Example sentences of "claim [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 2 | It is claimed that catering colleges have failed to get to grips with the developments of technology , acknowledge its importance and provide students with a level of understanding based on the industry 's needs . |
| 3 | It is now being claimed that the ERP allows the objective monitoring of well specified mental activities . |
| 4 | The group had claimed that drinkers would have to consume a ‘ not insignificant amount ’ of their 2.2 light beer before reaching the .05 blood alcohol limit set for drivers in NSW . |
| 5 | In the same letter to Katkov Dostoevsky also claimed that the murder was itself the merest peg ; ‘ I am only taking the accomplished fact ’ ; and he went on to assert that the human type ‘ which corresponds to this crime ’ was the creature of his imagination . |
| 6 | In a poststructuralist development of the idea , it is claimed that the most literary texts can offer is the endless ‘ free play of signifiers ’ . |
| 7 | The sense of betrayal has been deepened by London 's refusal to acknowledge any moral responsibility to provide general refuge ; instead , it has claimed that domestic political considerations demand the exclusion of potentially millions of Chinese immigrants . |
| 8 | Jana , the official Libyan news agency , had earlier claimed that Libyan control would be a'logical and historical' move because of the considerable early Arab links with the city . |
| 9 | Mr Ward has claimed that the £5.2m was a legitimate payment for ‘ valuable services ’ to Guinness during the Distillers takeover . |
| 10 | She had early ambitions to be a marine biologist , and always claimed that lack of formal educational opportunity prevented her . |
| 11 | It might be claimed that studying routine policing in Northern Ireland avoids the real issue of policing in the province and that attention ought to be addressed to those sections of the RUC which are responsible for what Turk ( 1982 ) calls ‘ political policing ’ and Brodeur ( 1983 ) ‘ high policing ’ , such as the Special Branch , the mobile support units , which are in effect riot police , or the various surveillance units like E4A . |
| 12 | Trojanowicz , Director of the National Neighbourhood Foot Patrol Centre in Michigan , is so enthusiastic that he has claimed that community policing can help in the policing of international terrorism ( Trojamowicz 1988 ) . |
| 13 | In contrast , political scientists have usually claimed that television news is unbiased ( though sociologists have been more sceptical ) . |
| 14 | It could be claimed that Lawson was the custodian of success , however risky his strategy appeared to be . |
| 15 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |
| 16 | In defence of their economic record , government spokesmen have claimed that from the second quarter of 1983 the numbers in employment increased and that more jobs were being created in Britain than in the rest of the EEC states taken together . |
| 17 | It was claimed that the chairman never went fishing and did not own his boat . |
| 18 | Although most commentators have claimed that Berkeley 's principal opponent was Descartes , whom he cited as an example only in the second ( 1710 ) edition , he was more generally denying the widely-received assumption that we see according to the laws of geometry — this assumption being central to the perspectivist tradition . |
| 19 | Amateurs always claimed that ( W.G. apart ) only legitimate hotel and travelling expenses were met , though ‘ testimonials , were sometimes arranged to give the gentleman a decent send-off . |
| 20 | Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way . |
| 21 | Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way . |
| 22 | The same interests have dominated his 10 years at Westminster , and it is claimed that he has redistributed more than £60 million from the taxpayer to the poor by challenging the DHSS in test cases . |
| 23 | FOR YEARS , the SMG has claimed that the police do not deal effectively with racial attacks , that they are slow to respond , reluctant to arrest , and ineffective in presenting the case against alleged assailants in court . |
| 24 | Yesterday the Perth Daily News also claimed that the former executive who organised the alleged tapping approached the CIA in an attempt to discredit Lonrho , one of Mr Bond 's most vociferous critics . |
| 25 | It has been claimed that Mr Gooderham may have had financial problems . |
| 26 | The Soviet Union has reclassified three army divisions , all with heavy equipment , as naval forces , and has claimed that they are thereby excluded from the terms of the treaty : a trick the West calls cheating . |
| 27 | Mr Abdul Halim Arshat , the secretary-general of Malaysia 's leading Islamic political party , has claimed that ‘ support for Iraq is necessary as the real motive of the US is to kill off the Muslims in Baghdad and to destroy the city . ’ |
| 28 | Other Soviet organisations have claimed that the accident may yet cause up to 300,000 deaths . |
| 29 | It has been claimed that Margaret saw the tunnel as some sort of monument to her and her period of government . |
| 30 | When a review of the health service was set up following the 1987 general election , it was claimed that our kind of public review would be too slow . |