Example sentences of "claim that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmentalists claim that industrial peat extraction is one of the most ecologically-ruinous forms of development in such areas , and point out that alternatives to peat exist for both fuel and horticultural purposes . |
| 2 | Monetarists therefore claim that monetary policy is an extremely powerful weapon for controlling aggregate demand . |
| 3 | Keynesians therefore claim that monetary policy is an extremely unreliable weapon for controlling aggregate demand . |
| 4 | Many black-rights groups claim that black deprivation is the result of continuing racism , and that reversing discrimination will rescue blacks from poverty . |
| 5 | Some sociologists claim that low levels of social mobility only provide movement within the system but that , on a bigger scale , this mobility can change the system ( Kahl 1970 ) . |
| 6 | They claim that female psychologists have something special to contribute by virtue of their sex , and they often see work done by women as feminist simply because women do it . |
| 7 | The makers claim that regular use of the NU-GRIP will delay the need for re-gripping , keeping your grips in peak condition throughout their life . |
| 8 | Officials claim that reasonable prices will be paid for the land that is purchased . |
| 9 | Opponents of the building programme " which in any case may not go ahead as planned because of a lack of funds " claim that political instability in Russia , antiquated technologies and economic pressures ( to cut corners on safety in order to produce much-needed electricity ) could lead to another major nuclear accident . |
| 10 | The report has drawn angry reactions from mining organizations , which claim that environmental improvements are under way in many sectors . |
| 11 | Critics often claim that non-offensive defence uses only complex and highly centralised technologies . |
| 12 | Schroedel and Schiff ( 1972 ) claim that deaf respondents were significantly more negative in attitude towards deafness than hearing respondents . |
| 13 | They claim that other problems are more urgent . |
| 14 | Stensland and Semonin ( 1982 ) even claim that severe drought and duststorms affected much of the USA in the 1950s , increasing the calcium and magnesium levels in soils , thereby partly explaining differences in precipitation acidity between the 1950s and 1970s . |
| 15 | Personally , I reject the Oxford claim that English Literature begins with Anglo-Saxon , and would not make it a required subject . |
| 16 | Some theorists claim that English spelling is a triumph of English muddling-through that achieves the best possible compromise between conflicting needs . |
| 17 | Durant and Fabb claim that Literary studies in action is a pedagogical tool which can be used either by individual students or groups of students working in isolation , or as a course book . |
| 18 | The authors claim that single dose treatment has not yet been proved adequate in this context . |
| 19 | Politicians often claim that human life is beyond economic calculation and must be given absolute priority whatever the cost . |
| 20 | Anti-nuclear campaigners sometimes claim that nuclear fission and its dangerous products are a purely manmade phenomenon . |
| 21 | It may be the case , as some transgenics junkies are claiming , that in 25 years ' time , all chickens on the market will be transgenic but this sounds uncannily similar , in its arrogant implausibility , to the famous Fifties claim that nuclear power would make electricity so cheap it could n't be metered . |
| 22 | Employers claim that hard-pressed firms in eastern Germany can not afford the pay rises . |
| 23 | Soviet spokesmen claim that American ambitions in the 1980s are not confined to cultivating relations of ‘ alignment ’ on a bilateral basis . |
| 24 | Traditionalists claim that foreign bulls are destroying the purity of the British Hereford . |
| 25 | Allied controls had been reduced and the Constitutional Court had dismissed an SPD claim that German membership of a European Army was uncon-stitutional . |
| 26 | They claim that large numbers of those who are diagnosed as food-intolerant are actually hyperventilators . |
| 27 | Critics claim that gay activists were closely involved in the creation of the curriculum , which is being pushed by Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez . |
| 28 | In this respect it is in agreement with those theorists who claim that social psychology should be an historical discipline . |
| 29 | Other investigators claim that endogenous prostaglandins may not be essential since gastric cytoprotection persists after pretreatment with prostaglandin synthesis inhibitors . |