Example sentences of "[pron] claim to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My claim to fame nowadays is that I am one of the seven people who did not vote for world peace . |
| 2 | They had stumbled upon my claim to fame , a gift not given to many . |
| 3 | My claim to fame . |
| 4 | ‘ Fighting talk ’ stakes its claim to credibility through the narrative conventions of autobiographical realism ; the continual citation of ‘ first hand ’ experience conveys an implicit message that it is their encounter with black people which has led these boys to adopt racist arguments and not any external ideological influence . |
| 5 | But sticking with the Conservative establishment may mean that the CPS loses its claim to radicalism . |
| 6 | Accuracy , which is first and last its claim to existence , has many aspects , of which the simplest is mimicry ; and Kingsley Amis happens , not coincidentally , to be a notable mimic in conversation . |
| 7 | If , however , we do apply anthropological and linguistic perspectives to this recent work on the consequences of literacy , as I claim we must despite its claim to protection from them , then that work in fact turns out to be as biased as that of the earlier phases . |
| 8 | Israel 's state is hidden from God ( A ) in the sense that its claim to restitution has failed to attract his attention ( B ) . |
| 9 | When my right hon. Friend sees the new Irish Prime Minister soon will he tell him that the biggest contribution the Irish Republic can make to peace , stability and reconciliation in Northern Ireland is to renounce its claim to sovereignty over Northern Ireland , as that claim encourages Irish Republican terrorism and gives it legitimacy , as well as being the strongest stumbling block in the way of all-party talks aimed at constitutional progress ? |
| 10 | Exponents of this approach aim to overcome the deficiencies of absolute holism by sacrificing its claim to completeness , and their concession therefore consists in abandoning the Althusserean dogma that there is just one mode in which to explain all social phenomena . |
| 11 | But if this theory fails its claim to universality — as I have suggested — then so , too , does the theory of listening ; relative autonomy , variants , contradictions in the musical work allow the possibility of individual response , while repetitive structures , if defined as ‘ formulate ’ rather than ‘ standardized ’ , raise the possibility of still-valid collective meanings ( rather than passive mass consumption ) . |
| 12 | Law binds not because it says it does ( although it does say just that ) but because there are good reasons for accepting its claim to mandatoriness and these good reasons have to do with what law can do for us in certain situations of social opportunity , difficulty and peril . |
| 13 | Yet discussions of the threat to public service broadcasting have ignored not only the potential for change but also the deficiencies of the existing system which would make us question its benefits and its claim to permanence . |
| 14 | Most would agree that the professed raison d'être of the CpSU is the creation of a society ‘ of a new type ’ ; the basis of its claim to infallibility is that it stands in the vanguard of this process . |
| 15 | Finally , to the extent that political authority is justified by its ability to co-ordinate the activities of large populations , the vindication of its claim to authority over any one individual may depend on its having legitimate authority over the population at large . |
| 16 | Merleau-Ponty 's response was to argue that history itself had shown Marxist philosophy to have been flawed ; such philosophy must therefore give up its claim to truth . |
| 17 | ‘ The dialectic ’ , according to Sartre , ‘ is both a method and a movement in the object ’ ( I , 20 ) : Marxism asserts simultaneously that both the process of knowledge and the structure of the real are dialectical , but it has never proved the former — basing its claim to truth instead on the ‘ dogmatic dialectic , of natural science . |
| 18 | When Argentina recognises the right to self-determination and freedom of association of the Falklands people , and gives up her claim to sovereignty over the territory , we might be more amenable to trade and contact . |
| 19 | As a result it would be possible for the French at some future date to renew their claim to sovereignty over Aquitaine , and for the English to do the same in respect of the crown of France . |
| 20 | For their part , the Muslims had already given up their claim to reunion with Syria as their price for participation in government under the Covenant . |
| 21 | These doubts stem from a failure to appreciate the many ways in which the communal character of political authorities affects their claim to legitimacy vis-a-vis each individual . |
| 22 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 23 | It also confutes their claim to completeness by staging narrative structures for which they can not account . |
| 24 | The following autumn , rival mayors were again set up , and on the Sunday following the mayor-making , both sought to validate their claim to office by securing occupancy of the mayor 's pew in the two local churches . |
| 25 | Failure to provide this care will not lead to imprisonment unless there is evidence of criminal neglect , but may well reduce or remove their claim to maintenance on their husbands . |
| 26 | It is just that their claim to power is completely out-of-date . |
| 27 | At present victims must take their claims to court … a pressure group says the Government should pay . |
| 28 | Greek or Trojan ancestors were quite enough to support their claims to power . |
| 29 | Through this account we have found deliberate boundaries created by class members through their claims to status and their strategies of social closure . |
| 30 | For the ‘ political ’ press this is self-evident since their raison d'être is the reporting of politics , but even other sections of the press inevitably turn to political affairs to confirm their claims to seriousness . |