Example sentences of "claimed [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The row broke out in the Commons after Tory MP Robin Squire claimed Labour party propaganda had been found beside a Commons photocopier . |
| 2 | Things like the Great Depression and the big Napier earthquake which claimed 256 lives had the country in a gloomy , harsh grip . |
| 3 | Of the all-rounders , wicketkeeper Marsh , who claimed 70 victims , weighed in with 910 runs at 33.7 and Ellison 415 plus 47 wickets , while Fleming averaged 31.62 with the bat and showed a remarkable flair for bagging high-class , if not always low-cost , wickets . |
| 4 | The Mkhedrioni , who opposed the Georgian government as insufficiently militant in securing Georgia 's independence , claimed 7,000 members . |
| 5 | The Church claimed that lip service to catholic unity , which liberalism still professed , meant nothing without the instruments to enforce it : that the contemplative life of the regular clergy was essential to a catholic country ; that liberalism and catholicism were incompatible , in spite of liberal assertions to the contrary . |
| 6 | ANDES claimed that education , designed for a developed urban society , continued to be the privilege of a narrow elite and irrelevant to the needs of the majority . |
| 7 | He claimed that Electronics ' actions in withholding money due to Magnetics were prejudicial to the minority shareholders . |
| 8 | They claimed that rejection of eggs of the great spotted cuckoo Clamator glandarius by magpie Pica pica hosts varied according to the duration of sympatry . |
| 9 | Local people claimed that dust blown from the drying tailings pond ( though lake would be a more accurate description , as it covered 148 acres ) left after the mine closed was harming human and animal health in the area . |
| 10 | In a speech , shortly before leaving his position as Secretary of State for Social Security in 1989 , John Moore claimed that poverty in the ‘ old , absolute sense of hunger and want ’ had been eliminated . |
| 11 | A Press Trust of India ( PTI ) report on Feb. 21 claimed that Congress ( I ) had threatened to withdraw its support for the government unless the five ministers were removed . |
| 12 | During a four-day smog in West Berlin in February 1987 the authorities claimed that traffic bans and cuts in industrial emissions of up to 60 per cent kept 500 tonnes of carbon monoxide , 40 tonnes of oxides of nitrogen , S tonnes of soot and 0.6 tonnes of sulphur dioxide out of Berlin 's air ( figure 7.10 ) . |
| 13 | The government had offered £20,000 for Montrose and Macleod claimed that reward ; but his perfidious abuse of the age-old tradition of Highland hospitality brought him only 400 bolls of oatmeal , and the eventual ruin of his clan . |
| 14 | In a recent letter to Nature ( 1991 , 354 , 114 ) three Italian scientists claimed that thixotropy , a property of certain gels to become liquid on the application of some external force , could account for the ‘ congealed blood ’ becoming liquid as the Archbishop agitates the phial . |
| 15 | Researchers claimed that transplant , combined with the drug , AZT , might have eliminated the virus in one patient . |
| 16 | In complete contrast Conservative and Labour partisans claimed that television news , particularly BBC news , was biased against their party . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister has returned from Maastricht and claimed that federalism and the opening of the door to a delayed decision on monetary union is the successful result of his able negotiations . |
| 18 | TODAY launched a campaign after customers claimed high-pressure selling techniques were used to push them into signing misleading agreements . |
| 19 | In 160 first-class matches — 142 of them for Northants — he claimed 226 catches and 76 stumpings , 59 of those dismissals coming in his best year , 1951 . |
| 20 | An estimated 26 out of 41 prisoners who claimed political status were reported to have started an " indefinite hunger strike " on March 9 in a prison in Santiago , in protest over the character and conduct of their trials . |
| 21 | By contrast a third smaller study claimed depressed PGE 2 synthesis , but surprisingly found no relation between production of PGE 2 and polymorphonuclear cell infiltrate . |
| 22 | On 6 July there was an explosion of the North Sea Piper Alpha oil rig which claimed 167 lives . |
| 23 | Mr Beveridge 's comments came as a press report claimed Scottish Enterprise was facing a crisis of morale . |
| 24 | He claimed foreign crews were paid a pittance and the EC must take a stand by refusing to do business until minimum standards were met . |
| 25 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 26 | The SAS claimed forty aircraft , many of them Junkers 52 transporters which Rommel relied on for bringing up supplies . |
| 27 | The Sadducees claimed direct descent from Zadok who was the High Priest at the time of King Solomon ( 1 Kings 2:35 ) . |
| 28 | He claimed top spot with multi-million dollar hits such as JFK . |
| 29 | In a similar revolutionary manner Paracelsus confronted the contemporary craze for seeing witchcraft everywhere and claimed this phenomenon for psychiatry . |
| 30 | His mother was a niece of his father , and young Frank claimed this relationship made him his own great-uncle . |