Example sentences of "claimed be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Japan and Hong Kong called on July 17-19 for stricter control of anti-dumping measures , which they claimed were sometimes being applied in violation of normal price competition procedures .
2 Heber 's grants from the federal government for raising IQs totalled in the millions of dollars , much more than the usual federal funding level , and the results he claimed were comparably out of the ordinary .
3 The researchers were highly critical of the continued evacuation programme , based on these measurements , which they claimed was both medically unwarranted and psychologically traumatic .
4 Khieu Samphan refused to sign the communiqué , which he claimed was fundamentally different from the Thai document approved by the four groups in May .
5 The Israeli delegation claimed that they had been assured by Egypt that members of the PNC , which it claimed was directly related to and controlled by the PLO , would not be present in the negotiating room .
6 She began to talk rapturously , pouring out speculations about the future , all mixed in with details of her life — which she claimed was deeply unhappy , under a permanent cloud because her mother had died giving birth to her .
7 For the unhappy family the process began with Mr Dunn the debtor receiving a summons form ( or writ , as it once was ) , and a reply form on which he was invited to write down whether he admitted owing Mr Rich the creditor the sum he claimed was still outstanding .
8 At once , he moved his base from Jametz , which — at about fourteen miles from the front — he claimed was too distant , to Sivry-sur-Meuse , six miles from the Mort Homme .
9 Yet it did not require much imagination to see that it could only be one thing : the so-called " rice-water " fluid from a cholera patient , which Dr McNab claimed was so deadly .
10 Under the accord , which Bustos claimed was only a " first step " falling short of CUT demands , a new minimum wage of US$87 was to be paid from June 1 in addition to adjustments to family allowances , pensions and some subsidies , which would be subject to annual vision .
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