Example sentences of "[pron] claims [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oil pollution from the Gulf War has left stretches of the Saudi coastline " beyond repair " , according to the environmental group , Greenpeace , which claims that the Saudi government is not doing enough to clean up the damage . |
| 2 | The Unit is highly critical of the White Paper , ‘ Training for Employment ’ which claims that the long-term unemployed share a combination of negative characteristics such as : lack of skills and motivation ; inappropriate skills ; problems of numeracy and literacy ; lack of qualifications ; ignorance of ‘ in-work ’ benefits ; unrealistic expectations of pay levels ; lack of flexibility and adaptability and dependence on state benefits . |
| 3 | The notion among Conservatives that citizenship is based upon participation in free markets can be connected with consumption-sector theory , which claims that the main cleavages in British society , cutting across class divisions , are based upon consumption patterns . |
| 4 | Progress here can come about only when the deeply rooted doctrine which claims that an extra-worldly ‘ god ’ had already established this has been abandoned absolutely , and superseded by the conviction that this is a task for humanity itself . |
| 5 | She claims that the systematic patterns of individual behaviour were explicable as , ‘ personal attempts to increase benefits and reduce costs in an environment where the rewards and penalties associated with various actions are established by regime policies ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) . |
| 6 | It is the success of these petitions that Mrs Whitehouse feels are a more realistic indicator of her support , and she claims that the 31,000 or so members who pay the small annual subscription are but ‘ the tip of the iceberg ’ . |
| 7 | A man may be willing to believe another who claims that a particular woman has a liking for sado-masochism or has other sexual preferences . |
| 8 | This was set up to promote the theory and findings of Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer , who claims that the real causes of cancer are mental conflict experienced in isolation . |
| 9 | It claims that the normal way to establish that a person has authority over another person involves showing that the alleged subject is likely better to comply with reasons which apply to him ( other than the alleged authoritative directives ) if he accepts the directives of the alleged authority as authoritatively binding and tries to follow them , rather than by trying to follow the reasons which apply to him directly . |
| 10 | It claims that the small British plastics recycling sector is receiving German waste either free of charge or with incentive payments of up to £220 per tonne , against which the plastic industry 's own organization set up to collect waste , Recoup , is unable to compete . |
| 11 | It claims that the stringent tests applied to chemical additives would lead to unacceptable delays in the introduction of genetically-altered foods . |
| 12 | Similarly , he claims that a powerful test in China in May was to blame for various natural disasters in Central Asia and an earthquake in California . |
| 13 | He claims that the last shelf time period recorded on a book is highly predictive of future use , and gives a description of a simple method by which such information is examined and analysed to provide a basis for the weeding of stock . |