |
| 7 | He claimed that Ferrara and Faenza had been promised to papal authority in 757 as part of the Exarchate of Ravenna before Desiderius became king and while he was still struggling for the crown with his rival King Ratchis . |
| 8 | He claimed that Japan discriminated against American firms in its public-sector procurement practices , and announced that he was reviewing whether Japan had met the terms of a 1990 agreement with America to purchase supercomputers . |
| 9 | He claimed that Iran badly needed TOW anti-tank missiles and in return for them would get the American hostages being held in Beirut released . |
| 10 | During the hearing , he claimed that Chapman and the directors knew of this and accused the manager of lying when he told the commission he did not know . |
| 11 | He claimed that contractors producing open-cast coal employed about 15,000 people and contributed towards investment of £1 billion in production which met a quarter of UK coal output . |
| 12 | He claimed that Lewis was the only person in Oxford whom he really saw , but this was the reverse of the truth . |
| 13 | Among these he claimed that LGCM , by displaying a flyer for the Gay Guide to London in the office , encouraged promiscuity ; that , by publishing a leaflet arguing for positive images in schools , it was promoting paedophilia ; and that , by advertising the GLC booklets entitled Changing the World and Tackling Heterosexism , it was in opposition to the criminal law of England ! |
| 14 | He claimed that complaints were up but nobody ever thought of complaining when the Labour party was in power because there was not a proper procedure , and in many cases the service was so bad that people did not bother . |
| 15 | He claimed that Hunt , with others , laundered a huge amount through Geneva bank accounts . |
| 16 | And , in an argument utterly characteristic of the mercantilist view of a conflict-ridden world , Norris raised the bogey of the old rival France ; he claimed that France 's naval power had been so strengthened by her own involvement in the slave trade that if Britain discontinued it not only would her commercial prosperity decline but she would lose naval predominance . |
| 17 | This was the view of most scientists : Einstein himself wrote a paper in which he claimed that stars would not shrink to zero size . |
| 18 | The treaty 's economic implications had been underlined by Kuchma on Oct. 31 when he claimed that Ukraine 's budget did not permit " the multi-billion dollar expense " involved in removing strategic missiles . |
| 19 | He claimed that communication professionals should not just be guided by codes of conduct but , more fundamentally , by universal principles of justice , solidarity and reciprocity . |
| 20 | Last night he claimed that President Bourguiba used his hotel before he came to power and that Brigitte Bardot , accompanied by a canine entourage , stayed there in the early Seventies . |
| 21 | When Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence adviser , Ion Pacepa , defected to the United States in 1978 , he claimed that Ceauşescu had been engaged in a long-term strategic plan codenamed ‘ Red Horizon ’ . |
| 22 | Writing in the monthly magazine Bungei Shunju , he claimed that Obuchi and the other LDP figures of that generation were unsuited to exercise power as they had not " the slightest sense of urgency about the current maelstrom of public cynicism about politics " . |
| 23 | When Archbishop Bradwardine preached before Edward III after English victories at Crécy and Neville 's Cross in 1346 he claimed that God granted victory to whomever he willed , and he had willed to grant it to the virtuous . |
| 24 | In his first interview with American television , President Saddam Hussein told C B S News that he did n't want war with the west , but he claimed that God was on his side and said that Iraq would come out victorious in any conflict . |
| 25 | King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV finally acknowledged in an interview with New Zealand television in March , in which he claimed that Pohive and other dissidents were Marxists who wished to overthrow the royal style of government , that the money was being held in a United States bank so that the government would not spend it . |
| 26 | He claimed that tournament judges had openly declared they would not place him first because he was ‘ queer . ’ |
| 27 | He claimed that Mr Maltby lunged at him so he punched him , knocking him to the ground . |
| 28 | He claimed that Mr Smith had been forced into supporting public ownership in Scotland to prevent the party splitting over the issue but predicted that Labour would try to dilute its commitment . |
| 29 | He claimed that de Klerk agreed with him that there was " some hidden hand " and that the government intended to find it . |
| 30 | He claimed that Derrida was in error in his claim that throughout the history of Western philosophy speech had been privileged above writing . |