Example sentences of "it claim [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a report on Feb. 14 the New York-based human rights group Helsinki Watch called on Tudjman to investigate and bring to an end serious human rights violations in Croatia , where it claimed that the new government had been executing and torturing detainees and unarmed citizens and destroying property . |
| 2 | In 1986 , TV Guide published a cover story entitled ‘ Why American TV is So Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda ’ , in which it claimed that the Libyan hit team story was really a figment of a KGB campaign to spread alarm and ‘ to destabilise public opinion in the west ’ . |
| 3 | It claims that the normal way to establish that a person has authority over another person involves showing that the alleged subject is likely better to comply with reasons which apply to him ( other than the alleged authoritative directives ) if he accepts the directives of the alleged authority as authoritatively binding and tries to follow them , rather than by trying to follow the reasons which apply to him directly . |
| 4 | It claims that the small British plastics recycling sector is receiving German waste either free of charge or with incentive payments of up to £220 per tonne , against which the plastic industry 's own organization set up to collect waste , Recoup , is unable to compete . |
| 5 | It claims that the stringent tests applied to chemical additives would lead to unacceptable delays in the introduction of genetically-altered foods . |