Example sentences of "it claim that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are proceedings before the International Court between A and B , a third State , C , may be able to intervene to raise its interest before the Court ; or C may have sufficient interest to enable it to claim that there is a dispute between itself and A and/or B and ( assuming jurisdiction ) initiate its own action . |
| 2 | How is it claimed that punishment reduces crime ? |
| 3 | It claimed that there were not enough members on them ; yet we have seen that in Tsaritsyn at least there was a superfluity of ineffective plenary members . |
| 4 | It claimed that people feel more in control of their lives if they are inching forward on a journey , rather than waiting for something to happen . |
| 5 | It claimed that the tyranny of architectural principles often impeded the functioning of a building , as it was an ‘ Art which thinks man made for it , not itself for man ’ . |
| 6 | It said that there was ‘ no empirical evidence for correlating a politician 's effectiveness in office with his or her sexual orientation ’ ; it was critical of ‘ a large reason for electing a party being because its leader is fortunate in his [ sic ] marriage ’ ; it claimed that the family had been ‘ elevated into the status of party policy . |
| 7 | In 1986 , TV Guide published a cover story entitled ‘ Why American TV is So Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda ’ , in which it claimed that the Libyan hit team story was really a figment of a KGB campaign to spread alarm and ‘ to destabilise public opinion in the west ’ . |
| 8 | It claimed that bull-running was and warned that |
| 9 | It claimed that those detained ‘ have been involved in terrorism the use of violence , including murder , intimidation , arson and the use of explosives ’ and asserted that among them were persons who , but for the intimidation of witnesses , would have been charged with : |
| 10 | It claimed that ‘ The pooling of coal and steel production will immediately provide for the establishment of common bases for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe , and will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the munitions of war , of which they have been the most constant victims ’ . |
| 11 | It claimed that some teachers in the primary school had allowed performance in the basic skills of reading , writing and arithmetic to be adversely affected by their inadequate understanding and hence uncritical application of child-centred , or informal , methods . |
| 12 | It claimed that not 325 objects but 463 objects were missing from the museum . |
| 13 | It claimed that very few of those who had died in the violence had been killed by traditional weapons , that 75 per cent of deaths were caused by bullets and 20 per cent by hacking with weapons which could not be described as traditional . |
| 14 | It claimed that some 300 people had been detained and tortured in 1990-91 and many had been tortured . |
| 15 | In a report on Feb. 14 the New York-based human rights group Helsinki Watch called on Tudjman to investigate and bring to an end serious human rights violations in Croatia , where it claimed that the new government had been executing and torturing detainees and unarmed citizens and destroying property . |
| 16 | It claimed that the removal of barriers to trade could , in certain circumstances , be beneficial to the environment . |
| 17 | It claimed that more than 600 opposition party members had been detained without trial since the dismissal of the PPP government in August 1990 [ see pp. 37652-53 ] . |
| 18 | While admitting that forested areas were becoming smaller as a result of " rapid development " , it claimed that both Indonesia and Malaysia had taken steps " to sustain forest resources " . |
| 19 | It claimed that this would extend the life of the timber reserves of Sarawak to at least 20 years , in contrast to the International Tropical Timber Organization 's estimate of 11 years . |
| 20 | It claimed that some trees might have been listed as endangered through insufficient data , and decided that if the report were published , it could adversely affect efforts to sell species " mistakenly " included on the list . |
| 21 | It claimed that a large amount of money would be the immediate reward if you were delivered unharmed to the nearest British post . |
| 22 | It claimed that Ms Oruene had failed to show she was treated less favourably than any other candidate and that there was not a shred of evidence to show that it had deviated from normal procedures . |
| 23 | It claims that in the five years to the end of 1988 Pearl 's new annual premium business rose by an average of 3.7 per cent a year against a UK market average of 13 per cent a year . |
| 24 | It claims that ‘ several hundred , whose names are unknown , ’ are believed to be in prison . |
| 25 | The EC is blocking pork and beef imports because it claims that American slaughterhouses are unsanitary ; the Americans are blocking some wine imports because they have not tested a drug used in its production . |
| 26 | The government , they say , is bluffing when it claims that TECs are intended to tackle Britain 's persistent skills shortage . |
| 27 | It claims that it is as unhappy as ever with the reforms : the NHS is still short of cash and the reforms are much too bureaucratic . |
| 28 | It claims that developing the single isomer form of conventional drugs is a good way for such companies to minimise erosion of their market share by generic drug manufacturers by effectively extending patent protection for the product . |
| 29 | It claims that the normal way to establish that a person has authority over another person involves showing that the alleged subject is likely better to comply with reasons which apply to him ( other than the alleged authoritative directives ) if he accepts the directives of the alleged authority as authoritatively binding and tries to follow them , rather than by trying to follow the reasons which apply to him directly . |
| 30 | That is , it claims unlimited authority , it claims that there is an obligation to obey it whatever its content may be . |