Example sentences of "[pron] claims to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though Rome was giving little in return in terms of moderating its claims to be the only true Christian church , faint liberal breezes had been blowing through the Vatican since the second Vatican Council . |
| 2 | In Blackpool — still stating its claims to be the biggest and the best in the 1980s , and countering the continental drift with slogans like ‘ Costa Notta Lotta ’ — there was a seven-fold rise in the number of private hotels between 1924 and 1938 . |
| 3 | If it does not , all its claims to be the guardian of the citizen and service user fall to nothing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |