Example sentences of "[noun pl] claimed [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inspectors claimed that they had discovered " essential elements " for manufacturing enriched uranium . |
| 2 | Monetarists claimed that there was a variable time-lag ( of between eighteen months and two years ) between an increase in money supply and the consequent price inflation and that the huge expansion in money supply ( 28 per cent in 1972 , 27 per cent in 1973 ) caused the soaring inflation of 1974 — 5 . |
| 3 | Oddly enough , at the end of the 205 hours the subjects claimed that they could go on longer , that after the fifth day things had got easier , and indeed offered to stay awake for another day if paid at the ninth day 's rate . |
| 4 | The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers . |
| 5 | The contras claimed that their action was intended to focus attention on the government 's failure to provide funds for the resettlement of former contras and their dependents . |
| 6 | His decision was appealed and the parents claimed that he had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 7 | On the one hand , the Bhatta-Mimamsaka school argued that time is perceptible , whereas their Nyaya-Vaiseka opponents claimed that it is only an inferred concept because it lacks sensible qualities , such as colour , form , etc . |
| 8 | He described this order ( cancelled when the coup collapsed ) variously as reorganization or saving the troops from the Red Army , but his opponents claimed that it was a step taken in collaboration with the coup leaders , and that his newly appointed Foreign Minister Murman Omanidze had held talks in Moscow with Yanayev beforehand . |
| 9 | Brent London Borough Council the applicant local authorities claimed that they should be entitled to make representations to the minister as to the way in which he should exercise his powers concerning local authority grants . |
| 10 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 11 | Earlier , in November 1990 , NLD representative Maung Ko had died in military custody ; the authorities claimed that he had committed suicide , but his relatives insisted that he had been tortured to death . |
| 12 | Clinton aides claimed that their own polling showed their man winning comfortably , a steady seven points ahead of Bush . |
| 13 | Some genial foreign observers claimed that it illustrated that gloomy predictions about Britain 's demise , like that of Mark Twain , were much exaggerated . |
| 14 | The rebels claimed that they had acted to rid the country of the inefficiency , incompetence and corruption of which , they said , the Aquino government was guilty . |
| 15 | Some of the 120 rebels claimed that they had been granted an amnesty , but an official spokesman stated that all had surrendered unconditionally and could face charges of treason , a capital offence . |
| 16 | According to Leonard , ‘ Although Raybestos officials claimed that they were strictly observing all agreed upon dumping procedures , on-site inspection provided clear evidence to the contrary . |
| 17 | Matta had been accused of overseeing a ring which had distributed cocaine worth $72,000,000 in Los Angeles , and Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) officials claimed that he controlled a drug-trafficking empire worth up to $2,000 million . |
| 18 | But this will scarcely work , for it was precisely in this year , and perhaps as a result of the failure of Archbishop Ralph 's letter to produce any effect at the papal court , that the Canterbury monks claimed that they had ‘ discovered ’ the long lost documents with all the essential primatial clauses in them . |
| 19 | In 1989 government information and press officers claimed that they were under considerable pressure from ministers to give a much more party political slant to press releases and general information for public consumption . |
| 20 | The official death toll from the assault was put at 83 , including nearly 70 civilians , but nationalists claimed that it was as high as 600 . |
| 21 | Some other passengers claimed that it had actually ‘ only ’ taken 36 hours , but I do n't believe them . |
| 22 | Although some skins claimed that they were so hard that they did not need to use weapons , and there was no standard personal armament like the cut-throat razors of the teds or the bicycle chains of the grebos , a variety of weapons were used at football matches and other fights . |
| 23 | UK Prime Minister John Major , whose critics claimed that he had known of fraud within BCCI when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1990 , announced on July 22 that Lord Justice Bingham would head an inquiry into the BCCI affair . |
| 24 | Critics claimed that he had consistently misjudged events in eastern Europe . |
| 25 | Over a quarter of respondents claimed that their organisation was either implementing and operating an Open Systems strategy . |
| 26 | Some owners of OTC-traded warrants claimed that they had never received anything written about exercising them at all . |
| 27 | Gnostic teachers claimed that their dualism explained the origin of evil far better than the orthodox church 's view that the created world comes from a perfectly good and all-powerful God . |
| 28 | One effect of the early deadline was that some teachers claimed that their reports had to be rushed and that there was little opportunity for a considered appraisal : |
| 29 | Mohawk leaders claimed that their action had focused world attention on land compensation claims of Canadian Indians and on the poor living conditions on reservations . |
| 30 | In the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election , in which there were on average almost seven candidates for each of the 450 seats , Rukh won the majority of the Kiev seats , but its leaders claimed that it had performed badly in most rural areas because of obstruction and electoral malpractice by officials . |