Example sentences of "can claim that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Panama , as a sovereign state , can claim that any interference in its domestic affairs by another country contravenes the UN charter , says Paul Wilkinson , Professor of International Relations at St Andrew 's University . |
| 2 | We can claim that the theology of the Cross forces us now to talk of God in very different ways . |
| 3 | They consider that unless the farming methods are tackled , no clothing industry can claim that its product is ecologically sound . |
| 4 | If a new application is submitted , even with very minor alterations , the applicant can claim that previous objections are not relevant . |
| 5 | Logically , these latter producers can claim that they contribute to the value of exports , and are therefore entitled to part of the proceeds . |
| 6 | There are even one or two hints in the case law that some employees can claim that they have been constructively dismissed if they are denied job satisfaction . |
| 7 | Whilst researchers will only be able to specify the ways in which large-scale social and economic restructuring has led to particular types of local political practice through empirical study , we can claim that there has been an increase in local political activity , in contrast to the relatively homogeneous picture presented in the 1950s and early '60s . |
| 8 | Finally , officials can claim that business ethics are morally superior to mere formal legalism . |
| 9 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 10 | Notwithstanding the gloomy economic prospects for the year ahead and the blighted advertising market , ITN can claim that news is even more important than ever . |
| 11 | I can claim that I did , and that I never breached that trust , assuming that I had any information of a sufficiently intriguing character to make it worthwhile betraying a friend . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Saddam can claim that he alone has resisted the greatest military power in the world plus allies for longer than any Arab states ever resisted Israel , or anybody . |
| 13 | Given these kind of records , it is perhaps not too surprising that Blondel can claim that the implementation of party programmes is " spasmodic and half-hearted " and that the influence of programmes on policy-making is " rather weak " . |
| 14 | I think I can claim that the whole last part is bound to make an impact on our musical public ; at least , if I compare it with what has been said recently on the same problem by Hanslick and others … |
| 15 | One must clearly study the variation of a species throughout its geographical range , at one moment in geological time , before one can claim that it has changed into something else . |
| 16 | I can make what is perhaps not a usual boast in Scotland : I can claim that some of my best friends are Conservatives . |
| 17 | Equally Sinn Fein can claim that talks which exclude them are undemocratic and useless . |
| 18 | If the employer pays the salary but refuses the services of the worker and this refusal offends his/her personality ( e.g. , lowers his/her reputation amongst fellow workers , prevents his/her professional development etc. ) , the worker can claim that the employer be condemned to pay him/her compensation and/or to really employ him/her ; in the second case , the employer will also be condemned by the same judgement to a pecuniary sanction and to detention in case he does not employ the worker . |
| 19 | Hence , although the Council can claim that their guidance documents have contained some reference to equal opportunities and that guidelines from the Secretary of State have included reference to issues of gender and the needs of ethnic minority children there does appear , however , in the words of Shah ( 1990:315 ) to be no consensus . |
| 20 | It is because , if mania represents an overcoming of the lost primal mother by means of triumphant substitution of the son for the mother , then megalomania represents , not only a denial of the passive love of the father ( I do not love him , I love myself ) , but also an unconscious identification and fusion with him ( it is in this sense that our manic autobiography above can claim that ‘ in a sense I am God ’ , etc . ) . |
| 21 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 22 | Faced with examples like this , the semanticist has traditionally taken one of two tacks : he can either hold that there are two distinct senses of the word and , which is thus simply ambiguous , or he can claim that the meanings of words are in general vague and protean and are influenced by collocational environments . |