Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] claim to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this month a mass demonstration by radical green activists brought the yard to a standstill for a day and forced management into a face to face meeting with protestors where they claimed to be keenly supportive of the rainforest environment |
| 2 | One by one the Parsons ' former friends and acquaintances found reasons not to accept our invitations , and although they claimed to be anxious that we should ‘ get together some time ’ , that time never came . |
| 3 | I realised that men in politics had dominated world attitudes for long enough and although they claimed to be experts on everything , my experience showed that they understood very little . |
| 4 | Some member States may protest against actions of an organisation that they claim to be outside its powers as , for example , did France and the Soviet Union to the establishment of UNEF and ONUC . |
| 5 | He works for a development agency and two of his brothers were killed by Marcos so although he claims to be the least revolutionary of the family , he is fairly well into the issues . |
| 6 | The real importance of the Christian religion is that it claims to be true irrespective of how I regard it . |
| 7 | If it begins from the assumption of difference and then adduces literacy as the explanation , the argument is open to the same criticism that Goody himself levels at Lévi-Strauss ' dualism ; if , on the other hand , it begins from the assumption that literacy is the crucial source of difference and that the mental differences follow from this , then it is beginning from the very assumption that it claims to be setting out to prove . |
| 8 | I discover that he claimed to be the revelation of God himself , the One who shows us what God is like . |
| 9 | He must tighten that clause and accept the argument that he claimed to be attempting to grasp , which is to target the offence on violent offenders . |
| 10 | and he claims to be er able to move things and do the poltergeist stunt , you know ? |
| 11 | If it claims to be true , it must be willing to show the areas in which the evidence for its claims can be examined and found to be true . |
| 12 | ‘ I think he 's probably a bit mixed up in matters of doctrine but he claims to be a ‘ true protestant ’ not , as he says , a Lutheran protestant . |
| 13 | The magazine could not prove the truth of this statement , which it had sourced to an MI5 report , but it claimed to be able to justify the " sting " of the libel , namely that the plaintiff was a person given to extra-marital affairs , a number of which had been referred to in the article without attracting complaint . |
| 14 | The fact is that the building , whilst it claims to be flexible , is fairly inflexible . |
| 15 | Whether they claimed to be left-wing , right-wing , or neither at that time . |
| 16 | The proponents of the transnational relations approach have a tendency to analyze interactions within systems rather than effects of practices and , though they claim to be transcending the statecentric model , they more often than not permit the state to set the agenda for them . |
| 17 | Amelia McLean also pointed out that skill was at stake : " fortunately , the majority of women workers can not see their way to join that union , as they claim to be skilled workers " . |
| 18 | Even if the consultants William Mercer Fraser are as good at business as they claim to be and the answer to everyone 's communications problems , the style is a guaranteed turn-off . |
| 19 | Are the British as bad and the French as good at sex as they claim to be ? |
| 20 | To discover whether Jews were as compassionate as they claimed to be he donned dark spectacles and stuck a notice to the rear window of his Buick : ‘ Careful ! |
| 21 | Microsoft may be on a limb when it claims to be working alone on connectivity and interoperability between NT and Unix SVR4 . |
| 22 | Having examined Christianity , he recognizes that if it is true ( as it claims to be and as the third level promises to show how it can be seen to be ) , it does provide the necessary answer . |
| 23 | The book is , as it claims to be , the first real survey of the period , other writers having extracted individual companies or artists from a dauntingly rich and complex panorama . |
| 24 | As it claimed to be the functioning government of Vietnam it was hardly surprising that US officers , particularly OSS , maintained fairly close contact with the Vietminh and perhaps there was a genuine basis for the American — Vietnamese Friendship Association ; and when the senior US officer , General Gallagher , was persuaded to sing at one of their meetings and , apparently , broadcast on Vietminh radio , this too was in itself a comparatively innocent exercise . |
| 25 | As he claims to be able to speak seventeen languages , it would seem to work . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , if Red Hand is as mad as he claims to be . ’ |
| 27 | That would make him 75 — though he claims to be ‘ only ’ 72 , saying he lied about his age years ago so he could join the army . |