Example sentences of "claim to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It features boat speed , which Burmarc claim to be accurate to of a knot , and a depth sounder measure up to 328ft ( 100m ) . |
| 2 | This is much less systematic than the others described above , and has little claim to be representative at all . |
| 3 | News media which claim to be non-partisan attempt to discover the ‘ middle ground ’ and to maintain a balance between the different sides in political arguments . |
| 4 | Some complaints against FIS members had been lodged by the FFS , but the FFS leader , Ait Ahmed , said on Dec. 29 that " following the failure of some trends which claim to be democratic and opposition , the FIS is emerging as a democratic pillar whose … influence at national level can not be doubted " . |
| 5 | All claim to be compatible with their traditional relations . |
| 6 | All claim to be compatible with their traditional relations . |
| 7 | It is important to note here than even if a parent is gripped by those negative fantasies that the textbooks claim to be real and universal , she is also immediately capable of embracing a critique of the values she is confronted with . |
| 8 | Does he also agree that , although the violence of the provisional IRA and others who claim with no legitimacy to speak for the Irish people as a whole , is sickening , it is equally disgusting , disgraceful and sickening to see those who claim to be loyal to the Unionist cause killing , tit for tat , for no reason other than that people happen to be Catholic ? |
| 9 | Amelia McLean also pointed out that skill was at stake : " fortunately , the majority of women workers can not see their way to join that union , as they claim to be skilled workers " . |
| 10 | ( As a sideline , these claim to be effective in attacking blanketweed , too . ) |
| 11 | Many moisturisers as well as cosmetics now claim to be non-comedogenic . |
| 12 | In this sense they claim to be concerned with the interests of all their constituents , and not just those who voted for them . |
| 13 | It clearly distorts the English concept of law if one says that they have , but there are scores of anthropological monographs which claim to be concerned with systems of " primitive " law . |
| 14 | ‘ Sinn Fein councillors claim to be concerned about council spending , but in fact bomb attacks carried out by their IRA associates against council property are a major burden on Belfast ratepayers , ’ he said . |
| 15 | c Even disposable nappies/diapers which claim to be biodegradable are in practice virtually indestructible . |
| 16 | There are some people who claim to be able to control an axe kick to the top of the opponent 's head , but I have never seen this done effectively enough to score . |
| 17 | These claim to be able to clean and disinfect in one process known as sanitisation ( BS 5283 : 1976 ) . |
| 18 | There are those who claim to be able to tell you psychically just who you were and what sort of life you had in a previous existence . |
| 19 | I claim to be able to theorise the relationship between some ‘ professional ’ jobs and social structure in a way that opens up new avenues for empirical research . |
| 20 | Magnitudes have been given to only one-tenth , because it is almost impossible for the naked-eye or binocular observer to distinguish differences of less than this ( though I agree that some people claim to be able to do so ; I certainly can not ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , put it this way , you claim to be able to derive information from internal visual images which you believe to directly correspond to the phenomenal world . ’ |
| 22 | We have , accordingly , a ‘ critical thinking ’ industry , with books and exercises intended to improve individuals ' critical thinking ; and other individuals who profess expertise in the field , and who claim to be able to teach it . |
| 23 | Jamaicans usually claim to be able to understand everything said in Standard English ; it comes as something of a shock to many of them to find that English people can by no means always understand them . |
| 24 | Well you claim to be able to . |
| 25 | None of these new titles claim to be feminist , rather they tend to address fears and desires hitherto ignored . |
| 26 | In surveys of this type , such as the General Household Survey and the EEC Labour Force Survey , about the same proportion of women as men claim to be unemployed . |
| 27 | That is , they claim to be meritocratic . |
| 28 | Spain claim to be entitled to a seeding at England 's expense because they finished seventh in the Mexico World Cup finals in 1986 , one place ahead of England . |
| 29 | Where one party enters into a contract as a consumer , or on the other contracting party 's written standard terms of business , so that s3 applies , the Act provides ( in s3(2) ) that " the other " ( ie the non-consumer , or the party on whose written standard terms the contract is made ) can not by reference to any contract term — ( a ) when himself in breach of contract , exclude or restrict any liability of his in respect of such breach ; or ( b ) claim to be entitled — ( i ) to render a contractual performance substantially different from that which was reasonably expected of him , or ( ii ) in respect of the whole or any part of his contractual obligation , to render no performance at all , except in so far as … the contract term satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |
| 30 | Section 3(2) provides that a person dealing with a consumer , or contracting on his/her own written standard terms : can not by reference to any contract term — ( a ) when himself in breach of contract , exclude or restrict any liability of his in respect of the breach ; or ( b ) claim to be entitled — ( i ) to render a contractual performance substantially different from that which was reasonably expected of him , or ( ii ) in respect of the whole or any part of his contractual obligation , to render no performance at all , except in so far as … the contract term satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |