Example sentences of "[adj] claim that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith Flett is right to claim that Labour needs active grassroots supporters to defeat the Tories ( Letters , 24 April ) . |
| 2 | Furthermore , Britain 's liberal capital market has allowed easier access for foreigners to British firms than vice versa and this has caused some to claim that British industry is vulnerable . |
| 3 | While it was obviously impossible to claim that literary art still sprang from the general community , this could be accounted for by the gulf between literature and life caused by the processes of industrialization . |
| 4 | In its 1991 annual report published on July 10 , the human rights organization Amnesty International claimed that human rights violations had occurred in 141 countries and had actually worsened in some cases . |
| 5 | Even during the phase of rampant textual materialism , Ricardou and others were still able to claim that avant-garde writing was inherently political by its very existence . |
| 6 | It is not at all clear why a plaintiff seeking material located in , say , France or Germany , but able to invoke United States jurisdiction ( available , perhaps , as a result of the long-arm claims to extensive jurisdiction made by Federal or State courts ) should be able to claim that American practices should apply as exclusively as in a purely domestic case . |
| 7 | A report in Middle East International of April 3 claimed that Palestinian casualties at demonstrations were declining , while shooting of targeted activists , often by Israeli undercover units , was increasing . |
| 8 | It may be the case , as some transgenics junkies are claiming , that in 25 years ' time , all chickens on the market will be transgenic but this sounds uncannily similar , in its arrogant implausibility , to the famous Fifties claim that nuclear power would make electricity so cheap it could n't be metered . |
| 9 | While it would be going too far to claim that social surveys such as these by themselves induced major political change , it would be dangerous to ignore their significant contribution . |
| 10 | Where armed groups operate , it is common for the police or military to claim that political suspects have died in an ‘ encounter ’ . |
| 11 | The Norwegian Meteorological Institute published a report in early September 1989 claiming that significant quantities of acid rain falling on Europe resulted from SO2 emissions in the USA . |
| 12 | Although I would be the last to claim that small businesses are without their problems , it is a great tribute to the entrepreneurs and to the small business men of this country that they can deal with difficult circumstances in such a way . |