Example sentences of "claim that the [noun] [noun] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem surprising nonetheless to claim that the infinitive event is represented as a mere potentiality in uses with the modal auxiliaries in past contexts such as : ( 9 ) When he was young , he could swim across the lake and back in 10 minutes . |
| 2 | However , it seems more justifiable to claim that the RSVP technique is not testing the normal comprehension of sentences . |
| 3 | This anxiety has been fuelled by , for example , changes to the basis of counting the numbers of unemployed people , changing the index for measuring poverty or using official figures to claim that the health service is enjoying unprecedented prosperity . |
| 4 | This is quite the worst case I have ever heard of.It 's an outrage and proves that the government is quite wrong to claim that the health service is improving |
| 5 | Supporters of the third principle may claim that the reason rape is prohibited is that its perpetration deprives the raped of their chances to live according to their conception of the good . |
| 6 | Iraqi engineers claim that the Third River is designed to reclaim 1.5 million square kilometres of salt-encrusted fields , which could increase Iraq 's crop production by 50 per cent . |
| 7 | On 28 July 1971 the Rhodesia Herald published a letter from me in response to a vitriolic attack by a Rhodesia Front Party MP : When Mr Irvine claims that the university campus is both a hotbed of evil living and orientated to the ‘ unpractical arts ’ subjects , did he visualise arts and social science students abandoning their studies in history , sociology and political science to take up carpentry and plumbing ? |
| 8 | THE US government is playing down claims that the Clinton administration is keen to raise the European Community 's import ban on hormone-aided beef as a stalling issue in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade talks . |
| 9 | Managing director of ICL Personal Systems David Mills also claims that the Spring collection is well placed to exploit the growing trend towards client-server technology — in fact , the company said it can now offer ‘ everything you need for client-server computing ’ . |
| 10 | Northedge claims that the transnationalist approach is simply an ‘ American Illusion ’ , the result of developments in the USA 's international situation . |