Example sentences of "claimed be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had demanded exorbitant fees for his speaking engagements and billed the Socialist Labor Party for theatre tickets and corsages which he claimed were for Eleanor . |
| 2 | In many cases , this form of guaranteed sales is running at barely half that of 1989 , when the boom was such that the government was forced to drop limits on subscriptions , which it claimed were forced upon it by lack of newsprint . |
| 3 | They embraced one last time and then he was off , rushing to Ferdinando to help him carry down what he claimed were his ‘ very most precious ’ things . |
| 4 | The unions issued the warning as they published what they claimed were leaked BR maps detailing the impact of privatisation on the network . |
| 5 | For the second day Yugoslav jets attacked Croat villages to the east of Mostar , which the Yugoslav army claimed were being used to launch raids on its garrisons . |
| 6 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 7 | Lyalin also gave MI6 bizarre details of what he claimed were Russian plans to sabotage military establishments in Britain prior to the outbreak of World War III . |
| 8 | Heber 's grants from the federal government for raising IQs totalled in the millions of dollars , much more than the usual federal funding level , and the results he claimed were comparably out of the ordinary . |
| 9 | Newall had been staging a partial hunger strike — refusing all solid food — in protest at what his lawyer claimed were ‘ inhuman ’ conditions . |
| 10 | The squads from the Department of Public Security always did their work at night , taking into custody those they claimed were a threat to the regime . |
| 11 | He also drew my Attention to what he claimed were certain impurities in the material of my Cupel . |
| 12 | As though he had suddenly realised that Curtis was bluffing him , frightening him into pleading for mercy in a pathetic attempt to humiliate him — or perhaps to force from him a confession of what the lieutenant claimed were his crimes against the whores he had exterminated . |
| 13 | Japan and Hong Kong called on July 17-19 for stricter control of anti-dumping measures , which they claimed were sometimes being applied in violation of normal price competition procedures . |
| 14 | They also pointed to what they claimed were morale-boosting concessions by the Soviet leadership to the armed forces , notably the promotion of Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov to the rank of Marshal on April 28 , and the holding of a big military parade in Red Square on May 9 to mark the 45th anniversary of the end of Second World War hostilities in Europe . |
| 15 | He had fled Romania after having been accused of helping anti-government demonstrators in Bucharest and after having survived what he claimed were three assassination attempts . |
| 16 | The Taiwanese Defence Ministry said on April 24 that it would continue its loudspeaker broadcasts to the mainland , which it claimed were aimed at " keeping our mainland compatriots informed of free world developments " . |
| 17 | During the election campaign Gamsakhurdia 's opponents had concentrated on attacking what they claimed were his dictatorial tendencies ( a week before the election his ruling Round Table-Free Georgia coalition had sponsored legislation passed by the Georgian parliament making it a criminal offence , punishable by up to six years in prison , to insult the Georgian President ) . |
| 18 | On Aug. 20 , King Hassan of Morocco called on the UN to delay the referendum by four months ; Morocco was disputing the UN 's " consolidated list " of approximately 74,000 Sahrawis deemed entitled to vote , and was objecting to Manz 's rejection of a Moroccan list of some 120,000 people it claimed were refugees from the territory entitled to vote . |
| 19 | The story of a plot had been leaked to various newspapers , and on Sept. 19 the authorities put on public display various small firearms , improvised grenades , loudhailers , photocopying equipment and other items which they claimed were being used to make weapons . |
| 20 | On Oct. 31 Israeli troops and the SLA shelled a number of villages east of Sidon , in the area of Nabatiyeh and along the Iqlim el Toufah ridge , which they claimed were Hezbollah bases . |
| 21 | The Algerian ambassador to Iran was recalled on Jan. 18 , following what the Algerian Foreign Ministry claimed were unacceptable attacks by the official Iranian media which could harm " the sovereignty and unity " of the Algerian people . |
| 22 | The UVF claimed responsibility for the shootings on Jan. 4 and Jan. 30 of Catholic civilians who it claimed were members of the IRA . |
| 23 | Among those detained in January and February were reportedly some 50 imams whose sermons the new authorities claimed were prejudicial to public order [ for Jan. 22 prohibition of political activity in mosques see p. 38703 ] . |
| 24 | Several thousand demostrators had taken to the streets , attacked " indecently dressed " women ( who they claimed were responsible for a drought ) , set fire to the head office of the Niger Women 's Association ( AFN ) , and also attacked the residences of the local prefect and sultan . |
| 25 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 26 | [ The Faroese has earlier appealed to Greenpeace — which had strongly campaigned against the islanders ' traditional whale-hunt — for help in countering pollution which they claimed were making the whales inedible — see ED 49/50 . ] |
| 27 | For an instance where the medical expenses claimed were held to be unreasonably high , see Roberts v Roberts ( 1960 ) The Times , 11 March ; for cases where very high medical expenses were held to have been reasonably incurred , see Winkworth v Hubbard [ 1960 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 150 and Hamp v Sisters of St Joseph 's Mount Carmel Convent School Bar Library Transcript No 305B of 1973 ( Kemp & Kemp D2-011 and D2-100 ( Sweet & Maxwell ) , The Quantum of Damages , 2 , para 5 – 011 ) . |
| 28 | He then went on to discuss whether an employee could use his recollection of any features of the plaintiff 's plant , machinery or process which they claimed were peculiar to them even though they admitted that their competitors used similar machinery . |
| 29 | Their Holden Racing Team ( HRT ) Commodore V8 , which the pundits claimed was dated and slow , outlasted a pack of Ford Sierras and a Nissan Skyline GT-R to take the flag a mere 15sec ahead of Paul Radisich and Jeff Allam , driving Dick Johnson 's second Shell Sierra Cosworth . |
| 30 | One result he claimed was a proof that the circle could be squared . |