Example sentences of "claimed that [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet with contradictory logic he claimed that at this level a contributory pension would stimulate retirement , since older people would withdraw from full-time work and would ‘ eke out ’ their pensions by |
| 2 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
| 3 | These figures were produced in support of the employers ' position in the course of a bitter wage dispute ; the weavers claimed that on some types of cloth they could hardly make 4d ( 2p ) a day . |
| 4 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 5 | However , he claimed that in other respects clerks had retained distinct market advantages over manual workers . |
| 6 | Some teachers described the inspection as a very artificial set-up and claimed that in general people were not giving ‘ normal ’ lessons . |
| 7 | Both countries claimed that in these areas of Northeast Asia their political and economic rights and interests were paramount to national security . |
| 8 | Mr Langdale claimed that in 1990 south London drug-dealers supplied cannabis to Northern Ireland , frequently sending it via Red Star parcels . |
| 9 | The Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that in 1990 censorship of the press had been more severe than in any year since 1980 ; seven publications had their offices raided and 11 journalists and writers were arrested [ see also below ] . |
| 10 | The Italians claimed that by this treaty Menelik had granted them a protectorate over Abyssinia . |
| 11 | But it remained true , as a very experienced commentator pointed out , that " any man filled with an excessive desire of fortune or riches should abandon the calling of negotiator " , while the most successful English diplomat of the eighteenth century claimed that after fourteen years in several highly important posts he found himself £20,000 worse off . |
| 12 | Imagine a book which claimed that among heterosexual patients in psychiatric hospitals each had low personal self-esteem . |