Example sentences of "claimed that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commentators claimed that Mubarak was enraged and embarrassed by Iraq 's invasion , after he had announced in late July [ see p. 37632 above ] that Saddam had assured him that Iraqi forces would not move into Kuwait . |
| 2 | Reports issued by human rights organizations claimed that members of the civilian population remaining in Kuwait were being subjected to brutal torture and repression . |
| 3 | After less than a month with Tito 's partisans , Brig Fitzroy MacLean was brought out to write the ‘ blockbuster ’ report in which he claimed that Tito was the most important force , holding down 14 German divisions . |
| 4 | He had refused to go to bed on time , insisted on watching The Late Show on television , and claimed that Badger was ‘ not worthy ’ to lick him . |
| 5 | A BTA ( Bulgarian news agency ) report cited in Le Monde of March 12 claimed that Patriarch Maxim had collaborated with the security services under the communist regime . |
| 6 | The analysts also said that Shell might have to write off another £37 million , though the company claimed that efforts had been made to ensure the situation would not arise again . |
| 7 | His faction now claimed that Forlani and the Prime Minister , Giulio Andreotti , were acting with Bettino Craxi , leader of the Socialist Party ( PSI ) which with the DC formed part of the governing five-party coalition , to destroy the basis for " unified leadership " established at the February 1989 DC congress . |
| 8 | He claimed that Ferrara and Faenza had been promised to papal authority in 757 as part of the Exarchate of Ravenna before Desiderius became king and while he was still struggling for the crown with his rival King Ratchis . |
| 9 | Certain industrial consumers of high voltage electricity claimed that tariffs applied by the electricity board resulted in undue discrimination against them as compared with consumers of low voltage electricity , and sought recovery of sums alleged to have been overcharged . |
| 10 | Professor Smith , Chairman of BAe , claimed that synergy existed between the two companies in terms of ‘ engineering technology , marketing , purchasing and quality standards ’ . |
| 11 | By contrast , Beveridge and Nicks ( 1976 ) claimed that females tended to be left movers and males tended to be right movers . |
| 12 | The book claimed that cancer and other deformities were mistaken wills , were new organs to meet new needs dreamed up in the deep unconscious , and that therefore they should be treated not with surgery but with interest and affection — humanity was limiting its potential by cutting out the tumours , blasting the cells . |
| 13 | On Jan. 13 the government claimed that FPR forces were preparing another major invasion . |
| 14 | At the start of negotiations on Dec. 10 the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation claimed that Israel had agreed in Madrid to enter into " two track " negotiations . |
| 15 | The Rand Corporation 's report claimed that Israel had become a back door for Chinese acquisition of military technology . |
| 16 | However , the State Security Committee ( KGB ) claimed that Dove Trading International would have engaged simply in asset-stripping , using the profits to buy exportable Soviet commodities such as caviar , gold and diamonds for sale abroad for hard currency . |
| 17 | The government , denying UNITA 's accusations , gave details of the confinement of over 22,500 troops and claimed that proposals on the election process had been ready for approval on Sept. 10 , but that UNITA had taken an " obstructionist position " . |
| 18 | They claimed that records of tests which nurses said they carried out on Mrs Bennett had gone missing from the Royal , and details of her case presented to the coroner differed from what they had been told . |
| 19 | Barrio had stood unsuccessfully for the governorship of Chihuahua in 1986 , and claimed that Fernando Baeza Melendez of the PRI had won that election fraudulently . |
| 20 | The crown claimed that Manning had ferried Mr McVeigh 's IRA killers to and from the scene of the killing at his Boucher Road warehouse on May 22 , 1991 . |
| 21 | The Union of Democratic Forces ( UFD — see below ) and the Socialist and Democratic Popular Union ( UPSD ) claimed that constituency boundaries favoured rural areas so that expanding centres of population , such as Nouadhibou , would be under-represented . |
| 22 | In her obituary in The Times Evelyn Underhill claimed that Eva Gore-Booth would be remembered chiefly as a mystical poet , but it was W. B. Yeats [ q.v. ] who unjustly commemorated her — dreaming of that ‘ vague Utopia ’ , her body and life wasted by politics . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Iraq 's Oil Ministry claimed that Iraq was now in a position to export up to 2,000,000 bpd . |
| 25 | Then an Iraqi spokesman claimed that Iraq had mined the approach to Bandar Khomeini , though this was contradicted by Iran . |
| 26 | The two agencies claimed that Drexel had " wilfully , deliberately and systematically plundered the thrifts " through bribery , manipulation and misrepresentations concerning the value and liquidity of junk bonds . |
| 27 | The forged document , the so-called " Donation of Constantine " , which was drawn up before the mid-eighth century , when the papacy was anxious to use and control the Frankish leaders , claimed that Constantine had given his imperial palace of the Lateran and dominion over " the city of Rome and all the places , cities and provinces of Italy and the West " to Pope Sylvester , handing the pope his imperial insignia and symbols — the lance , sceptre , orb , imperial standards , purple-scarlet mantle , imperial pallium and tunic . |
| 28 | Philip Larkin ( in Required Writing ) said that part of the reason he wrote was that no one else had written what he wanted to read , and W. B. Yeats claimed that rhetoric emerges out of one 's quarrel with other people and poetry out of the quarrel with oneself . |
| 29 | Otis engineer William Mulholland said that the lifts were checked regularly and claimed that vandalism or abuse was responsible for a large number of reported breakdowns . |
| 30 | He claimed that communication professionals should not just be guided by codes of conduct but , more fundamentally , by universal principles of justice , solidarity and reciprocity . |