Example sentences of "he claim that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He claimed that such irregularities invalidated the order and that it should accordingly be set aside . |
| 4 | And yesterday he claimed that former England captain Gary — never even booked in his career — was SOPPY . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ! ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And he claimed that Nuclear Electric can never test for every possible accident or allow for human error . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He claimed that residential homes cost about £170 a week per person . |
| 12 | He claimed that last year nearly 1 ½million working days were lost through unofficial strikes , and that 75 per cent of strikes were unofficial . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He claims that industrial society is characterized by boring and monotonous work , lack of freedom for the individual to control his or her own life and a compulsion to acquire material possessions , directed by the mistaken belief that they bring happiness and fulfilment . |
| 17 | But now he claims that new material has come to light , from British and former Soviet KGB archives , which he believes casts doubt on Lord Aldington 's account of events . |
| 18 | He claims that serious work on inner-city policy began in 1979 : but it was , undoubtedly , the riots of 1981 , coinciding with the biggest drop in employment and job vacancies since the war , which gave impetus to the new approach . |
| 19 | He claims that widespread poverty amongst elderly people has been relatively ignored by academics and politicians , although it has resulted in the ‘ social creation of dependent status ’ . |
| 20 | He claims that limiting greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere by such methods would be cheaper than using nuclear power or energy-efficiency as a means of combating global warming . |