Example sentences of "claimed [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a majority of 51 per cent at the start of the campaign , rising to 58 per cent at the end , Conservative partisans claimed that their paper was biased towards the Conservative party . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By I7 October 1983 six marines had been killed by snipers but Reagan claimed that their presence in the Lebanon was ‘ vitally important to the security of the United States and the Western world ’ . |
| 6 | The Fascists claimed that their name derived from the fasces , bundles of rods carried as a symbol of power by victors of the Roman Empire . |
| 7 | Psychics such as Jeanne Dixon , the late Doris Stokes and my local professional clairvoyant all claimed that their gifts fell from heaven . |
| 8 | She claimed that their action had been ill-considered and ironic coming so soon after the launch of their customer service charter . |
| 9 | Clinton aides claimed that their own polling showed their man winning comfortably , a steady seven points ahead of Bush . |
| 10 | Search consultants themselves claimed that their business did markedly increase — in the number of new clients as well as in terms of the number of individual assignments — as a result of the Big Bang , and that the level of their work has continued to grow steadily , in spite of subsequent national economic changes . |
| 11 | Overall only 4% claimed that their jobs required less skill , and only 4% of women in lower-grade white-collar jobs claimed to have been deskilled . |
| 12 | Over a quarter of respondents claimed that their organisation was either implementing and operating an Open Systems strategy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In other business the Supreme Court upheld the convictions of eight members of the nationwide Sanctuary Movement , who claimed that their rights had been violated when agents had infiltrated church services to uncover evidence that they were harbouring illegal aliens from Central America . |
| 16 | He claimed that their plans to dump the roubles back into the Soviet money supply had been forestalled , a matter of hours before it was due to begin , only by his quick decision to order the immediate withdrawal of the high-denomination rouble notes . |
| 17 | LTTE sources , however , claimed that their total casualties did not exceed 17 . |
| 18 | Ulimo officials on Aug. 25 professed to be committed to the ECOWAS peace initiative and claimed that their forces were only fighting to ensure that the NPFL abided by the Yamoussoukro agreement . |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | However , its operations have been the focus of sustained criticism from environmental groups and the local Achuar Indians , who claimed that their hunting and agriculture were at risk . |
| 21 | The shadow employment secretary , Frank Dobson , claimed that their abolition could result in pay levels falling . |
| 22 | In a Parliamentary debate on wages councils Ms Eagle claimed that their abolition would see a return to poverty pay . |
| 23 | Leavisites , of course , claimed that they were committed to discussion , argument , the free play of mind ; in so far as they were , it was contained within the enclosing form of life , not directed against it , rather like arguments within Marxist-Leninist ideology . |
| 24 | A man who grew 1,659 cannabis plants said he was a ‘ heavy smoker ’ and claimed that they were all for his own use . |
| 25 | Similarly , Zuwaya claimed that they had had a Turkish licence — an exclusive licence , no less — to conduct traders and travellers who wished to cross the desert from Benghazi to Black Africa . |
| 26 | The commonest departure arose when two traits were determined by genes on the same chromosome ( that is , were genetically ‘ linked ’ ) , so that the traits did not segregate independently of one another , as Mendel claimed that they should . |
| 27 | Foujita , an inventive witness , claimed that they were lovers , although Jeanne 's friends insist that she was a virgin when she met Modigliani . |
| 28 | 47% admitted to enjoying looking at photographs of the Royal Family in newspapers and magazines , 50% claimed that they did not . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Colin and Eamon Meehan claimed that they were not guilty of trying to buy weapons in the US for the Provisional IRA because their internment by the British in the 1970s drove them insane . |