Example sentences of "[noun pl] claimed [prep] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the provision was concentrated mainly in Phase 1 schools , and in the later stages of PNP even these schools claimed to be encountering increased difficulty in sustaining their earlier staffing commitments in this area . |
| 2 | In the design and layout of the housing , the new villages like Blidworth , Harworth and Ollerton bore the imprint of the ideas about planned communities ( such as garden villages ) extant at the time , and the companies claimed to be establishing model communities ( Griffin , 1971 , pp. 168–70 ; Waller , 1983 , pp. 254ff . ) . |
| 3 | The Palestinians claimed to be mining the road when we arrived ; Palestinian military preparedness was as thorough as usual . |
| 4 | Typically enough , the liberals claimed to be re-establishing the early medieval fuero juzgo — a claim which caused endless legal confusion — when in fact they were crowning the work of the eighteenth-century civil servants with the economic individualism of the French Revolution . |
| 5 | The legality of these road-blocks was not tested in court ; the police claimed to be relying both on the Road Traffic Act and on the breach of the peace power as it had been developed during the miners ' strike ( see below ) . |
| 6 | The king believed that although Lancaster and his followers claimed to be acting in the king 's name they would in fact create disorder and in any case ‘ it was not their duty to act as judge and do justice ’ . |