Example sentences of "[pron] claim be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rarely takes the babies into the garden because of the sewage , which she claims is a regular feature of the small sandy beach in North Queensferry . |
| 2 | Amid renewed protests aroused by the Serbian LC statement , the Serbian minority in Kosovo appealed on Feb. 19 for army protection against what they claimed was a threatened massacre by ethnic Albanians . |
| 3 | From captured government-owned television and radio stations in the capital , the rebels appealed to Venezuelans to join the rebellion against what they claimed was a corrupt government which had benefited a narrow elite at the expense of growing poverty among the population . |
| 4 | Liberal Democrat To keep up with the growth of the elderly population LibDems are hoping to increase health expenditure by two per cent compared to what they claim is a current increase of only half a per cent . |
| 5 | When I used to ask him where he was going he would tell me ‘ To Phucke ’ , which he claimed was a small town to the north of Inverness . |
| 6 | Some of those taking ; part were already in costume : Jilly Fox was wearing what looked like an Iranian chadour , contrived from a sheet , Karen Gray was dressed up as a nurse , and Bob Saxby who taught pottery was encased in a Michelin-man spacesuit which he claimed was an Arctic explorer 's sleeping bag . |
| 7 | But the locals did not always tolerate government by monks — perhaps suspecting what in this century has been established as a fact , that the abbey 's legal title to the authority it claimed was a tenth-century forgery . |
| 8 | The newspaper Noticias-El Diario printed photocopies of what it claimed was a 1961 report by Paraguayan police agent Pedro Prokopchuk to Antonio Campos Alum , the chief of political police . |
| 9 | On Oct. 20 Japan expressed regret over what it claimed was an alleged breach by France of an agreement not to disclose preparations for the shipment . |