Example sentences of "claimed [that] [pers pn] had be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 19 the United Kingdom and US embassies in Ankara investigated allegations by a group of Christian evangelists who claimed that they had been blindfolded and tortured at a police station in Ankara . |
| 2 | The Israeli delegation claimed that they had been assured by Egypt that members of the PNC , which it claimed was directly related to and controlled by the PLO , would not be present in the negotiating room . |
| 3 | The appellant claimed that they had been sent to the wrong office . |
| 4 | Some of the 120 rebels claimed that they had been granted an amnesty , but an official spokesman stated that all had surrendered unconditionally and could face charges of treason , a capital offence . |
| 5 | The police claimed that they had been forced to act to disperse the crowds when troublemakers attacked police stations , but protesters disputed this account and described the police action as a massacre . |
| 6 | During the hearings , officials from the CIA apparently admitted having concealed evidence from Judge Shoob , but claimed that they had been pressurized into doing so by the Justice Department . |
| 7 | The Poitevins claimed that they had been attacked while peace talks were in progress and that though they had naturally defended themselves they had certainly not intended to kill the Earl . |
| 8 | Aoun , and most Western diplomats , blamed the LF militia for the attack , but Geaga claimed that it had been organized by Aoun 's own intelligence officers in an attempt to gain a measure of international sympathy . |
| 9 | The plaintiffs were manufacturers of a boiler disincrustant and claimed that it had been produced by a secret process . |
| 10 | She claimed that she had been discriminated against on the grounds of sex contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 . |
| 11 | The news was issued as a government Election Commission press release on Dec. 15 which claimed that she had been removed from the NLD because she was " indirectly receiving support from an organization from a foreign country " . |
| 12 | On July 11 a police corporal was shot dead during an unsuccessful attempt by 100 provincial police to storm the barricade ; some reports claimed that he had been killed in cross-fire . |
| 13 | Local ANC members claimed that he had been killed by members of the Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) who were training Inkatha youths locally . |
| 14 | Wamwere 's lawyers claimed that he had been kidnapped from Uganda . |
| 15 | In 1319 , for instance , the wealthy Genoese merchant Antonio di Pessagno , formerly seneschal of Aquitaine , claimed that he had been granted 3000 l.st . |
| 16 | The accused claimed that he had been granted permission by a supervisor to take scrap tyres from a certain firm . |
| 17 | PRI political secretary Giorgio La Malfa claimed that he had been misled over the Cabinet posts by Andreotti " who I thought was a man of quality " . |
| 18 | Lee claimed that he had been libelled in an article published in December 1987 dealing with the arrest earlier that year of a group of Catholic lay workers supposedly involved in a " Marxist conspiracy " [ see p. 37086 ] . |
| 19 | Filshin claimed that he had been set up , and announced that he was resigning in protest at an " anti-democratic campaign " being waged by the KGB and " central Soviet structures " to discredit the Russian Federation government . |
| 20 | Fares Misrati claimed that he had been tortured by Egyptian security forces . |
| 21 | His predecessor , Expedito Ribeiro de Souza , had been shot dead on Feb. 2 ; police arrested a suspect who claimed that he had been hired by a local landowner to carry out the killing . |
| 22 | Mellor claimed that he had been driven out of office by the tabloid press , which had pursued him since the discovery in July of his extramarital affair with an actress , Antonia de Sancha . |
| 23 | Although Gundovald received open support from men who had fallen out with Guntram , or who had been left without a patron at Chilperic 's death , Theodore of Marseilles claimed that he had been ordered to receive Gundovald by Childebert 's magnates . |
| 24 | On Nov. 22 a spokesman for the exiled Iraqi New Ummah Party claimed that he had been executed along with seven other officers for having attempted to depose Saddam Hussein . |
| 25 | One " secret witness " , subsequently identified as a German of Iraqi origin , recanted his testimony during the trial and claimed that he had been forced to make a false testimony under duress . |