Example sentences of "claims [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project outline claims that no-one lives in the inner zones , although this is disputed by local non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) , which insist that tribal people currently use all of the forest . |
| 2 | Tony Smith claims that we apply a double standard to orthodox and alternative medicine , using published studies in the medical literature to denounce the former while relying largely on anecdotal evidence to promote the latter . |
| 3 | Darlington 's Tory MP Michael Fallon said last night : ‘ Claims that we have cut training budgets are simply untrue . |
| 4 | ‘ Richard Needham claims that they belong in hell , and in that he is correct , ’ he said . |
| 5 | These figures , emanating from the Council of Mortgage Lenders , are challenged by Janet Ford who claims that they underestimate the number of people in arrears because they rely upon cross-sectional data , drawn from the experience of only the largest mortgage lenders . |
| 6 | Animals arrive with forged documentation which claims that they have been bred in captivity , and which therefore entitles them to be taken on to other western destinations . |
| 7 | Indeed , he claims that they work too hard , substituting their career for a child and are more likely to become alcoholics or take drugs . |
| 8 | Indeed , he claims that they work too hard , substituting their career for a child and are more likely to become alcoholics or take drugs . |
| 9 | The VAX 7000 600 systems come with a 91MHz CPU and DEC claims that they outstrip all but the most expensive IBM Corp mainframes . |
| 10 | My father claims that he cut the animal open and found my tiny genitals in its stomach , but I never did get him to tell me what he did with them . |
| 11 | There 's a chap er at our called Bill who claims that he got one one year before that but he ca n't prove it to us , er apparently he read in the Readers Digest of Neighbourhood Watch schemes in America and set one up himself in his own little area . |
| 12 | A cocky 12-year-old in an expensive Goretex jacket , Kevin claims that he went to the boy 's home and was told by his father that he had not killed anyone . |
| 13 | More recently , of course , Hytner has become the internationally acclaimed director of Miss Saigon , but he claims that he does n't want just to be a director of musicals , or only of anything else for that matter . |
| 14 | The brother of Yucel Ozen , who died in custody on 24 November 1991 after interrogation at Beyoglu Police Station , claims that he had been telephoned frequently by police who made veiled threats and advised him no to press his complaint concerning his brother 's death . |
| 15 | He claims that he had no intention of acting in defiance of the court order . |
| 16 | The left-wing news magazine Análisis , in a special report a week after the reburial , claimed that the examination of Allende 's body after it was exhumed on Aug. 14 had substantiated eyewitness claims that he had committed suicide , and had not been shot by soldiers . |
| 17 | The Guardian of May 4 disclosed that Kurt Klebeck , the wartime deputy commander of a labour camp in the Channel Island of Alderney , was alive and living in Hamburg , contrary to earlier British intelligence claims that he had not survived the war . |
| 18 | The government on Nov. 9 released details of a post-mortem attributing the death in custody of former prominent politician Orton Chirwa [ see p. 39133 ] , to " extensive cancer of the prostate glands and chronic infection of the kidneys " , and repudiating opposition claims that he had been strangled . |
| 19 | ( b ) Implied permission A person who claims that he had implied permission to enter premises must prove that there was such permission . |
| 20 | The friend said , ‘ That 's the sort of woman you 'll probably marry , ’ and Gould claims that he replied , ‘ No way , José . |
| 21 | The Prime Minister claims that he wants to be at the heart of Europe , but his real objective is a bypass operation . |
| 22 | Gregory claims that he has already licensed this technology to a well-known player interested in multimedia applications . |
| 23 | He claims that he has always been an ‘ outsider ’ , ‘ unique ’ is perhaps a better description . |
| 24 | Still twenty-four , and presenting himself to Louise Colet as a fellow of infinite whim , he claims that he has thought long and very seriously about the idea of becoming a bandit in Smyrna . |
| 25 | In an imagined interview at the Labour Exchange , the protagonist claims that he has only been ‘ spasmodically in labour ’ , then immediately corrects himself by rephrasing the slip as ‘ employed intermittently ’ ( 19/21 ) . |
| 26 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 27 | He insists that no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 28 | He insists no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 29 | okay , supposedly she claims that he hit her and winded her and she screamed after she was winded , yeah , which is an impossibility anyway but that 's okay |
| 30 | Someone who claims that he knows that p is claiming that if p were not true , he would not believe it and if p were true he would believe it . |