Example sentences of "[pron] claim that [pos pn] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She claimed that their action had been ill-considered and ironic coming so soon after the launch of their customer service charter . |
| 2 | In other business the Supreme Court upheld the convictions of eight members of the nationwide Sanctuary Movement , who claimed that their rights had been violated when agents had infiltrated church services to uncover evidence that they were harbouring illegal aliens from Central America . |
| 3 | Denis Healey , nevertheless , had to contend with a wide range of critics , from socialists such as Benn who claimed that his successes resulted from such right-wing nostrums as a wage freeze and cutting public spending , to the monetarists of the Policy Studies Committee who attacked him for being far too dirigiste . |
| 4 | The ODP-MT victory in the legislative elections enabled him to claim that his credibility had been increased . |
| 5 | He claimed that his life had been a misery since he sold the recording of Di talking to her friend James Gilbey . |
| 6 | As proud of his Keighley ancestry on both sides as he was of his ‘ liberal principles ’ , he claimed that his ancestors had fought at Flodden . |
| 7 | Search consultants themselves claimed that their business did markedly increase — in the number of new clients as well as in terms of the number of individual assignments — as a result of the Big Bang , and that the level of their work has continued to grow steadily , in spite of subsequent national economic changes . |