Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] claims that " in BNC.
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| 1 | LABOUR 'S claims that a national minimum wage would benefit workers were denied by a Conservative industry minister . |
| 2 | It treats with scepticism the timber industry 's claims that developing countries receive valuable foreign earnings from their timber exports , and points out that European governments receive far more in taxes from the sale of tropical timber products than is given to developing countries in aid for forestry projects . |
| 3 | It made a mockery of Bryan Gould 's claims that up to 100 Labour MPs supported him . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Gordon Durie reacted angrily to Tottenham 's claims that he does n't want to play for them . |
| 5 | Casting aside Pennzoil 's claims that it had no intention of launching a bid , Chevron moved into top gear to protect itself against a takeover which could be worth $35billion and would revive memories of some of the biggest corporate battles of the 1970 's and 80's . |
| 6 | Despite Tom King 's claims that there is a fine distinction between the two , both the 1976 Act and the 1989 Act will only produce marginal change . |
| 7 | Wildenstein 's claims that this agreement was broken by the sale at Christie 's . |
| 8 | Triumphant Pakistan angrily refuted Stewart 's claims that they had a secret method of making the old ball swing . |
| 9 | But Berkeley 's claims that his Immaterialism avoided the scepticism endemic in his predecessors , and restored philosophy to the beliefs of sound common sense , were not accepted . |
| 10 | This is not only because it has a weak case — as we show elsewhere ( this issue , p 76 ) , there are certainly some doubts about the validity of the CEGB 's claims that Sizewell B will reduce the cost of electricity in England and Wales by allowing the board to burn less coal — but also because it is difficult to see what the inspector can say about economics when he comes to writing his final report . |
| 11 | Goody 's claims that Greek historians have distinguished myth from history is of a kind with the uncritical faith of these classicists . |
| 12 | MIPS ' known design wins , including SNI , Sumitomo Electric Inc , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , Acer Group Inc and parent SGI , are not the stuff of massive volumes despite MIPS ' claims that Sony Corp and NEC Corp are racking up the numbers in Japan . |
| 13 | The Russian Federation Security Council meeting on the same day expressed concern over arms deliveries from Romania to Moldova ( although on May 31 the Moldovan Foreign Ministry had denied Gen. Grachev 's claims that Romania was supplying Moldova with tanks , claiming that only pontoon bridges and trucks were donated ) . |
| 14 | Nobody trusted the geologists ' claims that this was simply a series of experiments to see whether the underground structure was suitable in principle : everybody believed that the waste dump would be excavated under their patch . |
| 15 | The new evidence contradicted Bush 's claims that he was " out of the loop " of those who approved the Iran-contra operation and that , when he did discover the arms deal , he was unaware of its quid pro quo element in regard to the hostages . |
| 16 | A taxation of the bills would not prejudice the debtor 's claims that he was given negligent advice . |
| 17 | In view of that stated aim , I was surprised to find no mention of Sherwood Idso 's claims that all of the fuss is a result of climatologists barking up the wrong tree , misled by computer models which are all making the same mistake . |
| 18 | In spite of Hutchinson 's claims that he had 20,000 members in the Mansfield district , and large numbers of followers in Lancashire and other industrial areas , and that he had printed hundreds of thousands of copies of the National Worker , there was no evidence that he had any members in his organization . |
| 19 | When O'Neill returned from a meeting with Harold Wilson in London , he reacted in a manner guaranteed to confirm the Free Presbyterians ' claims that O'Neill 's policies were designed to achieve in the political sphere what the ecumenical movement was trying to do in inter denominational co-operation . |
| 20 | The rise in unemployment frustrated the government 's spending plans , because of the rising costs of social security ; it also undermined the credibility of the government 's claims that its economic strategy was working and that economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 21 | This happened despite the government 's claims that it was injecting market discipline into the private sector by not ‘ bailing out lame ducks ’ . |
| 22 | In south-eastern Chad , Mosanat ( Mouvement pour la salvation nationale tchadienne ) claimed military victories in early March 1989 ( see p. 36519 ) and denied the government 's claims that fighting in that region had involved a Libyan-backed Islamic Legion ( a force of some 2,000 whom the Sudanese authorities said had crossed from Libya into Sudan in early August 1988 , and on whom the Habre government claimed to have inflicted defeats in December 1988 some 100 km west of the Sudanese border ) . |
| 23 | On Feb. 10 Ahmed al-Malat , assistant general guide of the Moslem Brotherhood , rejected the government 's claims that it was linked to a conspiracy . |
| 24 | Others involved a reduction in the number of annual tests from eight to six , and an invitation to foreign researchers to visit Mururoa to test France 's claims that there had been no severe environmental damage . |
| 25 | He denied objectors ' claims that the line anticipated new power stations would be built on Teesside and would pressurise the area into accepting more gas-fired stations . |
| 26 | Mr Bates ' claims that the Labour case used on TV was bogus angered his Langbaurgh Labour opponent Ashok Kumar who said : ‘ There are genuine cases of suffering up and down the country . |
| 27 | Smart 's claims that he had the support in this enterprise of ‘ many of the Bishops and other dignified Clergymen ’ seems to have been completely unrealistic . |
| 28 | A Norwegian scientist has challenged US space agency 's claims that the ozone layer is rapidly thinning . |
| 29 | Despite Schlesinger 's claims that ‘ there was n't anything in the movie that I had n't seen in some way somewhere ’ and ‘ one was always confronted by something worse on the streets than one was putting into the film ’ , they were attention-getting elements , unabsorbed into the texture of the film . |
| 30 | The bank also denies last year 's claims that it had signed a major deal with IBM to supply RS6000s ( UX No 323 ) , saying that it was only ‘ evaluating ’ the IBM equipment . |