Example sentences of "[unc] claim that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest that what I have summarized in this paragraph is what lies behind Kuhn 's claim that rival paradigms are ‘ incommensurable ’ . |
| 2 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 3 | The Indonesian government 's claim that traditional agriculture practised by the Dayak people is responsible has been universally rejected . |
| 4 | Although the overall levels of recall in this study are relatively uninformative because the subjects knew that there would be subsequent memory questions , the dissociation between fixation and recall strengthens Summala and Hietamiki 's claim that low levels of recall are not necessarily a result of failures of perception . |
| 5 | They have tried to take on board Ayer 's claim that theological language is meaningless , but have made of this meaninglessness a kind of superior divine logic . |
| 6 | The report also challenges the industry 's claim that 1 kg of fish is produced for every 2 kg of fish feed . |
| 7 | A preordained trend could drive several forms in parallel towards the same goal , thus making nonsense of Darwin 's claim that similar species must share a recent common ancestor . |
| 8 | The passage sets up a straightforward opposition between what de Man calls " two apparently incompatible chains of connotation " : De Man 's claim that these poles enter into a system of exchanges and substitutions becomes an argument that this opposition " also contains statements claiming the priority of metaphor in a binary system that opposes metaphor to metonymy " ( 1979 : 62 ) . |
| 9 | This seems to support Parsons 's claim that any division of labour requires an authority structure to organize and coordinate the various tasks involved . |
| 10 | The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on Sept. 1 claiming that political prisoners were being used as forced labour in prison factories producing for export in Liaoning Province , and rejecting the Chinese government 's claim that prison-made products were not for export . |
| 11 | The inclusion of special relativistic accounts of thermodynamics and electromagnetism go far to bear out the author 's claim that special relativity provides ‘ a foundation on which almost the whole of modern physical theory has been built ’ . |
| 12 | Mocking Mrs Thatcher 's claim that Conservative policies had achieved an economic miracle , Mr Kinnock said after 10 years with oil revenues not enjoyed by any of Britain 's competitors , the country had 2 million unemployed , the highest inflation , highest interest rates and biggest balance of payments deficit of the industrialised countries . |
| 13 | Reports quoting diplomats in Abidjan , the capital , said that the general 's claim that disaffected civilians were behind the affair seemed to be an attempt to discredit the opposition . |
| 14 | On April 30 , the Information Minister reasserted the government 's claim that human rights violations against Palestinians and other minorities had stopped . |
| 15 | This supports Labov 's claim that vernacular speech is more consistent and regular than corrected speech ( see 3.4 ) ; but however reasonable the claim , the original methods were not designed to show up such patterns in the data ( cf. 6.2.1 ) . |
| 16 | He rejected PEMEX 's claim that leaking hexane gas from the privately owned La Central cooking oil factory was primarily to blame . |
| 17 | He also dismissed Mr Robinson 's claim that excessive delay in the security screenings of recruits was a major factor in the decline of the part-time force . |
| 18 | Even when allowance is made for the authorities ' claim that many complaints are made for propaganda , this pattern is well-established . |
| 19 | A United States ' claim that those parts of the Convention that it favours have become customary international law has considerable implications for the international law-making process and for the third party rule . |
| 20 | The problem , then , is why one should accept Poulantzas ' claim that pertinent effects are a constant feature of capitalist social formations . |