Example sentences of "[adj] claimed [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the animal was slow to mature ( some claimed that it would keep growing until it was six years old ) the new society was able to show that properly managed steers could reach market weights before they were two years old . |
| 2 | Although some claimed that his methods — shooting through the head at close range — were ‘ humane ’ , most dog-lovers had lobbied their MP and campaigned vigorously in the local press under headlines such as STOP THIS DOG SERIAL KILLER . |
| 3 | Some claimed that there was too much detail , and this was being worked on . |
| 4 | The accused claimed that he had been granted permission by a supervisor to take scrap tyres from a certain firm . |
| 5 | The accused claimed that he had produced the gun to try to hold Robert at bay and then shot him when he advanced on him with a hunting knife . |
| 6 | The government also stressed its record of liberalizing the economy and five years of continuous growth , while Labour claimed that it had mismanaged the public finances by allowing the national debt to double . |
| 7 | All claimed that they had attacked La Tablada because they believed a military coup was under way and that they were trying to forestall it ; they also said that their attempts to surrender had been ignored and that at least four of their comrades had been tortured and killed . |
| 8 | Psychics such as Jeanne Dixon , the late Doris Stokes and my local professional clairvoyant all claimed that their gifts fell from heaven . |
| 9 | A Polisario communique of Dec. 3 claimed that it had carried out a total of 23 assaults on the Moroccan defence wall between Nov. 2 and Nov. 23 , although it gave no details of casualties . |
| 10 | PT Ltd claimed that it was entitled to set off the tax that should have been deducted against the rent due on 25 March 1991 and failed to pay the rent . |
| 11 | The government first claimed that its forces ( Forças Armadas Populares de Libertaçao de Angola — FAPLA ) had captured the town on Feb. 2 , after killing more than 500 UNITA guerrillas , but this was denied by UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi , who said that the town was firmly under UNITA control and alleged that Soviet and Cuban forces had been involved in the fighting . |
| 12 | However , US intelligence sources cited in the Guardian of Feb. 8 claimed that there were still 30,000,000 barrels of refined petroleum in storage , " enough for four months of sustained combat " . |
| 13 | Of the forty women , twenty-six claimed that they worked harder than their husbands , seven said the men worked harder , and seven that it depended on personality or on the kind of job the husband had . |
| 14 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 15 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 16 | They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity . |
| 17 | Someone who had worked closely with Ian Paisley in the 1950s claimed that he had once joked that the only way they would get anywhere would be if they went to gaol for the Protestant cause . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , 12 members of the Cabinet did visit the shrine on Aug. 15 ( and at least three others had visited it earlier in the month ) , although most claimed that they had done so in a private capacity . |