Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] not claiming that " in BNC.

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1 I am not claiming that the belief is wrong , but simply that we have no facts on which to judge the issue .
2 I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded .
3 I 'm not claiming that these are the ‘ best ’ ( whatever that can mean in terms of music ) solos I have ever heard , or even the best players — just the records that I 've kept on coming back to over the years .
4 We are not claiming that personal leadership is all important but rather that Mrs Thatcher 's personality and policies enabled her to take advantage of the constellation of events and ideas .
5 We are not claiming that an account is a verisimilitudinous description of the antecedents of action on each and every occasion .
6 We are not claiming that women on their own ( or feminists on their own ) have the truth , but rather that men on their own do not .
7 He is not claiming that representations have their causal significance only in some societies or in some epochs , but he is making a general assumption about psychological functioning and , thereby , about human nature .
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