Example sentences of "he claimed that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that all three violated the law and Magna Charta and he presented two petitions , against illegal oaths and illegal imprisonment . |
| 2 | Among his close relatives , Gregory numbered bishops of Lyons , Clermont and Langres , and he claimed that all except for five bishops of Tours were related to him . |
| 3 | His diet excluded all these items and he claimed that 70 per cent of children improved considerably on this regime . |
| 4 | He claimed that millions of dollars were being spent by the SADF to promote " moderate " black parties and organizations including churches , so as to help ensure continuing white minority domination in post-apartheid South Africa . |
| 5 | He claimed that capitalist society was polarizing ‘ into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other : Bourgeoisie and Proletariat ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 222 ) . |
| 6 | Driesch went on to isolate other fragments of the sea-urchin embryo and he claimed that each fragment , or combination of fragments , no matter how they were arranged , gave rise to a small but normal embryo . |
| 7 | He claimed that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi opponents of the regime had been subject to arbitrary detention , torture , execution and disappearances . |
| 8 | He claimed that such irregularities invalidated the order and that it should accordingly be set aside . |
| 9 | He claimed that such ‘ unclear matters ’ had been eliminated following recent high-level Soviet-Indian talks , and cited Rajiv Gandhi to the effect that the principles of non-alignment ‘ provide a legal and political framework for an analysis of the complex and particular problems of peace and security in the Asian-Pacific region ’ . |
| 10 | He claimed that such a treaty would " change the history of North America " and would be an " example to all nations " . |
| 11 | He claimed that space-time had an inbuilt tendency to expand , and this could be made to balance exactly the attraction of all the matter in the universe , so that a static universe would result . |
| 12 | And yesterday he claimed that former England captain Gary — never even booked in his career — was SOPPY . |
| 13 | His employment , and the creation of a deputy batteur de musique [ sic ] , permits us with difficulty to understand what M. Devismes meant to say when , in sacking Guenin , first violin , he claimed that extraordinary authority [ une force extraordinaire ] was necessary to direct [ diriger ] the orchestra . |
| 14 | Diaka announced a 34-member Cabinet on Oct. 30 , in which he claimed that 40 per cent of ministerial posts were taken by members of the Sacred Union . |
| 15 | He claimed that this was not necessary , that Seton was an excellent commander and had put up a splendid defence . |
| 16 | Professor Fei Xiaotong of Beijing University was the chairman of the biggest Democratic party called the Democratic Alliance and he claimed that this party represented the interests of intellectuals and especially intellectuals involved in teaching ( Chan 1989 : 83 ) . |
| 17 | Huszti said that while the APEH did require an ‘ open system ’ , but he claimed that this did not necessitate a Unix system , indicating that conformance to the X/Open Co Ltd XPG/3 branding standard might not be obligatory — even though the Hungarian government decreed that X/Open branding should be used in all government tenders back in August last year . |
| 18 | He claimed that this amount did have significant effects on the person 's capacity to remember ( though presumably it did not cause them to remember their past experiences as yeast cells ! ) . |
| 19 | He claimed that 85,000 people had used the range over a two-year period and that outdoor sport was acceptable on green belt land . |
| 20 | And he claimed that Nuclear Electric can never test for every possible accident or allow for human error . |
| 21 | He claimed that some were the work of Edward Prince , an artist who lived in the north of the city . |
| 22 | He claimed that adding VAT to domestic fuel and power would help create a greener and cleaner world by stimulating the use of more energy efficiency measures , particularly in the home . |
| 23 | He claimed that residential homes cost about £170 a week per person . |
| 24 | He claimed that another political party which would have Scotland in the Second Division of Europe was the SNP . |
| 25 | He claimed that last year nearly 1 ½million working days were lost through unofficial strikes , and that 75 per cent of strikes were unofficial . |