Example sentences of "[conj] claim that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leitmotif of Coetzee 's book , as suggested by his title , is that the organizations he has studied faced an ongoing dilemma : whether to function as adjuncts of the Conservative party or to claim that their aims were ‘ national ’ and therefore ‘ above party ’ . |
| 2 | It is also illegal for manufacturers to give their product a misleading name , or to claim that it is made of a particular ingredient which in fact makes up a very small proportion of the product . |
| 3 | Various authors have suggested or claimed that working-class women are satisfied with housework while middle-class women are not . |
| 4 | So to say , ‘ Jesus is God ’ , does not imply or claim that we have made direct observation of a hidden ‘ divine nature ’ in him , or explored his relationship with the Father from the inside . |
| 5 | The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances . |
| 6 | When Western governments fail in matters of policy ( to bring down inflation , or to reduce unemployment ) they can blame technical factors beyond their control , or claim that no one really understands how to manage an economy . |
| 7 | Advertisers are not allowed to name other products , or claim that theirs is ‘ the best ’ , but these vague comparisons imply that brand X is better than all the opposition . |
| 8 | This was whether they should present themselves to the voters as a continuation of the Thatcher governments ; or claim that the election of John Major represented such a fundamental break with what had gone before that there was no need for voters to respond to the classical call of opposition on such occasions : ‘ Time for a change . ’ |
| 9 | Simmel is , however , highly sceptical or claim that liberalism has achieved equality in education and other such institutions ( 1978 : 439 ) . |
| 10 | Few nowadays hold to the ‘ medical ’ or ‘ treatment ’ models of punishment , or claim that science can provide a cure for all criminality . |
| 11 | Is the Home Office alleging or claiming that an emergency has arisen since the Conservative party conference , that the Bill must be completed in one day and that it is inconceivable that it could be improved in Committee ? |
| 12 | Despite the exceptions , it seems better in many ways to attempt to produce some stress rules ( even if they are rather crude and inaccurate ) than to claim that there is no rule or regularity in English word stress . |
| 13 | The statement which received the strongest approval was one that claimed that the monarchy benefited tourism . |
| 14 | There is a school of thought that claims that faith is an act of will made in defiance of the irrationality of believing that God exists . |
| 15 | There is a school of thought that claims that the ghetto was cleared for commercial rather than health reasons . |
| 16 | Apparently as you know I mean biblical criticism is a very and well people have devoted their whole lives to it , but apparently there is a , a school o of , quite a large school I think o of biblical critical that claims that there are actually two Moses and not one . |
| 17 | The public will also have been irritated by attempts to link bloodsports with conservation , to say that the countryside takes its present form to suit foxhunting and to claim that the fabric of society in the countryside will fall apart without hunting . |
| 18 | ‘ Critics have found me narrow , implies that his reputation is already controversial , a truth of which he was justly proud , and it is a provocation aptly calculated to make one read on ; and to claim that the only way to escape misrepresentation is to say nothing implies that something momentous is about to be said , that it is his habit and custom to do so , and that he is widely hated because he does . |
| 19 | Abolitionists successfully used the convention drastically to reduce the freedom of parliamentary action and to claim that it was more representative of national opinion than the legislature . |
| 20 | Cardinal Ottaviani seized the first possible opportunity to reply to Frings 's attack , to reassert the authority of the Theological Commission as he understood it , and to claim that an attack on the Holy Office was an attack on the pope himself as its prefect . |
| 21 | Such patients often differ only in the time taken to reach hospital , and to claim that they differ in any more fundamental way is pure sophistry . |
| 22 | This ancient puzzle has prompted some philosophers to draw a distinction between " being " and actual existence , and to claim that what is being talked about in such cases has being , even though it does not exist in reality . |
| 23 | Le Monde , citing agency reports , said that Biya 's speech had been an attempt to appease the opposition , which continued to allege massive electoral fraud and to claim that the Social Democratic Front ( SDF ) leader , John Fru Ndi , was the real winner . |
| 24 | The authorities denied that his arrest in 1987 was solely because he had met pro-North Korean people in Japan and claimed that he had acted on North Korean orders to collect documents on South Korean opposition groups , and to infiltrate dissent groups in order to create social unrest . |
| 25 | Subsequently she and ministers boasted about their increased spending and claimed that the NHS is ‘ safe with us ’ . |
| 26 | On Monday , the White House declared the violence to be ‘ part of a pattern of harassment ’ and claimed that this ‘ co-ordinated campaign ’ was linked to the state of war declaration . |
| 27 | NMFS caved in to pressure from the tuna industry , and claimed that it was possible to place observers aboard only 50 per cent of tuna seiners for the season beginning 1 January 1989 . |
| 28 | A man who grew 1,659 cannabis plants said he was a ‘ heavy smoker ’ and claimed that they were all for his own use . |
| 29 | As in 1933 , he accused the Jews abroad of stirring up agitation and boycotts against Germany , and claimed that this had made an impact on Jews inside Germany itself , whose public provocative behaviour had stirred up countless complaints and calls for action by the government . |
| 30 | The rural district council relied on the assumption of responsibility by the corporation in 1945 , while the corporation denied responsibility for the former rural district families and claimed that the 1956 Housing Act had made the rural district council responsible for all the families in the camp . |