Example sentences of "[pron] claim that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And he claimed that Nuclear Electric can never test for every possible accident or allow for human error . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | He claimed that residential homes cost about £170 a week per person . |
| 34 | He claimed that last year nearly 1 ½million working days were lost through unofficial strikes , and that 75 per cent of strikes were unofficial . |
| 35 | It claimed that some teachers in the primary school had allowed performance in the basic skills of reading , writing and arithmetic to be adversely affected by their inadequate understanding and hence uncritical application of child-centred , or informal , methods . |
| 36 | It claimed that some trees might have been listed as endangered through insufficient data , and decided that if the report were published , it could adversely affect efforts to sell species " mistakenly " included on the list . |
| 37 | It claims that protectionist farming policies have increased the burden of poverty in the developing world and subsidised the destruction of the British countryside . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | It claims that these lawyers are wrong , lacking in insight and perception , that they misconceive their own behaviour . |
| 40 | The EC is blocking pork and beef imports because it claims that American slaughterhouses are unsanitary ; the Americans are blocking some wine imports because they have not tested a drug used in its production . |
| 41 | He claims that major fiascos such as BCCI , Barlow Clowes and the Maxwell pension fraud would not have been possible without the connivance of offshore centres . |
| 42 | James Cannavino , IBM Corp senior vice-president and Personal Systems supremo says the company is getting 6,000 to 7,000 calls a day on its OS/2 number requesting details of OS/2 2.1 , which is due to ship on June 14 : he claims that current sales of OS/2 are running at around 200,000 copies a month . |
| 43 | James Cannavino , IBM Corp senior vice-president and Personal Systems supremo says the company is getting 6,000 to 7,000 calls a day on its OS/2 number requesting details of OS/2 2.1 , which is due to ship on June 14 : he claims that current sales of OS/2 are running at around 200,000 copies a month . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 ’ . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | As we pointed out then , although a stretch of discourse can appear to be largely concerned with a single individual , or one discourse subject , so that the discourse may be loosely reported as being ‘ about ’ that individual , this should not lead us to claim that all discourses are about single individuals or can be given convenient one-word titles . |