Example sentences of "he claims have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since Prost confirmed his intention to leave McLaren , he claims to have been increasingly isolated within the team . |
| 2 | Yet he claims to have been a late developer in many respects , a dreamy boy who grew up absorbed in cricket and poetry , still unaware , at Oxford in 1939 , of anti-Semitism in Germany . |
| 3 | When the dust settled yesterday Michael Knighton , a thwarted professional footballer who has been elected to the Manchester United board , spoke bitterly of the vilification he claims to have endured since moving in on the club and Martin Edwards , the chief executive . |
| 4 | Married to Princess Olga Romanoff , a great niece of the last Czar , he claims to have survived three attempts on his life . |
| 5 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |
| 6 | All he claims to have demonstrated is the necessity for some absolute sovereign power or other ; according to his theory , this could as easily be a democracy or an aristocracy as a monarchy . |
| 7 | He bought them ‘ for a song ’ but , although he claims to have had dozens of offers , Judelson says none would even cover his shipping expenses . |
| 8 | He claims to have been paddling for 26 years , not bad for a 32 year old . |
| 9 | So when he claims to have had glimpses of absolute Truth , it may be reasonable to assume , not that he has caught a glimpse of some kind of hypostasized Ultimate or extra-mundane entity , but rather that through his participation in a particular form of life he is made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain religious and ethical criteria and is informed by the spirit of what might be called dharma ( law ) , or ta ( moral law ) , or tao ( way ) but which he prefers to call Truth ( Satya ) or God . |
| 10 | As we have seen , he claims to have had glimpses only of absolute Truth and we have interpreted this to mean that he is often made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain ethical and religious principles and to travel in a certain spirit . |
| 11 | He claims to have been drunk throughout most of his killing days : every line on Eastwood 's face and his stiff-in-the-saddle old man 's posture conveys how much each of Munny 's killings have chipped away at his heart and mind , leaving him the reformed shell we first see covered in pig-shit . |
| 12 | He claims to have several houses — in Switzerland , London , Rome and a rented apartment in New York . |
| 13 | Though he claims to have had no inside knowledge , he may yet be forced out of his job — and the government forced to speed up planned legislation . |
| 14 | In particular , the subjectivist 's charge that the defence doctrine leads to the harsh objectivism of the reasonable man as a standard can be refuted by treating the reasonableness requirement as not being a second and subsequent question which must be answered in the affirmative in order to secure an acquittal , but as an integral part of the first question : Did the accused hold the belief he claims to have held ? |
| 15 | He claims to have sold packs without any advertising . |
| 16 | He claims to have absolutely no inkling of what will happen on his next page , or what will happen at the end of a novel . |
| 17 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 18 | He claims to have worked for three of Britain 's leading racing teams in the 1970 ‘ s , including that of Graham Hill , perhaps Britain 's greatest-ever driver . |
| 19 | He claims to have been keeping fish for more than ninety years — and in some cases as little as ninety minutes . |
| 20 | What are the full powers he claims to have ? |
| 21 | He claims to have found employment for himself . ’ |
| 22 | The man , wearing just sunglasses to disguise himself , is reaching into a plastic bag where he claims to have a gun and a grenade . |
| 23 | He claims to have played a vital role in the final stages of negotiations to bring the long-awaited community hospital to East Cleveland and he has an active interest in cleaning up local beaches . |
| 24 | Now he claims to have abandoned this principle , apparently for no other reason than the pursuit of electoral palatability . |
| 25 | Do n't believe everything he says , mind , but he claims to have lived in the same house all his life . |
| 26 | Erm keeps giving little bits erm It was when he was a child apparently , he claims to have been aware of it , you know ? |
| 27 | Over the past few years , Dr Anthony Hall , an expert in tropical medicine , has compiled a dossier of patients who he claims have entered Britain ‘ pretending to be tourists , students or refugees ’ but who are in reality coming for free medical care . |
| 28 | Still wearing his lucky white flannel suit and green socks — the outfit he claims has saved his life countless times . |