Example sentences of "claimed [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposed quota and duty system was strongly criticized by the Latin American producer countries , which claimed that it violated the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 2 | On Aug. 16 Iraq 's permanent representative at the UN , Abdul Amir al-Anbari , rejected Resolution 706 as a violation of Iraq 's sovereignty and claimed that it reduced Iraq 's position to one of " trusteeship " . |
| 3 | Several years ago , miso came under fire from researchers who claimed that it caused high blood-pressure , then Japan 's number-one killer . |
| 4 | The committee claimed that it had the support of 90 per cent of the area 's population and noted that representatives of the IDA , IIRS , AFF , Raybestos and the trade unions did not attend , despite being invited . |
| 5 | Some other passengers claimed that it had actually ‘ only ’ taken 36 hours , but I do n't believe them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Islamic Jihad of Palestine group claimed that it had planted the bomb in protest at the Rishon Le Zion killings . |
| 9 | UNITA on the other hand claimed that it had killed 82 government troops in these attacks and others in Cabinda and Uige provinces . |
| 10 | A 50-day strike in the automobile industry ended on Aug. 1 , when Autolatina , the Brazilian holding company for the Ford and Volkswagen car manufacturers , claimed that it had lost sales worth over US$300 million . |
| 11 | Aoun , and most Western diplomats , blamed the LF militia for the attack , but Geaga claimed that it had been organized by Aoun 's own intelligence officers in an attempt to gain a measure of international sympathy . |
| 12 | Rejecting " the right of the United States to be the policeman of the Caribbean " , the government claimed that it had offered a search by the Mexican authorities . |
| 13 | Public Information Minister Choi Chang Yoon claimed that it had turned the tide in the government 's struggle with the latest wave of student unrest , the worst to have been experienced by the Roh administration . |
| 14 | The Turkish army claimed that it had killed at least 34 guerrillas in the operation in the Cudi Mountains of south-eastern Turkey , 50 km from the border with Iraq . |
| 15 | Reports on Jan. 30 said that two military judges in Padua examining the legality of " Gladio " had , in an interim indictment , charged the organization with " possible acts of terrorism " and claimed that it had maintained close links with the fascist " Marine Star " established after the Second World War . |
| 16 | Despite being outnumbered by three or four to one the KNU claimed that it had inflicted heavy casualties . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Swiss company Acher Partners admitted its involvement , but claimed that it had simply arranged the contract on behalf of Progresso of Italy , while the latter denied any involvement in illegal activities . |
| 19 | The Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) claimed that it had " forced major concessions " from the government at the end of a meeting in Gaborone , Botswana , on Oct. 23-24 , when the two sides agreed that CODESA was unrepresentative . |
| 20 | Acher claimed that it had merely arranged the contract on behalf of Progresso , but representatives of the latter denied involvement in illegal activities . |
| 21 | The plaintiffs were manufacturers of a boiler disincrustant and claimed that it had been produced by a secret process . |
| 22 | Some genial foreign observers claimed that it illustrated that gloomy predictions about Britain 's demise , like that of Mark Twain , were much exaggerated . |
| 23 | The Board claimed that it owned the land by virtue of a private Act of Parliament , the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 24 | Iraq ( itself fully independent since 1932 , and rid of the monarchy with its London connections since 1958 ) claimed that it owned Kuwait . |
| 25 | One company in the food processing and distribution market claimed that it experienced a 50% reduction in absenteeism from 8% to 4% over a three year period . |
| 26 | Giray publicly attributed his resignation to personal differences with Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut , but sources within the ruling Motherland Party claimed that it stemmed from a factional rift concerning the organization of delegate elections for the party congress due in January 1991 . |
| 27 | He claimed that it did n't matter what mantra you said , or indeed if you did n't have one , as long as you cleared out your mind . |
| 28 | He denounced Western complacency " towards the daily killings of the Bosnians " and claimed that it stood " in stark contrast to the response to the alleged killings of the Kurds in Iraq " . |
| 29 | The treaty was denounced by Israel , which claimed that it marked the virtual annexation of Lebanon by Syria . |
| 30 | The Director of Studies expressed strong misgivings over the amount of his time ( he claimed that it has ‘ cost ’ him 32 periods ) which the review of this small department had taken . |