Example sentences of "[pron] claim that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , adding a little recycled paper to a package enables them to claim that the item is made of recycled materials and convey a sense of ecological responsibility . |
| 2 | The semantic theories argue that the description just given is realized in and enforced by the very vocabulary of law , so that it would be a kind of self-contradiction for someone to claim that the law provides right s beyond those established through mechanisms sanctioned by convention . |
| 3 | I am not , then , when I claim that the existence of God does not need to be proved , denying that we must show it to be reasonable to believe in God . |
| 4 | Reagan himself claimed that the SDI was defensive in character , since it was designed to dispose of nuclear weapons before they reached their target , and that it was in any event a programme of research in the first instance . |
| 5 | In January 1990 the international human rights organization , Amnesty International , issued a report which alleged that there were more than 800 political prisoners in South Korea and which claimed that the government had " deliberately disregarded " constitutional guarantees and other reforms introduced in 1987-88 designed to protect detainees from mistreatment or torture . |
| 6 | The Warriors were opposed by an anti-gambling , pro-Canadian Mohawk faction which claimed that the casinos were controlled by US organized crime and were used as fronts for cross-border smuggling operations . |
| 7 | This was contradicted by Zagreb radio , which claimed that the stone throwing was in self-defence after the police had attacked . |
| 8 | Typical of the Palestinian mood was a commentary broadcast on PLO central radio in Baghdad , Iraq , on Jan. 11 which claimed that the peace negotiations had reached a " level of absurdity " and described discussions between the USA and Israeli as a " dialogue among deaf people " . |
| 9 | The 1970s , however , produced a third approach : Transnationalism , which claimed that the state was no longer the dominant actor it had once been . |
| 10 | Vojvodina announced on May 8 that it would secede from Yugoslavia by June 26 , conflict continued between the JNA and the republic 's territorial defence force , which claimed that the JNA planned to occupy parts of Slovenia and hinder moves towards independence [ see p. 37790 ] . |
| 11 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to exact vengeance on Clinton , Nichols had issued a federal lawsuit which claimed that the Governor had had extra-marital affairs with at least five women , and that he had misused official funds in entertaining them . |
| 12 | The announcement was greeted sceptically in the National Assembly and by the press , which claimed that the surplus was illusory as the government trade figures were distorted by smuggling , variable exchange rates , barter deals and restrictions on imports . |
| 13 | The move was fiercely condemned by the PCD itself which claimed that the President 's action was unconstitutional . |
| 14 | The Mexican environmentalist organisation , Group of 100 , has attacked an article in the newspaper , Excelsior , which claimed that the group had changed its position on the international embargo on Mexican tuna . |
| 15 | Group of 100 president Homero Aridjis accused the Mexican fishing industry of inspiring the article , which claimed that the group , together with other Mexican environmentalist organisations , were to urge an end to the embargo . |
| 16 | The incident aroused official protests from both Syria and Czechoslovakia , which claimed that the tank shipment formed part of a 252-tank deal approved by the Czechoslovakian authorities before the 1991 constraint agreement came into force . |
| 17 | This hatred and distrust was fuelled when Arthur Kitson of Kitson Empire Lighting Company in Stamford introduced him to the famous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which claimed that the Jews were about to take over the world ( an example of modern mythologising for political purposes ) . |
| 18 | Numerous tropical hardwoods and hardwood products on sale in D-I-Y stores across Britain bear " eco labels " which claim that the wood comes from sustainable logging operations , or that the area in which they were felled is being reforested . |
| 19 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 20 | The move will outrage environmental organisations which claim that the Department of the Environment and the Scottish Office are bowing to pressure from vested interest groups — principally builders and lenders . |
| 21 | Only when we get to the seventh paragraph of the story do we hear Benn 's statement to the court , which claims that the PC said : ‘ You black bastard , this will teach you to mess about with the police . ’ |
| 22 | The resumption of Norwegian seal hunting in March has led to protests from the World Society for the Protection of Animals ( WSPA ) , which claims that the hunters repeatedly breach Norwegian and international regulations in the ways in which they capture and kill both adult seals and pups . |
| 23 | For the moment , we simply present a view which claims that the terms reference , presupposition , implicature and inference must be treated as pragmatic concepts in the analysis of discourse . |
| 24 | The director then comes up with an interpretation which claims that the dust is so fine that when it enters the lungs it is exhaled again . |
| 25 | During the 1520s , this theological orthodoxy came under challenge throughout Europe from the new ideas of the continental reformers , Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli , both of whom claimed that the truth of their new theology was evident from scripture and based upon a biblical authority which took precedence over tradition and papal decree . |
| 26 | According to the NCC , the offer was refused and she claimed that the bailiffs told her that they would kick her door down . |
| 27 | There she claimed that the boy , who went to the same school , raped her . |
| 28 | In order to incite her husband against her stepson , Sigistrix , she claimed that the prince intended to kill his father , to take over Burgundy and subsequently Italy . |
| 29 | Sometimes she claimed that the wine her friend had brought was ‘ sweeter than any you have given me ’ . |
| 30 | The killing led to rioting by African students who claimed that the officer wilfully shot at point-blank range . |