Example sentences of "[pron] claim [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advertisements and packages which claim that a product is full of ‘ natural goodness ’ , ‘ naturally better ’ or ‘ nature 's way ’ are largely meaningless and should not be used . |
| 2 | There is even a list of offices which claims that a dux was in charge of twelve civitates , but although this text has been seen as a Merovingian document , it is almost certainly a school-book , originating perhaps in the British Isles . |
| 3 | This option was rejected , however , by President Rodrigo Borja Cevallos , who claimed that a referendum would disrupt the economy , hold back investments and " interrupt the country 's productive process " . |
| 4 | It is for the party who claims that a clause satisfies the test of reasonableness to show that it does ( s 11(5) ) . |
| 5 | He still faces obdurate opposition from the premier of Tasmania , Robin Gray , who claims that a swing away from Hawke 's Labor Party in Tasmania ( against the trend throughout the rest of Australia during Saturday 's general election ) shows Tasmanians want the dam . |
| 6 | Summing up has begun at the High Court in the case of a woman who claims that a routine jaw operation left her paralysed for life . |
| 7 | Of great practical importance is s11(5) which provides that the onus is upon the party who claims that an exclusion clause is reasonable , to satisfy the court that it was . |
| 8 | One claimed that a manager in the West Midlands had offered a Christmas bonus to employees who had worked through strikes in Coventry and Wolverhampton . |
| 9 | To back this up they claim that a reliance on market forces has widened pay inequalities and also significantly increased unemployment . |
| 10 | And they claim that a council scheme to construct a concrete sea defence wall along the coastline will worsen the appearance of the area . |
| 11 | He claimed if a developer had to meet the cost of knocking it down each flat would cost £50,000 to build . |
| 12 | In this connection , he claims that an increase in the number of myelomas ( tumour of the bone marrow ) in the area during the 1970s would not have been expected as a result of iodine-131 contamination , but could have arisen from ingestion of polonium-210 , an alpha emitter . |