Example sentences of "claim to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that he has claimed to have absorbed the banned substance through eating meat but one observer claimed cryptically yesterday : ‘ He would have to eat three cows a day for that to be the case . ’ |
| 2 | Wilfrid is claimed to have baptised 250 slaves of both sexes at Selsey and there is the celebrated case of ‘ Angles ’ from Deira , an area approximating to the historic county of Yorkshire , being sold in the market-place of Rome c . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never claimed to be a punk rocker , I 've just claimed to have liked punk rock music . |
| 4 | Dick Turpin is claimed to have stopped here and according to Nevinson , Queen Elizabeth dined at the Whitefriars in 1565 , after which it fell to the ground . |
| 5 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 6 | Smallpox mortality is claimed to have fallen correspondingly ( Razzell 1977 ) , a view support by the Bills of Mortality in provincial towns . |
| 7 | Cornelius had noted that famous men and women generally claimed to have fallen into their famous careers through sheer chance . |
| 8 | Anthony even claimed to have discovered ‘ maps of Ireland ’ on the sheets when he stuffed them into the machine in the local Launderette . |
| 9 | During the 1970s , the British National Front denied that it was a fascist party , and its former leader , John Tyndall , always publicly claimed to have broken away from his antisemitic and Nazi political past . |
| 10 | My dad always claimed to have gone to public school , but he was never precise about which one . |
| 11 | The product is also claimed to have enhanced diagnostic capabilities to manage enterprise-wide networks as well as an Integrated Boot Device , which uses Flash memory , a floppy drive for loading software upgrades and for data collection , and SNMP time-stamped event logging with a real time clock . |
| 12 | A report submitted by the eighth UN chemical weapons inspection team to the UN 's Special Commission on Iraqi Disarmament on May 4 confirmed that Iraq had unilaterally destroyed large numbers of chemical munitions , as it had claimed to have done . |
| 13 | The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry has claimed to have developed a method for breaking down large amounts of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) . |
| 14 | The nationalization of the banking system by President José López Portillo on Sept. 1 , 1982 [ see p. 32071 ] , was claimed to have precipitated the devaluation of the official currency , the peso , and to have contributed to high inflation and the flight of capital . |
| 15 | The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal . |
| 16 | One of Shaughnessy 's sources , with close links to Israeli intelligence , actually claimed to have heard the tapes of these telephone intercepts , and another , well-connected with the US intelligence community , confirmed not only that the Iranian Embassy 's calls had been monitored at that time but also the substance of the Lovejoy — Niknam conversations . |
| 17 | In the past Gates had claimed to have heard rumours of the operation only on Oct. 1 , 1986 , less than seven weeks before it became public . |
| 18 | Claimed to have jumped from a window . ’ |
| 19 | Partners leaving the five-man practice were claimed to have raided computer records and accounts and waged a campaign against Dr Williams , the senior partner , who is staying with the practice . |
| 20 | One medium even claimed to have made a plaster cast of a pair of ectoplasmic hands before they dissolved . |
| 21 | Key Sun employees in the areas of programming and signal processing are said to be moving to the new company , which is claimed to have made breakthroughs in security and ease of use . |
| 22 | Unlike some she could mention , she had never claimed to have stayed unmarried out of any particular principle . |
| 23 | Many also claimed to have seen a banana-shaped object in the sky , and a characteristic illuminated sign . ’ |
| 24 | The UK chemical industry has claimed to have improved performance on emissions and environmental spending . |
| 25 | The pesh merga also claimed to have captured 80,000 government troops . |
| 26 | Although we were unaware of the wartime centrifugal launcher proposals , we have never claimed to have invented the idea . |
| 27 | The other monks all claimed to have shared the same experience . |
| 28 | Paddy Reilly , a friend of Lynch 's , once claimed to have had five ten-round fights in a week . |
| 29 | Various people have claimed to have had the idea for the scene in Curtiz' Casablanca where the patriots drown a German song with ‘ La Marseillaise ’ , but here , four years earlier , good-guy ex-rebels drown out ‘ The Union Forever ’ with ‘ Dixie ’ in exactly the same way . |
| 30 | Men also claimed to have had four times more sexual partners in their lives than women — 12.1 versus 3.2. — Reuter |