Example sentences of "claim [art] [noun sg] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the working party was announced , it was claimed the membership had been loaded towards the landowning fraternity . |
| 2 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , claimed the council had missed out on a major tourist attraction . |
| 3 | The BBC who organised the biggest conker contest in 1954 claimed the winner had a ‘ five thousander plus . ’ |
| 4 | She claimed the King had left a suicide note for his father , saying he wanted to die because he had cancer and could not face an agonising death . |
| 5 | Mr Johnson , of Coningsby Drive , Kidderminster , claimed the company had boasted of the success of using saleswomen and never had any intention of offering him a job because he was a man . |
| 6 | Although no improvement was expected in oil prices in the short term , Mr Darby claimed the company had a strong and diversified portfolio of international exploration opportunities . |
| 7 | They claimed the ban had been imposed because of pressure from Dublin . |
| 8 | Mr Thomas also claimed the taxpayer had lost at least £29 million as a result of the 1990 sale of the Post Office 's Girobank operations to the Alliance & Leicester building society , in preference to the Co-op Bank 's bid . |
| 9 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 10 | An apparent suicide note found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man . |
| 11 | Mr Baker also claimed the Government had done all it could to make cars safe . |
| 12 | Friends of the Earth , however , claimed the Government had ‘ bottled out ’ . |
| 13 | He claimed the firm had had previous difficulties in getting paid by the council , with one school not paying for five months . |
| 14 | He claimed the ball had hit his bat , the square-leg umpire agreed and he was recalled , much to the chagrin of the bowler , Ian Beven . |
| 15 | Anonymous telephone calls claimed the attack had been carried out by various groups , including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah , in revenge for Israel 's assassination of the Hezbollah secretary-general Sheikh Abbas Musawi in February [ see p. 38750 ] . |
| 16 | The man said his group held 64 documents relating to IRA suspects in the Irish Republic and claimed the group had members in every police sub-division , of which the RUC has 38 . |
| 17 | The man claimed the group had members in every police sub-division , of which the RUC has 38 . |
| 18 | They claimed the move had been simply to bring Scotland into line with England and Wales and that the initiative had come from the big bookmakers , who would be the main beneficiaries . |
| 19 | And today a spider expert claimed the creature had to be caught for the sake of other shoppers . |
| 20 | Councillor Malachi Curran , the chairman of the Down Economic Development Agency , claimed the area had not received a fair share in the past and there was an onus on the government to ensure Down was not neglected . |
| 21 | Anderson , who had pleaded not guilty and claimed the woman had handed him ‘ sex on a plate ’ , was convicted by a 10-2 majority of raping the woman on 4 April , last year . |
| 22 | The defence branded one witness ‘ the Godfather of Gwalchmai ’ and claimed a campaign had been launched against the Roberts family locally . |
| 23 | One witness claimed a shotgun had been brandished before police arrived at the scene . |
| 24 | Protestors claim the Foundation had agreed to temporarily suspend all work on the building while they discussed fears for their childrens ' safety . |
| 25 | Official spokespeople claim the band had not planned to perform on the night , although NME 's source said : ‘ They were definitely going to do the gig , but it was pulled at the first sign of the news breaking . ’ |
| 26 | Section 33 discretion was refused having regard to three factors : the prejudice to the defendant , the unsatisfactory nature of a trial seven years later and the potential claim the plaintiff had against his solicitors . |
| 27 | SOCIAL Security Secretary Peter Lilley was under fire last night for claiming the Government had protected the less well off through the recession . |
| 28 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 29 | But when the inquest was held in Brighton last summer , the families of the victims walked out , claiming the hearing had been a ‘ whitewash . ’ |
| 30 | — Yesterday The Northern Echo reported that Mr Fallon had issued a statement through his secretary claiming the investigation had been dropped . |