Example sentences of "'s claim " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gangs exist as intimations of a power which cancels Ahmed 's claim to be a revolutionary leader . |
| 2 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 3 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 4 | Piaget 's claim that thinking is a kind of internalized action , exemplified in the assimilation-accommodation theory of infant learning mentioned above , is really a global assumption in search of some refined , detailed and testable expression . |
| 5 | Piaget 's claim is that the cognitive difficulties which infants come to resolve ‘ on the plane of action ’ in infancy reappear , in childhood , ‘ on the plane of [ verbal ] concepts ’ and have to receive the same kind of solution — by way of the direction , inhibition and co-ordination of cognitive acts . |
| 6 | But there is , perhaps , one crucial objection to the constructivist 's claim that moving the focus away from mental representations and towards mental actions will make the mind-body problem appear to us as less of a problem . |
| 7 | I have no quarrel with Searle 's claim that ‘ mental phenomena are caused by processes going on in the brain ’ . |
| 8 | The extra energy not being allowed to be expressed as an increase in c appears as a commensurate increase in f , that is : ( formula included ) where m is the photon equivalent mass ( yes I know it is related to E but I am trying not to confuse myself ) , E is the energy , and h is Mr Plank 's claim to fame . |
| 9 | And yet I would n't dismiss out of hand Auden 's claim that what he says of our family life holds as true of Coronation Street as of Lowndes Square . |
| 10 | Mocking Mrs Thatcher 's claim that Conservative policies had achieved an economic miracle , Mr Kinnock said after 10 years with oil revenues not enjoyed by any of Britain 's competitors , the country had 2 million unemployed , the highest inflation , highest interest rates and biggest balance of payments deficit of the industrialised countries . |
| 11 | ‘ Privatisation of electricity and water also puts a hole straight through the Government 's claim to be guardians of the environment . |
| 12 | He was responding to Monday 's claim in the Belfast Irish News that at least three dozen officers were members of a secret ‘ inner circle ’ which had the objects of ‘ removing ’ republican suspects and bringing down the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 13 | Mrs Kavanagh 's claim can not be , because I 've spent 25 years editing , arranging and completing his work . |
| 14 | It made no express reference to proceedings between a named representative of a class and a member of that class who might well have sharply different interests , as betweeen themselves , as to the substance of the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 15 | As to whether the defendant 's claim was barred by section 10 of the Limitation Act 1980 , the defendant 's right to claim contribution accrued on the date when the plaintiff was given judgment : 6 February 1986 . |
| 16 | He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car . |
| 17 | Some Baker supporters , and those backing John Major , Tom King and Michael Portillo , a long-term , right-wing long shot , dismissed Mr Heseltine 's claim with equal vigour . |
| 18 | There is some merit in Mrs Thatcher 's claim that too often Royal Commissions were appointed largely to avoid decisions or to postpone necessary tough action : she has not appointed one Royal Commission in her ten years in office . |
| 19 | And here the SL fails to match its maker 's claim of 8.3secs for the 0–60 dash , managing a consistent 8.6secs instead . |
| 20 | Lewis 's claim that ‘ the records ’ give us a stark choice about Christ — either he was a ‘ raving lunatic ’ or else ‘ He was , and is , precisely what He said ’ — is startling , to say the least . |
| 21 | The clash came as Mr Kinnock exploited the apparent contradiction between Mrs Thatcher 's claim that she did not know why Mr Lawson resigned and the former Chancellor 's assertion in last Sunday 's Walden interview that he had made it quite clear to the Prime Minister that Sir Alan Walter 's continued presence as her economic adviser was the only issue . |
| 22 | Malik 's claim took his defence lawyer , Stephen Ferrarone by surprise : ‘ Not my idea of the best defence , believe me . |
| 23 | However , no Pakistani official ever talks about the apparent hypocrisy of the government 's claim to be fighting narcotics when it refuses to change the special status of these tribal areas . |
| 24 | He denies the university 's claim that he cheated in two papers through having advance knowledge of the questions . |
| 25 | But Kingfisher 's claim contradicts figures from independent market researchers Verdict . |
| 26 | But Kingfisher 's claim contradicts figures from independent market researchers Verdict . |
| 27 | With strong evidence that the disclosures to date represent only the tip of the iceberg , the State President 's claim that a commission of inquiry would create a climate of distrust verges on self-parody . |
| 28 | But he does note that Heath 's claim that it was a clear victory was based on just over half the representatives supporting the Government . |
| 29 | Children 's claim . |
| 30 | DIEGO MARADONA 's claim that the World Cup draw was rigged was yesterday dismissed as ‘ stupid ’ by Fifa . |