Example sentences of "[pers pn] claim that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She claimed that the British contribution to the budget was ‘ our money ’ which foreigners were taking away . |
| 2 | She claimed that the Northern Region could be one of them . |
| 3 | She claims that the systematic patterns of individual behaviour were explicable as , ‘ personal attempts to increase benefits and reduce costs in an environment where the rewards and penalties associated with various actions are established by regime policies ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) . |
| 4 | They claimed that a forensic team had taken hundreds of items from the house . |
| 5 | At first , they claimed that the only items missing from the murder scene were about £400 in cash and two car-tyre pumps . |
| 6 | They claimed that the two laboratory investigations performed on the painting since it was slashed with a Stanley knife in 1986 showed discrepancies which seriously undermined their validity . |
| 7 | They claimed that the ASEAN states which initiated the Zone plan intended it also to embrace other states located in the region . |
| 8 | They claimed that the Western states hoped to use this scheme ‘ to establish a new regional bloc , which would be torn away from the mainstream of non-alignment ’ . |
| 9 | And they claim that the knock-on effect is that weather patterns change . |
| 10 | They claim that the private ownership of capital provides the key to explaining class divisions . |
| 11 | An important criticism of Slote 's and Trueswell 's theories is put forward by Taylor and Urquhart in their research study Management and assessment of stock control in academic libraries in which they claim that the main predictor of future use in a research collection is not the frequency of past use but the imprint date of items in the collection . |
| 12 | They claim that the huge crop will push down prices , and this , coupled with cheap imported plums from Spain will mean it simply wo n't be worth picking the fruits . |
| 13 | He even had a CND sticker in the back window of his car , a Jaguar XJ4.2 — and he claimed that no other Jaguar in the country displayed one . |
| 14 | After his walkout Paisley stated that the DUP would not rejoin the talks until discussion of Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish Republic 's Constitution , which established a territorial claim to Northern Ireland , was given priority , and he claimed that the two Articles had been placed " at the bottom of the agenda " . |
| 15 | He claimed that the new contract would be seen as a valuable asset to any new owners . |
| 16 | Most importantly , he claimed that the new science was not the progeny of earlier science but the outgrowth of developments in the practical arts . |
| 17 | He claimed that the early promise that chemical quantum mechanics would prove to be a powerful tool has yet to be realised . |
| 18 | He claimed that the actual increase in numbers of cases granted legal aid was only 5 per cent this year — from 271,759 to 288,000 — and cited a Scottish Office report on spending plans which forecast a peak in claims in 1992-93 , followed by a decline . |
| 19 | Thus the US State Department openly criticised the Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , for a Jan. 14 speech in which he claimed that the occupied territories would be used to settle future Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | He claimed that the allied forces had achieved " general air superiority " over Iraq and Kuwait ; that enemy nuclear weapons reactors were " finished " ; that Iraqi aircraft were able to operate from only five of the country 's 66 airfields ; and that Iraqi air defence radar had been reduced by 95 per cent . |
| 21 | He claimed that the military significance of Porkkala for the USSR had been similar to that of Guantanamo for the United States . |
| 22 | He claimed that an expanded L Detachment could on the same night simultaneously attack the ten most important aerodromes in Libya and Cyrenaica , the bulk storage points on the enemy lines of communication and the main airfields in Crete , Rhodes , Greece and possibly Sicily . |
| 23 | It claimed that a large amount of money would be the immediate reward if you were delivered unharmed to the nearest British post . |
| 24 | In a report on Feb. 14 the New York-based human rights group Helsinki Watch called on Tudjman to investigate and bring to an end serious human rights violations in Croatia , where it claimed that the new government had been executing and torturing detainees and unarmed citizens and destroying property . |
| 25 | In 1986 , TV Guide published a cover story entitled ‘ Why American TV is So Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda ’ , in which it claimed that the Libyan hit team story was really a figment of a KGB campaign to spread alarm and ‘ to destabilise public opinion in the west ’ . |
| 26 | It claims that the normal way to establish that a person has authority over another person involves showing that the alleged subject is likely better to comply with reasons which apply to him ( other than the alleged authoritative directives ) if he accepts the directives of the alleged authority as authoritatively binding and tries to follow them , rather than by trying to follow the reasons which apply to him directly . |
| 27 | It claims that the stringent tests applied to chemical additives would lead to unacceptable delays in the introduction of genetically-altered foods . |
| 28 | Similarly , he claims that a powerful test in China in May was to blame for various natural disasters in Central Asia and an earthquake in California . |
| 29 | He claims that the last shelf time period recorded on a book is highly predictive of future use , and gives a description of a simple method by which such information is examined and analysed to provide a basis for the weeding of stock . |