Example sentences of "[pron] claim that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice Heim was beginning her work on creativity in which she claimed that verbal reasoning tests ignored vital aspects of child potential . |
| 2 | architect issued penultimate and final certificates which were unpaid by employer who claimed that certain work was defective . |
| 3 | In this respect it is in agreement with those theorists who claim that social psychology should be an historical discipline . |
| 4 | The details of the comparative method are a little sketchy , but she claims that Melanesian practice is very similar . |
| 5 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
| 6 | They claim that better language proficiency occurs when integrative motivation is prominent . |
| 7 | They claim that this learning operates throughout life , and emphasize how early it starts : ‘ the little girl is praised and encouraged to exploit her cuteness . |
| 8 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 9 | He claimed that capitalist society was polarizing ‘ into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other : Bourgeoisie and Proletariat ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 222 ) . |
| 10 | Driesch went on to isolate other fragments of the sea-urchin embryo and he claimed that each fragment , or combination of fragments , no matter how they were arranged , gave rise to a small but normal embryo . |
| 11 | His employment , and the creation of a deputy batteur de musique [ sic ] , permits us with difficulty to understand what M. Devismes meant to say when , in sacking Guenin , first violin , he claimed that extraordinary authority [ une force extraordinaire ] was necessary to direct [ diriger ] the orchestra . |
| 12 | Professor Fei Xiaotong of Beijing University was the chairman of the biggest Democratic party called the Democratic Alliance and he claimed that this party represented the interests of intellectuals and especially intellectuals involved in teaching ( Chan 1989 : 83 ) . |
| 13 | He claimed that this amount did have significant effects on the person 's capacity to remember ( though presumably it did not cause them to remember their past experiences as yeast cells ! ) . |
| 14 | And he claimed that Nuclear Electric can never test for every possible accident or allow for human error . |
| 15 | He claimed that adding VAT to domestic fuel and power would help create a greener and cleaner world by stimulating the use of more energy efficiency measures , particularly in the home . |
| 16 | He claimed that last year nearly 1 ½million working days were lost through unofficial strikes , and that 75 per cent of strikes were unofficial . |
| 17 | It claims that protectionist farming policies have increased the burden of poverty in the developing world and subsidised the destruction of the British countryside . |
| 18 | It claims that individual growth can take different , nurturance- or achievement-oriented forms for women or men respectively , and offers women minimal growth programmes congruent with this division . |
| 19 | He claims that industrial society is characterized by boring and monotonous work , lack of freedom for the individual to control his or her own life and a compulsion to acquire material possessions , directed by the mistaken belief that they bring happiness and fulfilment . |
| 20 | But now he claims that new material has come to light , from British and former Soviet KGB archives , which he believes casts doubt on Lord Aldington 's account of events . |
| 21 | He claims that serious work on inner-city policy began in 1979 : but it was , undoubtedly , the riots of 1981 , coinciding with the biggest drop in employment and job vacancies since the war , which gave impetus to the new approach . |
| 22 | He claims that widespread poverty amongst elderly people has been relatively ignored by academics and politicians , although it has resulted in the ‘ social creation of dependent status ’ . |
| 23 | He claims that limiting greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere by such methods would be cheaper than using nuclear power or energy-efficiency as a means of combating global warming . |