Example sentences of "[was/were] claim that [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , there is an element of political value judgment in such decisions : in 1921 a judge held that reasonable citizens would not think less of a trade unionist if it were claimed that he had worked during a strike : some juries might reach a different decision today . |
| 2 | We had to repossess what fate had handed us on a plate , and the only way to do this was to claim that we had willed it all along . |
| 3 | Later Marie Wassilieff too was to claim that she had persuaded Modigliani to take up painting again . |
| 4 | It was claimed that he had purchased the Surrey manor of Woodmansterne from its tenant while litigation about the manor was pending in the Common Bench before him and his colleagues . |
| 5 | It was claimed that he had confessed to spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency , but the US authorities had always denied that he had any official connections . |
| 6 | It was claimed that he had pulled too long and too hard in a trial of forceps delivery and this had caused the plaintiff 's head to become wedged or stuck , resulting in asphyxia and brain damage . |