Example sentences of "claim that he was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Campbell was yesterday awarded £4,000 damages by the Edinburgh Court of Session , following a three-day hearing into a claim that he was beaten and stamped upon in his cell by prison officers . |
| 2 | No FA inquiry into his claim that he was struck on the head by a coin thrown from stand occupied by Millwall fans . |
| 3 | Civilian and police press officers attached to RUC Headquarters , Belfast retailed various smear stories against Irwin , including a claim that he was bitter and vindictive against the police because they had failed to arrest a soldier who , it was alleged , three years earlier had raped his wife . |
| 4 | But while reasserting the old , he also broke new ground in the claim that he was rightful lord over all men in the area who had hitherto had no lord . |
| 5 | The claim is currently being considered by the Adjudication Officer who is awaiting a reply from the employer regarding Mr. Docherty 's response to their claim that he was dismissed for misconduct . |
| 6 | Is he aware that , by persisting in the claim that he was not bound by the order of the court , he is compounding his offence ? |
| 7 | De Klerk did not significantly address the ANC 's demands , but described as defamatory and false the claim that he was conducting a campaign of political murder , and defended the security forces , which , he declared , operated with impartiality . |
| 8 | Yeltsin said that he had lured the coup leaders out of the Kremlin , where they were protected , by challenging them to go to Foros , the Black Sea resort where Gorbachev was being held , to get a statement from Gorbachev to confirm their claim that he was unable to carry out his duties . |
| 9 | Gregory 's claim that he was hailed as consul and Augustus at Tours must be a misunderstanding , although an honorary consulship is not out of the question . |
| 10 | He backs up Mill 's claim that he was acting in self defence . |
| 11 | This was totally in contradiction to Mr Venables ' claim that he was promised security of tenure . |
| 12 | The RUC refused to comment on their claim that he was an informer . |
| 13 | THE Health Secretary Mr Kenneth Clarke yesterday rejected claims that he was trying to break the ambulancemen 's strike when he told MPs he had decided the army would be mobilised to help to answer emergency calls in London . |
| 14 | Colleagues backed his claims that he was a scapegoat in a secret political row between BA and Government safety chiefs . |
| 15 | A taxation of the bills would not prejudice the debtor 's claims that he was given negligent advice . |
| 16 | The form of personal rule which Maclean established inevitably gave rise to claims that he was , if not actually involved in slave-trading and slave-holding , insufficiently energetic in combating them . |
| 17 | Emerging as the main beneficiary of the division within Solidarity , Tyminski had at first been considered a rank outsider and was thus largely ignored by the media and other candidates , but began to attract support with claims that he was untarnished by past politics and that as a self-made millionaire he had the economic acumen to transform the Polish economy . |
| 18 | He issued a series of varied and confusing demands , ranging from reaffirmations of his patriotism to claims that he was fighting for an " authentic democracy " . |
| 19 | He was given permission to undergo tests in a Moscow hospital , but official statements from the hospital on Feb. rejected claims that he was suffering from cancer and other dangerous infirmities , and denied that any operation was planned . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Goes in high towards Collimore who turns to the referee and claims that he was pushed as the corner came over . |
| 22 | At its worse — as in Heather Dawkin 's embarrassingly biographic study of Degas ' models and their claims that he was an anti-semitic , mean-spirited man with public lice — it reinforces Modernist paradigms of auratic authorship . |
| 23 | Lou Macari took charge of training at Stoke City this morning then set about dismissing claims that he was on the verge of taking over at Celtic . |
| 24 | A LANDLORD has called in the ombudsman to investigate claims that he was shortchanged by Darlington council . |