Example sentences of "report claimed that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The report claimed that fraudulent claims by farmers might account for up to 8 per cent of the total spent on ewe premiums , or some 100,000,000 ECU a year ; meanwhile , it said , subsidised milk powder intended for calf feed was being illegally diverted into food for human consumption .
2 The Munn Report claimed that these positions could be reconciled , but Skilbeck says of the three educational ideologies : ‘ each is a powerful force in contemporary educational thought and practice … each can be seen as a comprehensive and well-articulated position ’ .
3 The report claimed that those killed had been celebrating Id al-Fitr .
4 On April 30 , however , security forces broke up a rally by supporters of the UDPS , and unofficial reports claimed that two people were killed .
5 Some reports claimed that Egyptian forces had been sent to Saudi Arabia even before the summit , at which Egypt formally undertook to send troops as part of a pan-Arab force .
6 Some reports claimed that regular Lebanese forces had fired on Israeli troops positioned within the " security zone " .
7 Some Western reports claimed that Iraqi troops had been told that they were invading Israel and were deeply distressed when they found themselves in another Arab state .
8 However , through their various media organs , Aoun and Geaga offered contradictory interpretations of the peace pact and a number of press reports claimed that both sides were using the ceasefire as a means of consolidating their defensive lines .
9 The initial reports claimed that local fisherman had killed the dolphins in order to protect their fishing grounds and for dolphin meat , which was divided up amongst Fukue islanders in the East China Sea off Nagasaki .
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