Example sentences of "[pers pn] claimed that the [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 | At first , they claimed that the only items missing from the murder scene were about £400 in cash and two car-tyre pumps . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They claimed that the ASEAN states which initiated the Zone plan intended it also to embrace other states located in the region . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | He claimed that the new contract would be seen as a valuable asset to any new owners . |
| 9 | Most importantly , he claimed that the new science was not the progeny of earlier science but the outgrowth of developments in the practical arts . |
| 10 | He claimed that the early promise that chemical quantum mechanics would prove to be a powerful tool has yet to be realised . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He claimed that the military significance of Porkkala for the USSR had been similar to that of Guantanamo for the United States . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |