Example sentences of "[pers pn] claim that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice Heim was beginning her work on creativity in which she claimed that verbal reasoning tests ignored vital aspects of child potential . |
| 2 | Mrs Proetta , 50 , was the central figure in an ITV documentary in which she claimed that three IRA terrorists there were shot dead in cold blood by the SAS in 1988 . |
| 3 | The details of the comparative method are a little sketchy , but she claims that Melanesian practice is very similar . |
| 4 | She claims that two years later pupils began taunting her about her weight both in the playground and the classroom which reduced her to tears . |
| 5 | They claim that better language proficiency occurs when integrative motivation is prominent . |
| 6 | They claim that other problems are more urgent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They claim that this learning operates throughout life , and emphasize how early it starts : ‘ the little girl is praised and encouraged to exploit her cuteness . |
| 9 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 10 | They claim that large numbers of those who are diagnosed as food-intolerant are actually hyperventilators . |
| 11 | He claimed that capitalist society was polarizing ‘ into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other : Bourgeoisie and Proletariat ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 222 ) . |
| 12 | Driesch went on to isolate other fragments of the sea-urchin embryo and he claimed that each fragment , or combination of fragments , no matter how they were arranged , gave rise to a small but normal embryo . |
| 13 | He claimed that such irregularities invalidated the order and that it should accordingly be set aside . |
| 14 | And yesterday he claimed that former England captain Gary — never even booked in his career — was SOPPY . |
| 15 | His employment , and the creation of a deputy batteur de musique [ sic ] , permits us with difficulty to understand what M. Devismes meant to say when , in sacking Guenin , first violin , he claimed that extraordinary authority [ une force extraordinaire ] was necessary to direct [ diriger ] the orchestra . |
| 16 | Professor Fei Xiaotong of Beijing University was the chairman of the biggest Democratic party called the Democratic Alliance and he claimed that this party represented the interests of intellectuals and especially intellectuals involved in teaching ( Chan 1989 : 83 ) . |
| 17 | He claimed that this amount did have significant effects on the person 's capacity to remember ( though presumably it did not cause them to remember their past experiences as yeast cells ! ) . |
| 18 | He claimed that 85,000 people had used the range over a two-year period and that outdoor sport was acceptable on green belt land . |
| 19 | And he claimed that Nuclear Electric can never test for every possible accident or allow for human error . |
| 20 | He claimed that adding VAT to domestic fuel and power would help create a greener and cleaner world by stimulating the use of more energy efficiency measures , particularly in the home . |
| 21 | He claimed that residential homes cost about £170 a week per person . |
| 22 | He claimed that last year nearly 1 ½million working days were lost through unofficial strikes , and that 75 per cent of strikes were unofficial . |
| 23 | It claimed that some teachers in the primary school had allowed performance in the basic skills of reading , writing and arithmetic to be adversely affected by their inadequate understanding and hence uncritical application of child-centred , or informal , methods . |
| 24 | It claimed that some trees might have been listed as endangered through insufficient data , and decided that if the report were published , it could adversely affect efforts to sell species " mistakenly " included on the list . |
| 25 | It claims that protectionist farming policies have increased the burden of poverty in the developing world and subsidised the destruction of the British countryside . |
| 26 | It claims that individual growth can take different , nurturance- or achievement-oriented forms for women or men respectively , and offers women minimal growth programmes congruent with this division . |
| 27 | It claims that these lawyers are wrong , lacking in insight and perception , that they misconceive their own behaviour . |
| 28 | The EC is blocking pork and beef imports because it claims that American slaughterhouses are unsanitary ; the Americans are blocking some wine imports because they have not tested a drug used in its production . |
| 29 | He claims that major fiascos such as BCCI , Barlow Clowes and the Maxwell pension fraud would not have been possible without the connivance of offshore centres . |
| 30 | James Cannavino , IBM Corp senior vice-president and Personal Systems supremo says the company is getting 6,000 to 7,000 calls a day on its OS/2 number requesting details of OS/2 2.1 , which is due to ship on June 14 : he claims that current sales of OS/2 are running at around 200,000 copies a month . |