Example sentences of "claim to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if he were memorizing her life so he could sail to New York , adopt a different accent , and claim to be a long lost relative due a piece of her fortune which had n't been considerable and might all be gone now . |
| 2 | Stavrogin ca n't , and in our definitive text does n't , claim to be a decent man or to have any other thing to be ; all his letter indicates is a deathlike mime or sleepwalk within behaviour patterns determined by upbringing , class , and kind . |
| 3 | Although all ICI 's board members have endorsed the reorganisation ( which they all claim to be a radical one ) , it seems that both Mr Hampel and Mr Hutchison initially favoured a different course for ICI . |
| 4 | But to say that I have had an experience of God , whom I claim to be a transcendent being outside myself , can not be self-authenticating . |
| 5 | But druggies usually claim to be a liberal bunch , intelligent enough to value breaking the law in moderation . |
| 6 | Linda Lamont , director of the Patients ' Association , added : ‘ Anybody can put up a brass plate and claim to be a doctor in the private sector . |
| 7 | Ion deposition has never laid claim to be a quality method but for high volume work it 's the way to go as it is a virtually indestructible technology . |
| 8 | However , case management , although yet another concept ready for misinterpretation , projection , and even linguistic and semantic engineering , is a key component in the delivery of health and social care to priority client groups , and can , on the basis of research evidence in the USA , UK , and Australia , justifiably claim to be a better , more effective way of delivering services to long-term care groups ( including emotionally disturbed children ; see below ) . |
| 9 | This was printed privately in a limited edition of 250 copies , and in its preface the author expressed his gratitude to his father and to his eldest brother , Charles William Boase [ q.v. ] , ‘ for their great kindness in conjointly defraying the cost of printing this work which I claim to be an important contribution to the English biography of the nineteenth century ’ . |