Example sentences of "claiming that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The pre-emption thesis is wrong in claiming that they too are pre-empted . |
| 6 | Following the incident the couple put their Colorado home up for sale and returned to their native Norway , claiming that they no longer felt welcome in the USA . |
| 7 | AMERICA 'S psychiatrists believe that too many defendants in important court cases in the US are escaping conviction by claiming that they are insane — and psychiatrists are often too keen to help them . |
| 8 | It prevents those who do neuter their pets from claiming that they are simply responsible citizens who wish to assist in the elimination of starving strays . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Following a precedent set by The Stone Roses , who broke free from the Silvertone label by claiming that they were tied to an unfair contract , Michael is to sue Sony on the grounds that his deal is restrictive and financially inadequate . |
| 12 | In this , however , he may be naive , for unless he is prepared to say what pertinent effects are , it is not clear what grounds he has for claiming that they always exist . |
| 13 | Milpitas , California-based NetFrame Systems Inc has expanded its product line with a new C/S — for client-server — family of systems , claiming that they are the industry 's first multiprocessing parallel superservers optimised to support client-server applications . |
| 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 | Demand , he said , continues to be strong , above 1992 , claiming that they are ‘ almost sold out for the quarter . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And all the firms are claiming that they only get their hardwood from government erm replanting programmes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He brought an action against the chairman and secretary of the club , as officers of the club , claiming that they were liable for the injuries he had sustained by reason of the condition of the club 's premises . |
| 21 | Although , claiming that they bring attention to their own historicity , New Historicists are reluctant to map out what that historicity is . |
| 22 | Opposition Members are always doughty fighters when claiming that they wish to preserve youth employment . |
| 23 | How can the Government conceivably justify the untruth of claiming that they are maintaining an aid programme when , according to their own figures , they have halved that provided by Labour ? |
| 24 | I have never understood why she was criticised by the Opposition for speaking up for Britain , but I am not exactly clear about their present position , except that they seem to be claiming that they can negotiate better conditions than the Government , despite their failure when in government in 1975 to negotiate proper terms for our entry . |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | Opposition groups , centred on 32 former members of the National Assembly dissolved in 1986 [ see pp. 34767-68 ] , had campaigned for a boycott of the elections , claiming that they were unconstitutional and were designed to elect a council " without teeth " . |
| 27 | On March 20 the Indian authorities rejected Pakistani government charges of human rights violations , claiming that they were based on a " terrorist disinformation campaign " ; the most dramatic allegation related to the mass rape on Feb. 23 of 30-60 women and girls when 800 troops of the 4th Rajput Rifles had sealed off the village of Kunan Poshpura . |
| 28 | 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 . ] . |
| 29 | A federal judge had recently prohibited runoffs in citywide elections after a lawsuit claiming that they were used to discriminate against black candidates . |
| 30 | 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 . |