Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] claim [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It found it ‘ indisputable that under Article 103 of the Charter the Member State called upon to apply the sanctions could not claim to be debarred from doing so by a treaty binding it to the non-Member State which was the subject of the sanctions . ’ |
| 2 | Some NAM members , including Egypt , Iran , Malaysia and Pakistan , tried unsuccessfully to secure the expulsion of the FRY delegation on the grounds that it could not claim to be the rightful successor of the former Yugoslav state . |
| 3 | We could n't claim to be anything else ; we could n't speak for the families of Terry Waite or Brian Keenan . |
| 4 | She would not claim to be content , because contentment came with having the man you loved lying beside you on a cold night ; it came with that certain wonderful intimacy which Beth had experienced once long ago , and which was lost for ever . |
| 5 | Conference papers can be notoriously esoteric and dull as a collection and I would not claim to be gripped from the first page to the last . |
| 6 | Now I do n't think of us here and neither , certainly myself , I I would not claim to be any form of artist or expert but I think a lot of us can enjoy er getting our hands dabbling with paint erm paper mâché and other activities and in fact having that opportunity of ex enjoying those experiences that 's we ought to be able to offer to people in Cambridge and many peop children in schools they they do get opportunities but I think particularly amongst older people who 've never had that opportunity and I think you should be do so . |
| 7 | He refuses , though , to call these lines poetry : ‘ I would n't claim to be a poet — I just think words are important too . ’ |
| 8 | He refuses , though , to call these lines poetry : ‘ I would n't claim to be a poet — I just think words are important too . |
| 9 | ‘ Creative I would n't claim to be , but I 've known them — lots of them . ’ |
| 10 | Unless you talk to people regularly you ca n't claim to be in touch with what they are thinking . ’ |
| 11 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't claim to be a sailing fanatic , but this is a lot more civilised than battling through a Force Six in the Solent , togged up like an alien from outer space in thermals and foul-weather gear ! ’ |
| 13 | So I can not claim to be an expert , but I have been considering spending my own money on America this year . |
| 14 | ‘ Any Christian Catechism that does not uphold this right ( to life ) can not claim to be an authentic , integral , complete announcement of the Christian faith ’ , she wrote in the Catholic newspaper , The Tablet . |
| 15 | The difficulties in which Althusser subsequently became enmeshed were the result of his ignoring Canguilhem 's warning that although the history of science takes science for its object , it is not itself a science , and therefore can not claim to be value-free ( or , in Marxist terms , non-ideological ) . |
| 16 | Moreover , because the bad copy by definition can not claim to be copying anything but itself , it creates its ‘ original ’ retroactively , so that the copy precedes the original in a ghostly originary repetition . |
| 17 | Although " commercial enterprise may have a legitimate and desirable object … that object can not claim to be the satisfaction of any of the three great national affections — the love of truth , the love of beauty , and the love of righteousness " . |
| 18 | But over time , the industry has adjusted and farmers there can not claim to be the only farmers in the developed world farming and exporting without the benefit of subsidies . |
| 19 | Journalists can not claim to be above the law , but what they can claim , in every country which takes free speech seriously , is a right to publish first , and take the risk of conviction afterwards . |
| 20 | The senior partner , Mr Alan Vickers , has been with the firm for 40 years but still can not claim to be the longest-serving member of staff . |