Example sentences of "[noun sg] claim that [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of NEP the author of an article in the Bolshevik Encyclopaedia claimed that Russian orphanages were ‘ the result of capitalist exploitation of the masses ’ . |
| 2 | The council claims that potential investors are leaving because the city has hardly any land for industrial purposes , no suitable sites for an out-of-centre business park and insufficient land for housing . |
| 3 | The EC demands , for example , that water should contain only 50 millionths of a gram of nitrates per litre , whereas the World Health Organisation claims that 100 millionths is acceptable . |
| 4 | In April 1988 , when she reached the age of 21 , she issued a writ claiming that these abnormalities were the result of the negligence of medical staff who had in September 1966 carried out a gynaecological operation on her mother , then pregnant with the plaintiff . |
| 5 | While it is correct , therefore , for the Government to claim that poor families are not theoretically faced with marginal tax rates in excess of 100 per cent , it is clear that low-income families as a group face marginal tax rates of double , and sometimes treble , what the majority of the population pays . |
| 6 | The Buddhist Vesak festival on May 27-29 was marked by the official suspension of offensive operations by the army , but the government claimed that nine soldiers were killed by the LTTE during this three-day period . |
| 7 | Responding to Senegalese assertions in May 1990 that Mauritania was blocking efforts by the Organization for African Unity ( OAU ) and Egypt to find a solution to the border dispute between the two countries , the Mauritanian government claimed that 300,000 Mauritanians were being held in Senegal against their will . |
| 8 | The activities of the Nahda movement had in September severely strained relations with Algeria , as the government claimed that Tunisian fundamentalists were allowed to operate from bases in Algeria . |
| 9 | The Conservative Government claimed that these bodies were an unnecessary and highly expensive tier of administration . |
| 10 | The government claims that total spending is larger in other western states because many have a larger private sector ; in the United Kingdom it is just 0.8 per cent of total spending . |
| 11 | The government claims that economic growth is outstripping the increase in pollution . |
| 12 | Some send out letter claiming that special offers are available at this time of year . |
| 13 | Tradition claims that this figure is El Greco himself . |