Example sentences of "[pers pn] claim that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 2 | Along the road , another glimpse of the Buller of Buchan : they claim that in stormy weather the waves crash over the top of the Buller , a full two hundred feet . |
| 3 | Yet with contradictory logic he claimed that at this level a contributory pension would stimulate retirement , since older people would withdraw from full-time work and would ‘ eke out ’ their pensions by |
| 4 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
| 5 | However , he claimed that in other respects clerks had retained distinct market advantages over manual workers . |
| 6 | He claimed that after 1987 he had been blackmailed by Papandreou into channelling interest on deposits from public corporations into Pasok election funds . |
| 7 | It claims that with such a tax incentive biofuels could eventually account for 5 per cent of overall fuel consumption in the Community . |
| 8 | It claims that since 1983 , over 25,000 clusters have been built , supporting more than 10m OpenVMS users worldwide . |
| 9 | It claims that from 80 to 100 per cent of residue analysis tests at 12 FDA laboratories failed to find 80 per cent of the pesticides used in agriculture . |