Example sentences of "[pos pn] claims to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously . |
| 2 | Even though Rome was giving little in return in terms of moderating its claims to be the only true Christian church , faint liberal breezes had been blowing through the Vatican since the second Vatican Council . |
| 3 | It is as if the loch has filled up with many different monsters , each in turn requiring consideration of its claims to be Nessie . |
| 4 | In tracing how the study of English literature took on its claims to be a moralizing influence , Gauri Viswanathan contributes to a history of the subtle stratagems of colonial administration and their contemporary legacy . |
| 5 | In Blackpool — still stating its claims to be the biggest and the best in the 1980s , and countering the continental drift with slogans like ‘ Costa Notta Lotta ’ — there was a seven-fold rise in the number of private hotels between 1924 and 1938 . |
| 6 | If it does not , all its claims to be the guardian of the citizen and service user fall to nothing . |
| 7 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 8 | If he can make headway towards restoring a balanced budget , then his claims to be the Right 's principal contender for the leadership in the 21st century will be considerably enhanced . |
| 9 | A recent biographer questions his claims to be described as ‘ saintly ’ . |
| 10 | Any patient seeing this man would have to check his claims to be a doctor themselves . |
| 11 | His experiments with printmaking included aquatint , for which his claims to be the inventor are strong : he certainly published , in 1771 , the first aquatint in England after a painting by his friend John Hamilton Mortimer [ q.v. ] , and , ever short of money and frequently in debt , sold the process to Paul Sandby [ q.v. ] , to whom it is usually credited , for £40 . |
| 12 | And last October it was announced that his claims to be innocent would be heard once again by the Court of Appeal . |