Example sentences of "be claiming [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , they 're accusing him to be claiming to be God and they actually say they actually say their decision is that he 's guilty and should be put to death , they 've condemned him to death . |
| 2 | Erm the the Kuomintang , make no mistake about it , were committed to a national revolution erm an and therefore they were revolutionary , they were , they were claiming to be as revolutionary as the communists . |
| 3 | The use of the title ‘ Son of Man ’ does not lead naturally to the thought that Jesus is claiming to be Son of God . ) |
| 4 | SYLVESTER Stallone , above , has warned that an imposter is claiming to be his brother in a bid to get parts in films . |
| 5 | If empiricism is claiming to be the study of the observable and explicable , then it is no more than behaviourism returned , vampire-like , to seek new life in the fear-ridden haunted village of modern academia . |
| 6 | Preobrazhensky was claiming to be an orthodox Marxist , and indeed claimed that his opponents were vulgarisers , but he was attempting to apply the method of historical materialism in an un- historical manner . |
| 7 | Jesus was claiming to be the Messiah . |