Example sentences of "[unc] claim [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in 1296 he consulted his council of magnates who advised him that a certain papal provision would prejudice the crown ; and in 1299 he contested the pope 's claim to sovereignty over Scotland as a threat to the dignity of his crown . |
| 2 | However , he confirmed that Argentina 's claim to sovereignty over the Falklands , set to one side during the negotiations , would continue to be pursued in international forums . |
| 3 | Throughout the remainder of the 1530s , royal propagandists were systematically employed to justify and publicize Henry 's claim to supremacy over the English church . |
| 4 | It concerned Canterbury 's claim to primacy over the whole of the British Isles . |
| 5 | The question which remains to be solved is : were these phrases added to existing documents in 1070–72 to support Lanfranc 's claim to primacy over the whole area of the British Isles , or were they added as a last resort in 1120 , when the claim which Lanfranc , Anselm and Archbishop Ralph had all supported was facing final and irrevocable defeat ? |
| 6 | The GSLP , which was traditionally strongly opposed to Spain 's claim of sovereignty over the territory , had campaigned on a platform calling for greater autonomy from the United Kingdom , particularly in the economic sphere . |
| 7 | Structuralist linguists retaliate to the generative linguist 's claim for competence over performance with the argument ‘ An automatic language-processing system which works adequately for competent language but fails on performance is a futile system , because all there is to be processed is performance . ’ |