Example sentences of "claim to [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is especially the case with the liberal democratic form of the state whose claim to legitimacy rests on the access to the political system which it grants to non-dominant interests . |
| 2 | ( b ) In English law the choice of law rules governing claims for restitution are influenced by the claim being connected with a contract , having regard to the English conflict of laws rule that the proper law of the obligation to restore a benefit , if the obligation arises in connection with a contract , is the proper law of the contract : Dicey & Morris , The Conflict of Laws , 11th ed. ( 1987 ) , p. 1350 , r. 203. ( c ) Quasi-contractual claims , at least where there is a contract involved , should probably fall per se under article 5(1) : see the opinion of the editors of Dicey & Morris , at p. 341 , to this effect , and the decision of the Scottish courts that a statutory claim to contribution falls within the article in Engdiv Ltd. v. G. Percy Trentham Ltd. , 1990 S.L.T. 617 , 621. ( d ) In the case of a claim for the return of moneys paid under an ineffective contract , there is no artificiality in deducing an implied promise to pay , even though the old theory that restitution was based on the concept of such an implied promise is now largely discredited . |
| 3 | If true this undermines any claim to efficiency made for the market economy . |
| 4 | Biron 's claim to learning resides in the possession of books that he does not read . |
| 5 | By one of the great ironic twists , the club 's claims to aristocracy hinged on the moods of a working-class roadsweeper from Glasgow . |
| 6 | ‘ In the 19th century , a series of cases forced upon the Commons and courts a comprehensive review of the issues which divided them , from which it became clear that some of the earlier claims to jurisdiction made in the name of privilege by the House of Commons were untenable in a court of law : that the law of Parliament was part of the general law , that its principles were not beyond the judicial knowledge of the judges , and that it was the duty of the common law to define its limits could no longer be disputed . |