Example sentences of "his claims to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he can make headway towards restoring a balanced budget , then his claims to be the Right 's principal contender for the leadership in the 21st century will be considerably enhanced . |
| 2 | A recent biographer questions his claims to be described as ‘ saintly ’ . |
| 3 | Any patient seeing this man would have to check his claims to be a doctor themselves . |
| 4 | His experiments with printmaking included aquatint , for which his claims to be the inventor are strong : he certainly published , in 1771 , the first aquatint in England after a painting by his friend John Hamilton Mortimer [ q.v. ] , and , ever short of money and frequently in debt , sold the process to Paul Sandby [ q.v. ] , to whom it is usually credited , for £40 . |
| 5 | And last October it was announced that his claims to be innocent would be heard once again by the Court of Appeal . |