Example sentences of "[pron] claim that [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The award was criticized by the Guatemalan government which claimed that Menchu had been " supported by the enemies of Guatemala " . |
| 2 | For example , there was the Australian edition of the racy Sunday Sport which claimed that Kylie had been mauled by a killer shark while skin diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 3 | In the 1960s and 1970s a substantial body of evidence emerged which claimed that schools made little or no difference to pupils ' outcomes . |
| 4 | Keeling 's expulsion was particularly linked to a report in the Financial Times of June 27 , which claimed that Nigeria had already spent more than half the windfall earnings which it had received from higher oil prices during the Gulf crisis . |
| 5 | He was reacting to an open letter to the region which claimed that business had flourished under the Tories . |
| 6 | The JNA itself claimed that Slovenes had kidnapped two of its soldiers on May 23 , releasing them only when tanks and armoured vehicles arrived at the defence force headquarters near Maribor . |
| 7 | Due to her innovatory use of the stream-of-consciousness technique , she has often been juxtaposed with James Joyce and A. Virginia Woolf [ qq.v. ] , who claimed that Richardson had invented ‘ the psychological sentence of the feminine gender ’ . |
| 8 | An Iranian proposal on Dec. 17 , 1989 , for the exchange of all sick , wounded and disabled PoWs , was rejected by the Iraqi Foreign Minister , Tariq Aziz , who claimed that Iran insisted on " keeping the issue of war prisoners unresolved to … use it as a pressure card for bargaining " . |
| 9 | One of these two , inevitably , was his old pupil and sparring partner Alan Griffiths ( by then a Roman Catholic monk , Dom Bede Griffiths ) , who claimed that Lewis undervalued the doctrine of the Atonement . |
| 10 | The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era . |
| 11 | A more radical attack came with the work of Snyder , Bruck , and Sapin , who claimed that Morgenthau had adopted an overly rational account of human behaviour . |
| 12 | Most commentators attributed Smith 's acquittal to inconsistencies in Bowman 's evidence , to an ineffective performance by prosecutor Moria K. Lasch , and to the Dec. 2 ruling by Judge Mary E. Lupo to exclude the testimony of three other women who claimed that Smith had assaulted them during the 1980s . |
| 13 | On March 6 , in a GPC debate broadcast by Libyan television , Kadhafi heard from a delegate who claimed that Libya faced a great problem because of the large number of people who had switched from production to retailing , alleging that prices had risen four- or five-fold " and everyone is complaining " . |
| 14 | Someone 's turned up who claims that Zoser had a visitor the night before he killed the Zikr . ’ |
| 15 | At other times they claimed that Kylie had negotiated a one million dollar contract to return to Neighbours — a story which Kylie described as wildly untrue . |
| 16 | He claimed that drinking enhanced some of his performances . |
| 17 | Based on prices between 1980 and 1990 , Aziz estimated that Kuwait had stolen oil worth US$2,400 million and he claimed that Iraq had every right to " retrieve " these funds . |
| 18 | He claimed that Japan discriminated against American firms in its public-sector procurement practices , and announced that he was reviewing whether Japan had met the terms of a 1990 agreement with America to purchase supercomputers . |
| 19 | When Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence adviser , Ion Pacepa , defected to the United States in 1978 , he claimed that Ceauşescu had been engaged in a long-term strategic plan codenamed ‘ Red Horizon ’ . |
| 20 | When Archbishop Bradwardine preached before Edward III after English victories at Crécy and Neville 's Cross in 1346 he claimed that God granted victory to whomever he willed , and he had willed to grant it to the virtuous . |
| 21 | But he claims that VSEL avoided paying the money by introducing ‘ extraordinary items ’ into its 1990/91 accounts to reduce them below £100m . |