Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] claim that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 21 the South Korean authorities claimed that North Korean troops in the eastern sector of the heavily fortified border had fired upon a South Korean position . |
| 2 | The National Union of Civil and Public Servants claimed that Mr Newton had given the impression of a tendering exercise having taken place . |
| 3 | Some scholars claim that Luke was a doctor . |
| 4 | However , some reports claimed that France was also eager to sever the deal in order to limit its risk in a country already in arrears on foreign debt repayments . |
| 5 | Secondly , as we have seen , by allowing the NSA to eavesdrop on British communications ( as it does from the Morwenstow station in Cornwall which scoops up everything passing in and out of British Telecom 's ground station at Goonhilly ) , it allows British ministers to claim that GCHQ does not monitor calls within Britain . |
| 6 | In 1899 Silvester Horne in his Popular History of the Free Churches claimed that Councils ‘ came together under the shadow of a great common peril … whenever sacerdotal intolerance had to be resisted the machinery should be in existence … |
| 7 | Some analysts claimed that Zhu 's promotion was the first gain for moderates since the army crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy movement . |
| 8 | Official sources claimed that John Garang , the commander of the " Torit faction " of the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , and other leaders had escaped from the town and set up headquarters in Kajokaji , in the border region . |
| 9 | These bankers claimed that NVOCC bills were not true receipts of shipments , contracts of affreightment , or documents of title . |
| 10 | The government charged three executives of the Nairobi daily Standard with publishing false reports claiming that people had died attempting to resist the demolition team ; the charges were dropped in mid-July . |
| 11 | Many commentators claimed that Bush 's decision to reverse US policy on arms sales to Taiwan was largely motivated by his poor domestic standing in the run-up to the US presidential election in November . |
| 12 | She 's talking about her film Ghost , and US tabloid reports claiming that husband Bruce Willis showed up on the day of her crucial love scene with Patrick Swayze wielding a baseball bat . |
| 13 | Armenian officials claimed that tanks , heavy artillery and helicopters had been deployed . |
| 14 | Some of the more sensational reports claimed that Misrati had used his attractive young daughter to gain access to information . |
| 15 | Other cultures claimed that planting dragon 's teeth would cause a fierce army to burst forth from the soil , or that dragons were the form assumed by the cursed dead . |
| 16 | The two agencies claimed that Drexel had " wilfully , deliberately and systematically plundered the thrifts " through bribery , manipulation and misrepresentations concerning the value and liquidity of junk bonds . |
| 17 | New Agers claim that Christians have abdicated from ruling the planet in a life-sustaining way . |
| 18 | Other reports claimed that Iran had acquired four nuclear weapons from former Soviet Moslem republics . |
| 19 | Local authorities claim that investment is needed not only to build new homes and replace dilapidated housing , but also to renovate deteriorating buildings , and thus improve the existing housing stock . |
| 20 | [ 3 ] The Mexican authorities claimed that tapes of the pilot-to-controller communications were erased. [ 4 ] NTSSB was not invited ( as is customary ) to participate in the accident investigation . |
| 21 | Subsequent reports claimed that Li 's offer had effectively endorsed the status quo under which China retained control over the Aksai-Chin region in northern Kashmir , with India preserving sovereignty over the disputed state of Arunachal Pradesh . |