Example sentences of "claim that [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Christmas revolution , it was claimed that Arab guerrillas in training camps formed the core of the last defenders of Ceauşescu 's regime . |
| 2 | However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances . |
| 3 | It was also claimed that some people in the media held shares in the mining companies and thus coverage of the exploration could be uncritical . |
| 4 | It may be claimed that open debate in Parliament is being replaced by confidential discussions at which the public is represented by anonymous officials . |
| 5 | Two forces were at work : the curriculum requirement of central government changed sufficiently often for critics to claim that important changes in original policy were repeatedly taking place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Rival ministers must even claim that heavy spending in one area is holding back growth in others . |
| 8 | Nichols and Armstrong claimed that many workers in that factory experienced a high level of alienation from their work . |
| 9 | ‘ Leland claimed that 250 parts in his cars were made to tolerances of one-thousandth of an inch ’ |
| 10 | Leland claimed that 250 parts in his cars were made to tolerances of one-thousandth of an inch . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A stronger form of sceptical argument would , however , threaten both notions at once and claim that any defect in the notion of knowledge is equally present in that of justified belief . |
| 15 | Employers claim that hard-pressed firms in eastern Germany can not afford the pay rises . |
| 16 | Soviet spokesmen claim that American ambitions in the 1980s are not confined to cultivating relations of ‘ alignment ’ on a bilateral basis . |
| 17 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
| 18 | Environmentalists welcomed the move , claiming that some fishermen in Cornwall and the South-West were disguising the true extent of the problem . |
| 19 | The Third Revolution , a study by Paul Harrison funded by several international bodies including the UN Population Fund ( UNFPA ) and the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , claims that steep rises in world population could lead to catastrophic damage to the world environment and a severe loss of species and natural habitats . |
| 20 | Bourke also claims that another prisoner in the same wing picked up part of their nightly conversations on his radio . |