Example sentences of "what [pers pn] claim to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought that he had stopped his baiting of her , had accepted her , if not exactly for what she claimed to be , but as herself . |
| 2 | If you are what you claim to be , you 're nothing but a dusty relic from some medieval ghetto … ’ |
| 3 | It was the sort of place where you are accepted for what you claim to be , your worth depending on how much gold or silver you have in your purse . |
| 4 | The Moslems , supporters of the Democratic Action Party ( based in Bosnia-Hercegovina ) , were protesting at what they claimed to be repression of the rights of Moslems in the Sanjak and Serbian efforts to drive them out ( Sanjak Moslem militants had been agitating for autonomy and closer links with Bosnia-Hercegovina , where Moslems were the largest national group ) . |
| 5 | ( iv ) In the case of external objects the observations he makes may fall short of what he claims to be the case . |
| 6 | Managing director of International Software , Richard North , says that , while the Brentford , Middlesex company generates 70% of its revenues from reselling software and providing support services to approximately 4,500 customers — or what he claims to be 20% of the UK corporate market — it earns the remaining 30% from negotiating favourable licence deals with software vendors on behalf of large organisations . |
| 7 | He is quite brazenly staging a public spectacle — a spectacle for which he knew he would either have been stigmatised as an upstart and a blasphemer , or acknowledged as precisely what he claimed to be . |
| 8 | Nothing was what it claimed to be . |
| 9 | Garland supplies a range of gas and electric models , including what it claims to be the world 's largest selling fryer , the Master Jet MJ35 . |
| 10 | Is it really evidence of what it claims to be evidence of ? |
| 11 | Aachen-based Parsytec GmbH now has what it claims to be the world 's first high performance parallel desktop system , Xplorer , based on the Inmos Ltd T9000 Transputer . |
| 12 | Aachen-based Parsytec GmbH now has what it claims to be the world 's first high performance parallel desktop system , the Xplorer , based on the Inmos T9000 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Aachen-based Parsytec GmbH now has what it claims to be the world 's first high performance parallel desktop system , Xplorer , based on the Inmos T9000 . |
| 14 | Aachen-based Parsytec GmbH has what it claims to be the world 's first high performance parallel desktop system , the Xplorer , based on the Inmos T9000 . |
| 15 | A basic interest in questions about the meaning and purpose of life ( a ) to challenge secularist assumptions and to appreciate that religious truth-claims can not be easily dismissed ; ( b ) to understand what is distinctive about religion , that is , what it essentially concerns , and be able to distinguish between that and features of it which can vary and perhaps be dispensed with altogether ; ( c ) to realize in particular in how many different ways religion can masquerade as something else , and fail to be what it claims to be ; ( d ) to appreciate the highly controversial nature of religion and of almost everything that is said about it by anyone , whether religious or not ; ( e ) to have a firm grasp of criteria by which to evaluate precise examples and manifestations of religion in practice ; ( f ) to appreciate the force of the question-mark with regard to the ultimate divide between religion and non-religion , and to appreciate the reality of the dilemma , and the ways in which religion needs to be questioned for its failures , negative attitudes , hypocrisy and externalism . |