Example sentences of "[noun pl] purporting [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1883 a quantity of bottles purporting to be Champagne made by Deutz & Geldermann attracted attention in Munich . |
| 2 | It did not help that the ‘ Hitler Diaries ’ , the story of how a forger fooled British and German newspapers as well as reputable historians with amateurish fakes purporting to be the German leader 's handwritten diaries , was currently on television . |
| 3 | This year the flags we have seen flown as ensigns by yachts purporting to be British have been as imaginative and various as they have been illegal . |
| 4 | From the beginning of Chapter 1 onwards the majority of this book is taken up with assertions described as theorems ( or lemmas or corollaries ) followed by explanations purporting to be " proofs " . |
| 5 | In an undercover police operation in London a shop was set up purportedly to buy and sell jewellery commercially ; it was staffed solely by undercover officers purporting to be shady jewellers willing to buy stolen property . |
| 6 | If propositions purporting to be about fictional things are to be accepted as meaningful , then it is only on condition that they can be paraphrased into propositions about non-fictional things ; for example , into propositions about persons who are thinking , alleging , claiming , etc. something fictional . |
| 7 | On the other hand , groups purporting to be an authoritative mouthpiece may be disregarded because their membership covers only a fraction of , say , all old people . |
| 8 | If , however , the suspect piece turned out to be an aluminium bronze ( as was recently the case with some coins purporting to be Anglo-Saxon ) , then one could reject it straight away because aluminium , and thus aluminium bronze , was not known before the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Other examples are the Roman coinage under Vespasian ( see p. 15 ) , and particularly the many coins purporting to be English pennies of the tenth and eleventh centuries . |
| 10 | Their only conceptual connection was that someone ( often a foreign observer ) had produced numbers about one phenomenon that could be correlated with numbers from other societies purporting to be about the same phenomenon . |
| 11 | ‘ He would enter their premises purporting to be the representative of a large company which sold cigarettes or alcohol at discounted prices . |