Example sentences of "claimed that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some reports in the Western press claimed that six Pakistani civilians were killed at Chakhoti . |
| 2 | He also claimed that Western imperialism was pressurizing the Soviet Union and China to break off links with Cuba and said that he was surprised by the terrible wave of " neoliberalism " currently " scourging " the world and especially Latin America . |
| 3 | A Washington Greenpeace spokesman claimed that existing oil production in Alaska leads to the dumping of waste and toxic chemicals , and pollutes the air . |
| 4 | A report by a commission of church historians published on Jan. 6 claimed that high-level French Roman Catholic clergy had helped protect the suspected war criminal Paul Touvier for almost 45 years during which he succeeded in winning a brief pardon in 1971 . |
| 5 | CND claimed that sixteen air bases were affected by a co-ordinated action over the two days . |
| 6 | Economists and politicians are already celebrating the disappearance of these huge external imbalances — even those who only a few years ago claimed that current-account deficits did not matter . |
| 7 | His employment , and the creation of a deputy batteur de musique [ sic ] , permits us with difficulty to understand what M. Devismes meant to say when , in sacking Guenin , first violin , he claimed that extraordinary authority [ une force extraordinaire ] was necessary to direct [ diriger ] the orchestra . |
| 8 | Alice Heim was beginning her work on creativity in which she claimed that verbal reasoning tests ignored vital aspects of child potential . |
| 9 | Other Norwegians argued that whaling was no more cruel than any other forms of hunting indulged in by anti-whaling nations , including fox- or deer-hunting , and claimed that explosive grenades fired by the harpoon guns ensured that the whale died instantly . |
| 10 | Gallup , for example , claimed that 37 per cent of voters made up their minds in the last week and 10 per cent decided on the day of the election . |
| 11 | He claimed that millions of dollars were being spent by the SADF to promote " moderate " black parties and organizations including churches , so as to help ensure continuing white minority domination in post-apartheid South Africa . |
| 12 | The report claimed that fraudulent claims by farmers might account for up to 8 per cent of the total spent on ewe premiums , or some 100,000,000 ECU a year ; meanwhile , it said , subsidised milk powder intended for calf feed was being illegally diverted into food for human consumption . |
| 13 | On Feb. 22 opposition sources on behalf of the National Committee for the Salvation of Iraq ( NCSI ) claimed that one of its members had been shot while leading a march protesting against civilian deaths resulting from the raid on the Amiriya bomb shelter [ see above ] . |
| 14 | Rajavi on April 7 claimed that one person had been killed . |
| 15 | She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man . |
| 16 | He said 18 parliamentary questions he had put down remained unanswered , after the Prime Minister claimed that all the financial details of the car company 's sale to British Aerospace had been released . |
| 17 | They charged Dad with obstructing the police , and claimed that all our injuries had been sustained in the struggle . |
| 18 | In England the king claimed that all his subjects owed fealty to him in some degree , and in due course this came to conflict with the possibility of any of his vassals owing liege homage to any but the king . |
| 19 | Several returns claimed that all TP hours were supervised : one claiming 630 hours of supervised practice . |
| 20 | He claimed that all three violated the law and Magna Charta and he presented two petitions , against illegal oaths and illegal imprisonment . |
| 21 | Israel claimed that two SLA soldiers died and three others were wounded in the Hezbollah attack , whereas Hezbollah claimed that all 10 members of the SLA patrol were either killed or injured . |
| 22 | The 1988 census had recorded Bhutan 's population as 1,370,000 , of whom 45 per cent were ethnic Nepalese , but in the following year King Jigme claimed that all but 28,000 Nepalese were illegal immigrants . |
| 23 | The King claimed that all the funds acquired through the passport sales had been accounted for . |
| 24 | Although , the Ministry of Correctional Services claimed that all political prisoners had been released , at least three acknowledged political prisoners were freed in the days following the launch of the campaign . |
| 25 | Among his close relatives , Gregory numbered bishops of Lyons , Clermont and Langres , and he claimed that all except for five bishops of Tours were related to him . |
| 26 | He criticised Mr Heseltine for failing to find a market for one single extra tonne of coal while Richard Caborn , the Labour chairman of the Commons energy select committee , claimed that all 31 pits would be closed within three to four years . |
| 27 | Officials in Moscow claimed that communist party buildings in Lithuania were rightfully the property of the Soviet Communist Party ( CPSU ) since the CPL 's declaration of independence in December 1989 [ see pp. 37128-29 ] . |
| 28 | Komsomolskaya Pravda claimed that democratic activists were being arrested for proclaiming Niyazov 's support for the coup . |
| 29 | After his defection to the United States , Pacepa claimed that Eastern Bloc scientists had developed a method , known as RADU , of irradiating an enemy and inducing cancerous tumours . |
| 30 | Unofficial figures put the number of dead at 39 , with 75 wounded and Sendero sources abroad claimed that 80 guerrillas had been killed and that over 60 were missing . |