Example sentences of "claim that [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is claimed that during the hour-long phone call Prince Charles and Camilla exchange affectionate remarks as they try to find a ‘ safe ’ house to meet . |
| 2 | Two magazines have claimed that during the 1980s safety tests at three nuclear plants in West Germany had been manipulated . |
| 3 | But it was also claimed that in the late 1970s certain telephones were tapped irrespective of any industrial dispute . |
| 4 | It was claimed that in the Krajna ( Serb populated areas ) over 90 per cent had voted to remain in Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | Miti also claimed that in the past five years Japan 's imports from its 10 largest trading partners had increased by 96 per cent , while exports had risen by only 45 per cent . |
| 6 | Joseph II in the 1780s attached great importance to its work ( not surprisingly for a ruler of his suspicious and autocratic temperament ) and it was claimed that in the single year 1780 – 81 alone no fewer than fifteen foreign diplomatic cyphers were broken in Vienna . |
| 7 | The second principle used in tone-unit boundary identification is a rhythmical one : it is claimed that within the tone-unit , speech has a regular rhythm , but that rhythm is broken or interrupted at the tone-unit boundary . |
| 8 | In defence of their economic record , government spokesmen have claimed that from the second quarter of 1983 the numbers in employment increased and that more jobs were being created in Britain than in the rest of the EEC states taken together . |
| 9 | Whenever there 's been officers get together , then W R A D itself paid for my travelling expenses and I have never claimed that from the authority , as I did n't believe that was proper . |
| 10 | The Crown has claimed that by the time he was arrested in the summer of 1991 his alleged computer forays had breached security surrounding a number of systems including one at EC headquarters , another at a world famous centre for cancer research and treatment and others at various universities . |
| 11 | ‘ There are those who would claim that under the fair employment legislation , preference is being given to Catholic applicants , ’ said the FEC chairman . |
| 12 | ‘ Meaning ’ theists do not claim that on the basis of some special gift from God , ‘ faith ’ or ‘ grace ’ or ‘ revelation ’ , they are able to be assured that God exists whilst being quite unable to communicate the grounds of their assurance to others who lack this divine gift . |
| 13 | The plaintiff might claim that during the period between the accident and the trial he would have been promoted and received earnings higher than his pre-accident earnings . |
| 14 | Some people , however , claimed that at the end of its run the mysterious tram disappeared on to a private spur line leading into the grounds of the presidential palace . |
| 15 | Social commentators of the 1950s and early 1960s claimed that with the burgeoning of the ‘ affluent society ’ the major class inequalities of industrial society were a thing of the past . |
| 16 | The men claimed that for the last six weeks women and children had been ‘ assaulted and humiliated ’ during raids on houses in loyalist areas . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | He claimed that under the National Curriculum there would be sufficient flexibility , for example , for schools to merge the teaching of traditional subjects , or to abolish classes based primarily on age . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The company claimed that under the then rules this was only taxable ( the interest and dividends ) when brought back to the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Mr Gummer claimed that during the negotiations the powerful American farming lobby had been ‘ all over the hotel ’ . |
| 23 | They claimed that despite the hundreds of years of Polish independence , ‘ the East ’ owed what little civilisation it could muster to the efforts of the Germans . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Zuwaya claimed that in the past they had recognized no internal sovereign , and in this matter they seem to have been right . |
| 26 | IN her article on car recycling , Liz Moore claimed that in the Eighties , scapped cars went eventually to landfill sites . |
| 27 | An Amnesty International report of Oct. 11 claimed that in the previous 18 months members of the armed forces , often working in collusion with drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups , had killed 2,500 people and were responsible for 250 others who had " disappeared " following detention . |
| 28 | It also noted that the Brady plan had been applied on a slow-moving voluntary basis which depended on the goodwill of creditor governments and banks , and claimed that in the absence of such goodwill debtor governments had had no alternative but to declare moratoriums as a means of attracting attention to their situation . |
| 29 | Another book claimed that by the end of the First World War much of the old prejudice against women having an equal place with men in society had gone . |
| 30 | But in a letter to the Times , a group of scientists , including many from Oxford , claim that over the past twelve years , the lack of funding given by the Conservative government has led to a ’ dramatic deterioration in the quality and depth of British science . ’ |