Example sentences of "claim they be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the couple , who claim they 're white witches cast a spell to try to stop the attacks . |
| 2 | The inmates at Bullingdon jail near Bicester may be serving their time , but they claim they 're being served up insufficient and unpalatable food . |
| 3 | But prison officers who work alongside them claim they 're over budget and as a consequence , they 're are producing inadequate meals . |
| 4 | They 're part of a European team working on a nuclear fusion project , but claim they 're paid only half as much as their continental colleagues . |
| 5 | Now they claim they 're regularly being subjected to violence by inmates — twenty officers have been seriously assaulted so far this year . |
| 6 | Britain and Hong Kong claim they are eager for international agencies to monitor the resettlement of the illegal migrants , just as is already being done for those boat people who have returned voluntarily . |
| 7 | Zoos , botanical gardens and some circuses claim they are serving conservation by breeding animals or plants in captivity . |
| 8 | There is perhaps an element of do-gooding about certain taxes and even today there are Treasury ministers who smugly claim they are doing the nation 's health a favour by putting up the levy on cigarettes , alcohol and petrol . |
| 9 | South Central residents claim they are rude , racist , parasitic . |
| 10 | They claim they are pre-Christian and good , not satanic and evil . |
| 11 | At least , Denise and Jean-Louis Lavergne claim they are the lovers in the world 's most romantic picture taken on a spring morning in 1950 . |
| 12 | The elder and his dwindling following claim that misfortunes are the judgment of the outraged ancestors ; his opponents — led by those who covet his position — claim they are due to intolerable acts of malicious witchcraft , providing incontrovertible proof that their author is no longer fit to retain his exalted office . |
| 13 | Proponents of the view that Keynesian stabilization policies are futile have been quick to point out the key role that wage and price rigidity play in justifying such policies , and the need for advocates of such policies to provide some theory of why prices should be rigid in the way they claim they are . |
| 14 | Anson agrees they are illegal whilst Cheshire and Fifoot specifically claim they are void — but not , illegal . |
| 15 | The Conservative party in opposition was against the opening of the University , but now they claim they are four square behind it . |
| 16 | They claim they are neither punk nor heavy metal , but can change tack from rock n' roll to thrash at the drop of a hat . |
| 17 | Health chiefs admit that the queue had built up to ‘ unacceptable levels ’ but claim they are now down to 10 weeks . |
| 18 | Light rail supporters claim they are fast , clean , efficient and can reduce congestion . |
| 19 | The men claim they were not offered new sales posts with Swithland Motors , of Mountsorrel , Leics , after it took over the Birmingham-based Colmore Group in March last year . |
| 20 | Staff claim they were shocked by her blatant flirting and handholding . |
| 21 | Furious staff claim they were even called in from holidays to be grilled by a specialist security firm at the MetroCentre in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear . |
| 22 | THE former staff of TV 's Grace Brothers claim they were snubbed by the BBC at a celebrity party . |
| 23 | Many men detained , both briefly by the OMON and in Azerbaydzhani prisons , claim they were beaten and otherwise ill-treated ; allegations refer to regular daily beatings with truncheons , often to the point of unconsciousness ; rape and insertion of bottles into the anus ; and deprivation of food and water . |
| 24 | Older members claim they were n't given the opportunity to buy . |
| 25 | None of us it is a matter of extreme regret that they were terrified in the way they claim they were , but that sympathy must not be allowed to cloud your judgement on the issue about whether the police were reasonable . |
| 26 | They claim they were acting in self defence . |
| 27 | They claim they were misled about the number of people who 'd be attending the show — the first to be held . |
| 28 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 29 | The organisers claim they were dissuaded from going ahead with the event because of the tone of a letter from the DTI which said it would not grant an import licence if one were needed . |