Example sentences of "[unc] claims that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wildenstein 's claims that this agreement was broken by the sale at Christie 's . |
| 2 | The rise in unemployment frustrated the government 's spending plans , because of the rising costs of social security ; it also undermined the credibility of the government 's claims that its economic strategy was working and that economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 3 | Casting aside Pennzoil 's claims that it had no intention of launching a bid , Chevron moved into top gear to protect itself against a takeover which could be worth $35billion and would revive memories of some of the biggest corporate battles of the 1970 's and 80's . |
| 4 | The credibility of the party 's claims that it could safely be entrusted with the running of the British economy would thus be greatly enhanced . |
| 5 | But Berkeley 's claims that his Immaterialism avoided the scepticism endemic in his predecessors , and restored philosophy to the beliefs of sound common sense , were not accepted . |
| 6 | We also reject Urquhart 's claims that population thyroid exposures due to the presence of tellurium-132 and molybdenum in the release were not considered in the board 's study . |
| 7 | In view of that stated aim , I was surprised to find no mention of Sherwood Idso 's claims that all of the fuss is a result of climatologists barking up the wrong tree , misled by computer models which are all making the same mistake . |
| 8 | This is not only because it has a weak case — as we show elsewhere ( this issue , p 76 ) , there are certainly some doubts about the validity of the CEGB 's claims that Sizewell B will reduce the cost of electricity in England and Wales by allowing the board to burn less coal — but also because it is difficult to see what the inspector can say about economics when he comes to writing his final report . |
| 9 | In answer to Tamar 's claims that she had no clothes suitable for a visit to the capital , Stephen persuaded her to wait until they arrived and then she would be able to buy something . |
| 10 | Despite Schlesinger 's claims that ‘ there was n't anything in the movie that I had n't seen in some way somewhere ’ and ‘ one was always confronted by something worse on the streets than one was putting into the film ’ , they were attention-getting elements , unabsorbed into the texture of the film . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Gordon Durie reacted angrily to Tottenham 's claims that he does n't want to play for them . |
| 12 | This happened despite the government 's claims that it was injecting market discipline into the private sector by not ‘ bailing out lame ducks ’ . |
| 13 | A TIMBER importer has spoken out against Friends of the Earth 's claims that the mahogany trade is steeped in death and destruction . |
| 14 | Smart 's claims that he had the support in this enterprise of ‘ many of the Bishops and other dignified Clergymen ’ seems to have been completely unrealistic . |
| 15 | It made a mockery of Bryan Gould 's claims that up to 100 Labour MPs supported him . |
| 16 | Triumphant Pakistan angrily refuted Stewart 's claims that they had a secret method of making the old ball swing . |
| 17 | Given Ungermann 's fighting talk about Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop , the Dragonswitch seems something of an anti-climax , despite the company 's claims that , combined with Virtual Network Architecture it ‘ provides many of the benefits of Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology on today 's Ethernet networks ’ . |
| 18 | In spite of Hutchinson 's claims that he had 20,000 members in the Mansfield district , and large numbers of followers in Lancashire and other industrial areas , and that he had printed hundreds of thousands of copies of the National Worker , there was no evidence that he had any members in his organization . |
| 19 | The bank also denies last year 's claims that it had signed a major deal with IBM to supply RS6000s ( UX No 323 ) , saying that it was only ‘ evaluating ’ the IBM equipment . |
| 20 | Goody 's claims that Greek historians have distinguished myth from history is of a kind with the uncritical faith of these classicists . |
| 21 | Despite Tom King 's claims that there is a fine distinction between the two , both the 1976 Act and the 1989 Act will only produce marginal change . |
| 22 | These technological successes gave credibility to Khruschev 's claims that Communist states could eventually overtake capitalist economic growth . |
| 23 | A taxation of the bills would not prejudice the debtor 's claims that he was given negligent advice . |
| 24 | In south-eastern Chad , Mosanat ( Mouvement pour la salvation nationale tchadienne ) claimed military victories in early March 1989 ( see p. 36519 ) and denied the government 's claims that fighting in that region had involved a Libyan-backed Islamic Legion ( a force of some 2,000 whom the Sudanese authorities said had crossed from Libya into Sudan in early August 1988 , and on whom the Habre government claimed to have inflicted defeats in December 1988 some 100 km west of the Sudanese border ) . |
| 25 | In a speech on June 7 the Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali Akbar Vellayati , described the Arab summit resolution as " in contrast to the Iraqi regime 's claims that it wants peace " , and dismissed as " illogical " its proposal for prisoner-of-war exchange to be conducted outside the framework of the peace negotiations . |
| 26 | Others involved a reduction in the number of annual tests from eight to six , and an invitation to foreign researchers to visit Mururoa to test France 's claims that there had been no severe environmental damage . |
| 27 | On Feb. 10 Ahmed al-Malat , assistant general guide of the Moslem Brotherhood , rejected the government 's claims that it was linked to a conspiracy . |
| 28 | The Russian Federation Security Council meeting on the same day expressed concern over arms deliveries from Romania to Moldova ( although on May 31 the Moldovan Foreign Ministry had denied Gen. Grachev 's claims that Romania was supplying Moldova with tanks , claiming that only pontoon bridges and trucks were donated ) . |
| 29 | The new evidence contradicted Bush 's claims that he was " out of the loop " of those who approved the Iran-contra operation and that , when he did discover the arms deal , he was unaware of its quid pro quo element in regard to the hostages . |
| 30 | A Norwegian scientist has challenged US space agency 's claims that the ozone layer is rapidly thinning . |