Example sentences of "[pron] claim [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | REMEMBER the man who made a fortune out of a book which claimed that the Old Testament was really the story of how extra-terrestrials landed on earth or , to put it plainly , that Elijah 's still small voice was a wee green man speaking in his ear ? |
| 2 | The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on April 19 which claimed that the Chinese authorities had systematically used prison labour — including political prisoners — to produce cheap goods targeted for export to the United States , Japan and Germany . |
| 3 | Last year , the Authority was severely criticised by a Commons Energy Select Committee report which claimed that the nuclear industry had spent an inordinate amount of money on publicising itself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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doctrine which claims that an extra-worldly ‘ god ’ had already established this has been abandoned absolutely , and superseded by the conviction that this is a task for humanity itself . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher 's own fears were revealed in an interview with the New York Times in late January 1984 when she claimed that the long-term social security spending commitments were a financial ‘ time-bomb ’ for Britain . |
| 9 | She claimed that the British contribution to the budget was ‘ our money ’ which foreigners were taking away . |
| 10 | She claimed that the Northern Region could be one of them . |
| 11 | Opposition to the move , at the annual Scottish Prison Officers ' Association conference in Inverness yesterday came from the staff of Porterfield Prison , Inverness , who claimed that the moth-balled unit would not fulfil the role for which it was originally intended — to house disruptive prisoners . |
| 12 | Suggestions of a split were denied , however , by the FMLN leadership , who claimed that the complete halting of the offensive was dependent upon the acceptance of a mediation role by the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , who had appealed to the guerrillas to show restraint . |
| 13 | Three High Court judges rejected appeals by six motorists who claimed that the standard charge sheet was badly worded and therefore invalid in law . |
| 14 | The signing of START came amidst embarrassing revelations from US officials who claimed that the Soviet Union had attempted to circumvent the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces ( INF ) treaty by stationing SS-23 missiles in three Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 15 | The staff appraisal interviews were conducted by the Head and the Deputy Head ( Staff ) , who claimed that the main benefits were : a report on individual teachers , agreed with them , on their personal file ( to which the Head added ‘ they 're helping to write their own references ’ ) , and clarification for the Senior Management Team as to what INSET actions they ought to take on the individual teacher 's behalf . |
| 16 | People who claim that a noisy motorway has ruined village life are planning to carry on their campaign , despite accepting government compensation . |
| 17 | While pluralist writers can not be interpreted as suggesting that there is a perfect or even extensive distribution of political power through the mechanism of interest participation in government decision making , — ’ what pluralists do argue is that more groups are involved in making decisions than is suggested by Marxist and elitists , who claim that a particular class or group has a monopoly of influence . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They claimed that a forensic team had taken hundreds of items from the house . |
| 23 | At first , they claimed that the only items missing from the murder scene were about £400 in cash and two car-tyre pumps . |
| 24 | They claimed that the two laboratory investigations performed on the painting since it was slashed with a Stanley knife in 1986 showed discrepancies which seriously undermined their validity . |
| 25 | They claimed that the ASEAN states which initiated the Zone plan intended it also to embrace other states located in the region . |
| 26 | They claimed that the Western states hoped to use this scheme ‘ to establish a new regional bloc , which would be torn away from the mainstream of non-alignment ’ . |
| 27 | However , coalition leaders subsequently appeared to backtrack on the agreement , when they claimed that the proposed constitutional changes would only become effective once Suchinda had served his full four-year term . |
| 28 | And they claim that the knock-on effect is that weather patterns change . |
| 29 | They claim that the private ownership of capital provides the key to explaining class divisions . |
| 30 | An important criticism of Slote 's and Trueswell 's theories is put forward by Taylor and Urquhart in their research study Management and assessment of stock control in academic libraries in which they claim that the main predictor of future use in a research collection is not the frequency of past use but the imprint date of items in the collection . |