Example sentences of "they claimed be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Douglas was eventually acquitted of any offence , his initial conviction and the methods of the police — which included presenting in court what they claimed was a transcript of their tape of his speech , but which was only one third of the length of another tape-recording which was played to the court — led many Free Presbyterians and sympathizers to believe that the whole force of the state was being directed against them . |
| 2 | Over the following weeks , Portadown loyalists harassed the police in retaliation for what they claimed was police persecution . |
| 3 | They described the person they claimed was the agent in sufficient detail to direct Derek 's attention towards a particular individual . |
| 4 | They were overheating in the Med , which they claimed was like swimming in spit . |
| 5 | Amid renewed protests aroused by the Serbian LC statement , the Serbian minority in Kosovo appealed on Feb. 19 for army protection against what they claimed was a threatened massacre by ethnic Albanians . |
| 6 | It was the first general strike call made by the 45,000-member union , and on June 15 about 17 of 32 members of the MWU 's national council signed a communiqué denouncing MWU general secretary Mohammed Ould Rahdy for launching what they claimed was a politically motivated strike . |
| 7 | His beatification aroused criticism from some Catholics not only because of the relatively short time that had elapsed since his death , but also because of what they claimed was the right-wing content of his views . |
| 8 | From captured government-owned television and radio stations in the capital , the rebels appealed to Venezuelans to join the rebellion against what they claimed was a corrupt government which had benefited a narrow elite at the expense of growing poverty among the population . |
| 9 | The researchers were highly critical of the continued evacuation programme , based on these measurements , which they claimed was both medically unwarranted and psychologically traumatic . |
| 10 | The unions issued the warning as they published what they claimed were leaked BR maps detailing the impact of privatisation on the network . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | [ 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 . ] |
| 19 | 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 . |