Example sentences of "claiming [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claiming that whatever happened was an ‘ accident ’ is another means of denying intent . |
| 2 | But , despite this fragmentation , strong shared assumptions exist about the character of the discipline overall and we shall risk claiming that they yield only three distinctive approaches . |
| 3 | The PLO had refused to comply with the demands of the Lebanese government to disarm its forces based in southern Lebanon , claiming that they constituted an army and not a militia [ ibid . ] . |
| 4 | In April , the French and the Scots embarked on a polite exchange of congratulatory diplomatic compliments , with the French claiming that they had attacked Boulogne only for the sake of the Scots . |
| 5 | The promoters of the Alexandra Palace show , Kennedy Street Enterprises , replied to fans ' accusations this week , claiming that they had done everything possible to provide tickets for genuine applicants . |
| 6 | As before , this new document , The School Curriculum , emphasised preparation for adult life and the economic needs of the country , and repeated the list of aims claiming that they had been widely accepted during consultations . |
| 7 | However , in April 1988 Teo , along with eight other original " conspirators " , issued a public statement claiming that they had been coerced into making their televised confessions [ see p. 36353 ] . |
| 8 | In East Jerusalem on Oct. 9 settlers , accompanied by three MPs from the right-wing Tehiya Party and one from the ruling Likud party , seized eight houses in the Arab neighbourhood of Silwan , claiming that they had been legally purchased by a state-owned company controlled by the Housing Minister , Ariel Sharon . |
| 9 | In an emotional debate , all Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) deputies walked out in protest , claiming that they had been insulted by Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) leader Leszek Moczulski . |
| 10 | Arslanián had reportedly accepted nine presidential recommendations but refused to confirm a further four judges , claiming that they had no merit other than Menem 's support . |
| 11 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 12 | Although , claiming that they bring attention to their own historicity , New Historicists are reluctant to map out what that historicity is . |
| 13 | Some of the shopkeepers , including Debbie Pitman , have issued writs against the developers , claiming that they failed to carry out agreements to promote the docks . |
| 14 | ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . ) |
| 15 | Opposition Members are always doughty fighters when claiming that they wish to preserve youth employment . |
| 16 | They have been fighting to keep their current size for more than three years , claiming that they wish to keep the school open to all-comers , rather than limit it to the number of children in Episcopalian families . |
| 17 | So we find , by the end of the fourteenth century , that persons are directing petitions to the Chancellor , claiming that they have at least a moral right to the benefit of these uses , and begging him to give them help against the legal owner who is setting up his Common Law rights against them . |
| 18 | Narrowing the field to either one or the other of these , has sometimes trapped the theoreticians into claiming that they have identified a defining characteristic of their field . |
| 19 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has introduced a new Y-MP M90 series of supercomputers , claiming that they offer the largest main memories ever , in the hope that they make it possible to solve important scientific and engineering problems that are too large for the memory of any existing computer system to handle efficiently . |
| 20 | If someone is given too much change in a supermarket , for instance , they might keep the money claiming that they need it much more than the supermarket does and , anyway , nobody would find out . |
| 21 | The argument from analogy concedes the first half of this but denies the second , claiming that we have at least some evidence to the contrary . |
| 22 | It went further in claiming that there existed a hypothetical price level at which the combined operation of the Keynes effect and the real-balance effect would stimulate aggregate demand by an amount sufficient to absorb the involuntarily unemployed into employment . |
| 23 | Although Commonwealth observers reported that voting had been free and fair , Mancham said that the poll had been rigged against the Democratic Party , claiming that there had been an " abundant use of state apparatus " in the SPPF campaign and that there had been irregularities in the establishment of the electoral lists , allowing some people to vote more than once . |
| 24 | Savimbi , however , claiming that there had been widespread electoral fraud , threatened to resume UNITA 's guerrilla war against the MPLA-PT . |
| 25 | The possibility of claiming that you have been constructively dismissed has already been mentioned several times . |
| 26 | During April 1988 , Suchard , the Swiss-based chocolate manufacturer , launched a dawn raid on Rowntree , the York-based company , quickly scooping up a stake of 14.9 per cent as a ‘ strategic investment ’ , but claiming that it had no intention of launching a full-scale takeover bid . |
| 27 | The following year Lawson requested reimbursement of this sum from Sir William , claiming that it had been paid from his own pocket ! |
| 28 | The Egyptian government responded to the attack with dismay , claiming that it had been " primarily directed against the efforts aimed at advancing the peace process in the region " . |
| 29 | The all-party talks on Oct. 12 proved inconclusive , and on Oct. 29 the SLFP withdrew its support for such talks , claiming that it had lost confidence in the government 's will to solve the country 's problems and that none of the opposition proposals had been put into effect . |
| 30 | W R Grace gained a patent on neem extract , which it called Margosan-O , in 1988 , claiming that it had developed a means of stabilizing the extracts . |