Example sentences of "have claimed that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report published by the University of Bucharest has claimed that the country is " saturated " with pollution , as a result of inadequate or unenforced controls during the Ceausescu years . |
| 2 | The United States Administration 's Office of Technology Assessment has claimed that the US could achieve cuts of up to 35 per cent in carbon dioxide emissions over the next 25 years without " major technological breakthroughs " or recourse to swingeing levies on energy consumption . |
| 3 | Popper has claimed that the possibility of understanding meaning as in the sentence alone , independent of its social context , increased with the growth of literacy . |
| 4 | Eurotunnel dismisses these fears as unwarranted but international expert on terrorism , Professor Paul Wilkinson , has claimed that the Tunnel could attract tourists ‘ like wasps to a jampot ’ . |
| 5 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 6 | A pundit of the Electoral Reform Society , noting that the French Socialist manifesto produced for the 1981 general election envisaged twenty-one separate reforms , has claimed that the STV would have enabled voters to show which of them they approved of . |
| 7 | Mr Ward has claimed that the £5.2m was a legitimate payment for ‘ valuable services ’ to Guinness during the Distillers takeover . |
| 8 | Of course , ‘ capitalism ’ is not identified as such , just as Barthes ( 1972 ) has claimed that the bourgeoisie is ‘ the social class which does not want to be named ’ , and just as the YCs themselves preferred the label of ‘ ordinary ’ to a class identification . |
| 9 | BG has claimed that the Ofgas plan could cost £3 billion over ten years and cause widespread disruption to the business during the transition period . |
| 10 | FOR YEARS , the SMG has claimed that the police do not deal effectively with racial attacks , that they are slow to respond , reluctant to arrest , and ineffective in presenting the case against alleged assailants in court . |
| 11 | Thirdly , as regards the Science Policy Research Unit 's proposal to assess engineering research , no member of the unit has claimed that the project was turned down by the Social Science Research Council because of ‘ lobbying by outsiders ’ . |
| 12 | In response , the President of Inhutani II has claimed that the project will benefit the local people . |
| 13 | Thus , Prest has claimed that the assumption about indirect taxes can be justified only where the supply is perfectly elastic ( leaving aside the case of totally inelastic demand ) , whereas the assumption about income tax can be justified only when factor supplies are completely inelastic . |
| 14 | The rebel government effectively in charge of the Pacific island of Bougainville has claimed that the island has been seriously polluted by the huge Panguna copper mine . |
| 15 | Farman has claimed that the assertion of the chemical industry that its activities would only contribute 1 per cent to the green-house effect over the next 120 years are " seriously underestimated " . |
| 16 | For the Labour Party , Mr Kaufman said that the report was ‘ an insult and an outrage ’ , while Mr David Steel for the Liberals is reported as having claimed that the report was ‘ totally inadequate ’ , and that ‘ The secret state is out of control and democracy is threatened . ’ |
| 17 | The itch is not a painful one and James I is said to have claimed that the itch was fitted only for kings , so exquisite was the enjoyment of scratching . |
| 18 | The Haldane Society was reported in October 1988 to have claimed that the police had devised ‘ techniques and procedures ’ to bypass or avoid the safeguards in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act . |
| 19 | In Long v. Lloyd ( 1958 C.A. ) the seller had claimed that the lorry was in excellent condition and was capable of 40 m.p.h. and 11 m.p.g . |
| 20 | The prosecution had claimed that the furniture factory boss resolved to kill his second wife Helen when she walked out on him . |
| 21 | In 1919 , Longstaff Dennison had claimed that the NCOAP was going to be ‘ a trade union for pensioners ’ . |
| 22 | The insurance company had claimed that the system for calculating punitive awards — to punish wrongdoers and deter future misconduct — was so irrational that it violated the company 's constitutional right to be treated fairly . |
| 23 | Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way . |
| 24 | Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way . |
| 25 | US opposition to the convention had been co-ordinated by the Industrial Biotechnology Association , whose director , Richard Godown , had claimed that the treaty " was designed to hurt an industry that the US dominates , so that other countries may impede the US industry 's growth while developing their own industries using our technology " . |
| 26 | The last sentence refers to an earlier conversation between Green and Hickson in which the latter had claimed that the Cambridgeshire LEA would not be prepared to support the work of the District , whereas the Board had been offered a grant of £100 for 1931–32 and the prospect of increased grant-aid in subsequent years . |
| 27 | Earlier Mr Garel-Jones had claimed that the rebels were ‘ perverse and reckless Europhobes . ’ |
| 28 | On July 13 the Guardian , quoting US officials , had claimed that the Bush administration had approved a list of 100 targets for possible air strikes against Iraq . |
| 29 | The West German financial community had claimed that the tax had led to a flight of capital out of the country , thus creating upward pressure on domestic interest rates . |
| 30 | Gillespie had claimed that the gun went off accidentally during a struggle , and he did not intend to harm his wife . |