Example sentences of "claim to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask for this claim to be investigated , and find out whether anyone has been found responsible and brought to justice . |
| 2 | The gangs exist as intimations of a power which cancels Ahmed 's claim to be a revolutionary leader . |
| 3 | Many poems contain a critique of poetry , just as many contain a critique of the self-portrayed poet , and of his intention to serve a social or doctrinal system , or of his claim to be a special case . |
| 4 | Neuroscience , which depends upon a materialist CTP for the explanatory force of its explanations of the mind , can not , therefore , sustain any claim to be explaining or advancing our understanding of the basis of perception , or of the mind . |
| 5 | Stephen Heath has some claim to be the only begetter of the English version of la nouvelle critique . |
| 6 | ‘ Privatisation of electricity and water also puts a hole straight through the Government 's claim to be guardians of the environment . |
| 7 | In fact , as Coetzee demonstrates , the personnel of the TRL , the NL , and the ASU were predominantly Conservative , and in this respect their claim to be ‘ non-party ’ was always weak . |
| 8 | However , no Pakistani official ever talks about the apparent hypocrisy of the government 's claim to be fighting narcotics when it refuses to change the special status of these tribal areas . |
| 9 | Here is this man , never previously seen doing his public duty , always seen merely roaring at the Labour Party or being interviewed like any tuppeny-ha'penny minister , now occupying the despatch-box which is the only site that gives credibility to his claim to be a prime-minister-in-waiting . |
| 10 | The job is to purge the good-riddance-to-Quebec attitude among Reform Party supporters , and to get backing in the western provinces for a further set of constitutional changes , incorporating Quebec 's insistent claim to be recognised as a distinct society . |
| 11 | They contrast this angrily with their Communist-dominated government 's proud claim to be the only republic still handing over its budget dues to Moscow . |
| 12 | Forget all preconceptions of a wise-cracking booby whose lifestyle resembles a cross between Hugh Hefner and Ghostbusters — here is the first Bond book ( no sequel was planned ) that supports with expert plotting , deft characterization and breathtaking cruelty Fleming 's claim to be a major exponent of the spy novel genre . |
| 13 | Your claim to be the first publication to print dog obituaries made me wonder how many other readers remember the Tail-wagger magazine , which had a regular In Memoriam column . |
| 14 | It is certainly the case that , a deviant fringe aside , the core of Catholicism maintains the claim to be the only true church , insists that church unity must mean unity with Rome on its terms , and , in such practices as insisting that the children of mixed marriages be raised as Catholics , continues to behave in an ‘ intolerant ’ fashion . |
| 15 | It has a claim to be considered the first court school of the Middle Ages . |
| 16 | Labour yesterday put on the biggest gathering of the glitterati in the election campaign so far to underline its claim to be the party most famous people will vote for . |
| 17 | Two of the best pieces here are Emeric Pressburger 's entrancing memoir of his Berlin hobo days in the 1920s , and the cinematographer Nestor Almendros 's insights into what a woman needs to become a screen goddess ; neither helps justify the book 's claim to be about what is happening in movies now . |
| 18 | One recurring kind of reason against accepting the authority of one person or institution is that there is another person or institution with a better claim to be recognized as an authority . |
| 19 | He miscalculated badly , forgetting the Tsar 's pride , which made him unyielding in his claim to be protector of the Greek Christians , and the reaction of the Sultan , who was weary of being pressured by the Powers and who feared for the security of his Empire . |
| 20 | THE discovery of a simple lead fishing weight sheds doubt on Captain Cook 's claim to be the first European to set foot on the shores of Terra Australis . |
| 21 | For instance , it is possible to contend that the nouveau roman may be more accurately described as modernist or late modernist when compared with the apparently more subversive avant-garde experimentalism of the Tel Quel group , whose claim to be the natural successors of the revolution inaugurated by Finnegans Wake would be difficult to refute . |
| 22 | Effectively , García Márquez is here waiving any claim to be ‘ telling it the way it is ’ , for the new novelists no longer share traditional realist fiction 's confident assumption of man 's ability to understand and describe the world . |
| 23 | It was the appearance of the railway station in the non-European world which staked its claim to be not only the distinctive architectural form of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , but also the first which was genuinely world-wide . |
| 24 | Resorts : French speaking Verbier can lay a justifiable claim to be the best skiing in Europe — and to attract the most gung-ho British visitors ; all addicts must visit Zermatt , Grindelwald /Wengen/Murren and Davos/Klosters at one time or another ; Andermatt is an off-piste paradise ; Engelberg is recommended for intermediates , as is Champery , a pretty village with good access to the huge Portes du Soleil circuit : beginners do not need to go to Switzerland , but Saas Fee is a good place to learn if you must . |
| 25 | In other words , two forces operate to raise the problems to be discussed : first , the natural desire to avoid awkward , embarrassing , or unmanageable social situations , situations which challenge the perception of the new role ; and second , the almost perverse and in a way contradictory claim to be accepted totally and without reservation . |
| 26 | A squat square chimney at Stone Edge , north-west of the village , marks the site of a lead-smelting mill established in the eighteenth century , and entertains a dubious claim to be the earliest industrial chimney in England . |
| 27 | First , as you discovered in exercise 10.1 , while the wealthier members of any society claim to be more happy than poorer members of that society , the cross-cultural association between the average amount of wealth in a country and the proportion who claim to be happy is extremely weak . |
| 28 | The plans would become the absolute copyright of the Government , to choose from the several plans the whole or such parts as might be found desirable ; but the architects would not have the slightest claim to be employed in the execution of the works . |
| 29 | He challenges the notion that local government is anything more than local administration , whose claim to be government is merely another reflection of the high self-regard in which officials hold themselves rather than any expression of locally based decision-making . |
| 30 | Their only claim to be local is that they are implemented in a restricted geographical area — but then so are certain aspects of defence and foreign policy ! |