Example sentences of "claimed to [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | In modem times , many people have claimed to be able to see fairies . |
| 2 | I say ‘ perhaps ’ because rhesus monkeys have recently been claimed to be able to make cross-modal associations . |
| 3 | Paragram is claimed to be able to generate an executable representation of the application when the application definition is complete . |
| 4 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 5 | And now the rains had really come , so heavy and persistent that even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene . |