Example sentences of "[pers pn] claim that the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | At first , they claimed that the only items missing from the murder scene were about £400 in cash and two car-tyre pumps . |
| 3 | They claimed that the ASEAN states which initiated the Zone plan intended it also to embrace other states located in the region . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It claims that the stringent tests applied to chemical additives would lead to unacceptable delays in the introduction of genetically-altered foods . |