Example sentences of "[noun prp] claimed that [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign press reports in March claimed that over the past year up to 400,000 people from shanty towns in the outskirts of Khartoum had been forcibly relocated to areas outside the city [ for December 1991 killings of shanty-town dwellers see p. 38666 ] . |
| 2 | In his 1979 budget Sir Geoffrey Howe claimed that in the past public spending had been based on falsely optimistic expectations about economic resources : ‘ It is this falsely reassuring belief that somehow the resources will be found to permit an uninterrupted expansion of public expenditure that this government challenges . |
| 3 | Mr Gummer claimed that during the negotiations the powerful American farming lobby had been ‘ all over the hotel ’ . |
| 4 | Speaking from Sierra Leone , Moniba claimed that under the Constitution he should have taken over on the death of Doe in September , and he called on Sawyer 's interim government to step down . |
| 5 | Rafael Rodriguez claimed that during the course of the first visit Castro gave a verbal acceptance of the idea of an alliance between Fidelistas and Communists ( Thomas : 1977 , p. 224 ) . |
| 6 | Zuwaya claimed that in the past they had recognized no internal sovereign , and in this matter they seem to have been right . |
| 7 | IN her article on car recycling , Liz Moore claimed that in the Eighties , scapped cars went eventually to landfill sites . |
| 8 | In a broadcast on the US ABC television network on Feb. 24 and in a speech to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on Feb. 27 , Aristide claimed that as a " common criminal " , the amnesty did not apply to Cédras . |