Example sentences of "claim to have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've never claimed to be a punk rocker , I 've just claimed to have liked punk rock music . |
| 2 | In the past Gates had claimed to have heard rumours of the operation only on Oct. 1 , 1986 , less than seven weeks before it became public . |
| 3 | Partners leaving the five-man practice were claimed to have raided computer records and accounts and waged a campaign against Dr Williams , the senior partner , who is staying with the practice . |
| 4 | Key Sun employees in the areas of programming and signal processing are said to be moving to the new company , which is claimed to have made breakthroughs in security and ease of use . |
| 5 | The UK chemical industry has claimed to have improved performance on emissions and environmental spending . |
| 6 | A Sunday newspaper said Spiro had claimed to have paid money to Terry Waite 's kidnappers on behalf of the British Government . |
| 7 | A Sunday newspaper said Spiro had claimed to have paid money to Terry Waite 's kidnappers on behalf of the British Government . |
| 8 | At least some of the abuse is claimed to have taken place last year . |
| 9 | Yardley was proud that he was one of the few bowlers who could claim to have dismissed Bradman three times in Tests . |
| 10 | Yardley , a second- or third-change bowler throughout his career , was rightly proud to be one of the very few who could claim to have dismissed Bradman thrice in Test matches . |
| 11 | What Hill had found was that children would claim to have seen video-nasties , rather than that they had actually seen them . |
| 12 | The Conservatives can thus claim to have cut tax since 1979 while official statistics show that total taxation as a proportion of GNP has increased . |
| 13 | THE railways can claim to have helped Britain progress in many directions , but one of their lesser-known achievements is Middleton St George . |
| 14 | O'Conor wo n't claim to have practised Field 's florid passagework a thousand times , but his researches , clearly , have brought him peculiar satisfaction . |
| 15 | This latest incident , involving the sixth IAEA team which arrived in Iraq on Sept. 22 , occurred when armed guards prevented some inspectors from leaving the premises of an office block in the centre of Baghdad , the capital , where , on Sept. 24 , they claimed to have discovered evidence of an Iraqi uranium enrichment programme based on sophisticated centrifuge technology . |
| 16 | The government admitted only four killed and 18 arrested and claimed to have discovered arms caches at the victims ' homes . |
| 17 | In a recent well-publicised controversy a group of scientists claimed to have obtained results whereby water that once had a certain substance in it continued to behave as if the substance was present even after the substance had been removed ; as if the water retained a ‘ memory ’ of the substance . |
| 18 | The paper reported that the school claimed to have saved £40,000 by buying in bulk but that ‘ The National Union of Teachers has criticised the move as a misuse of the school 's low-income clothing allowance which smacked of marketing ’ . |
| 19 | But as they questioned radio hams who use electronic scanning equipment to eavesdrop on mobile-phone conversations , they discovered four more individuals who claimed to have heard Diana in intimate conversation with Mr Gilbey . |
| 20 | Again , still on the matter of ambiguity , Zuwaya claimed to have levied taxes on the oases of Awjla and Jalu ( a claim the inhabitants of those oases did not take seriously at all ) , and they cited this as an example of their freedom to do what they chose in their Sahara . |
| 21 | On each occasion they claimed to have inflicted casualties running into several hundreds killed , and also that the supposed Libyan-backed Islamic Legion was involved . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Indeed , one Wettin of Reichnau , a visionary monk , claimed to have seen Charles in Purgatory , where the purifying flames burned away his lust in preparation for his entry into Heaven . |
| 24 | In the week before the stranding several people , mainly fishermen , claimed to have seen whales entering the Wash , perhaps in pursuit of the fish that make up the bulk of their diet . |
| 25 | Sick also suggested that several people claimed to have seen Bush at the Paris meeting , although he admitted that he was not yet convinced of the veracity of this aspect of the affair . |
| 26 | From March 2 the Tigre People 's Liberation Front ( TPLF ) and their allies , grouped under the title of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) , claimed to have gained control of the Gojam region north-west of Addis Ababa , as part of a successful offensive launched on Feb. 23 . |
| 27 | The JNA claimed to have gained control of all 27 Slovenian border crossings , although Slovenian forces were still claiming to hold some of them . |
| 28 | He later claimed to have made £500 on the deal . |
| 29 | I had the misfortune of sharing a tent with a compulsive masturbator called Ollie , an unfortunate-looking fellow with rocking-horse nostrils and a pale green complexion , who claimed to have reached orgasm eight times in a single afternoon . |
| 30 | Turberville claimed to have reached agreement with the recently defeated Morgan of Wales [ q.v. ] that he should rebel again if the Scots would follow suit . |