Example sentences of "[adv] to claim [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It went on to claim that ISC was a ‘ highly cash-absorptive operation ’ . |
| 2 | He goes on to claim that the military are also involved . |
| 3 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 4 | She went on to claim that Elvis wanted to join his beloved mother Gladys , whose death had shattered him beyond repair . |
| 5 | In the early 1980s , this view was attacked by Peter White in a controversial article which questioned whether the Elizabethan church was ever fully predestinarian , and went on to claim that the apparently religious conflicts within England in the late 1620s were in fact primarily caused by the pressures of international power politics rather than by theological differences . |
| 6 | Plekhanov next goes on to claim that the character traits of individuals , whether causally efficacious or not , are ‘ accidents ’ in relation to ‘ the historical destiny of nations ’ . |
| 7 | In the published version of your parliamentary intervention you admit that ‘ there is an association between health and all the factors that he [ David Blunkett ] has mentioned ’ but go on to claim that health variations are being examined as part of The Health of the Nation strategy . |
| 8 | Halliday goes on to claim that the theme of the whole novel , in a way , is " transitivity " : the linguistic pattern of choices realizes a primitive pattern of cognition , which in turn is the key to the tragic vision of the novel . |
| 9 | The report goes on to claim that the people could only be taught " thrift and prudence " by men who would actually associate with them , thereby ensuring that the influence of " the imperishable youth of Oxford " would " induce them to face the elementary laws of economics . " |
| 10 | A leader in the Times Higher Education Supplement called the plan to abolish the ILEA ‘ a disgraceful measure that plainly verges on maladministration ’ , and went on to claim that the abolition ‘ will set back education in London for a generation ’ . |
| 11 | He may prefer only to claim that they apply once ethical language and judgement are understood in the way he recommends . |
| 12 | Often benefit is not paid for weeks on end , so to claim that the regulation would result in some of the expeditious service from the DSS that the Minister likes to talk about is absurd . |
| 13 | Where a more serious breach of contract occurs , or you are sacked , you will need to consider whether or not to claim that you have been wrongfully dismissed . |
| 14 | This is not to claim that there would be a change in their basic natural impulses ( to assist animals or fellow beings , to protect children , prefer friends , and so on ) . |
| 15 | Again , this is not to claim that we all aspire to it equally : it is simply to claim that , whatever our personal specific goals , some amount of money is almost invariably required for their realisation . |
| 16 | This is not to claim that Marryat ever intended his sea-stories to be read primarily as studies in character . |
| 17 | This is not to claim that the war was totally unintended , but that national leaders had become caught in an irrational process which led inevitably to war . |
| 18 | Taking the second case first , it is clear that under section 8(2) the driver , in order that he may decide whether or not to claim that the breath specimen be replaced , should be fully informed of the nature of the option open to him and what will be involved if he exercises it . |
| 19 | That is not to claim that illus.1 wholly corresponds to what was used in 1790 , or even 1806 : but on the other hand , it appears to be plausible in the light of these important contemporary writers . |
| 20 | It may seem surprising nonetheless to claim that the infinitive event is represented as a mere potentiality in uses with the modal auxiliaries in past contexts such as : ( 9 ) When he was young , he could swim across the lake and back in 10 minutes . |
| 21 | Indeed , John Knox was later to claim that after Beaton had cried into the dying king 's ear that there should be four regents , with himself as principal , ‘ a dead man 's hand was made to subscribe a blank ’ . |
| 22 | The Maronites were later to claim that there had been provocation for the killings but the attack appeared to have been carefully planned . |
| 23 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A was later to claim that Kent , Sussex , Essex and Surrey had been wrongfully forced away from the kindred of Ecgberht , son of Ealhmund , king of the West Saxons ( AS C A , s.a. 823 ) . |
| 24 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |
| 25 | Thus to claim that Atlantis actually existed , or that Achilles actually existed , is not to ascribe the property of existence to Atlantis or Achilles qua objects of thought , but simply to claim that the world contained Atlantis or Achilles . |
| 26 | A FORMER employee of British Nuclear Fuels at Sellafield ( formerly Windscale ) goes before an industrial tribunal today to claim that he was forced into resigning from the Sellafield works because he insisted on answers to his allegations that the plant 's laundry was inefficient and turned out ‘ clean ’ overalls that still contained traces of radioactivity . |
| 27 | Now , you , you 're , that 's a subjective feeling , you do n't actually know that there are neurones in your blood sugar level , but you , you certainly know when you need something to eat and it , it 's a kind of subjective feeling and it 's not farfetched in the least to claim that our genes have rigged our brain in that way to do that because obviously we 'd like to have more reproductive success if you know when you 're hungry than when you do n't and it may be that a lot of , in a lot of other ways genes affect our , our behaviour through similar erm effects , that is subjective feelings we have , often of an emotional nature to make us want to do certain things and an an and dislike doing others , and it may be that we , we 're really kind of lumbered with that . |
| 28 | Does he further agree that it is sheer hypocrisy to oppose privatisation in principle and to promise more nationalisation , yet to claim that there will still be privatisation proceeds to spend , as did a Labour Front-Bench Treasury spokesperson this morning ? |