Example sentences of "claim to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was as if he were memorizing her life so he could sail to New York , adopt a different accent , and claim to be a long lost relative due a piece of her fortune which had n't been considerable and might all be gone now . |
| 3 | Stavrogin ca n't , and in our definitive text does n't , claim to be a decent man or to have any other thing to be ; all his letter indicates is a deathlike mime or sleepwalk within behaviour patterns determined by upbringing , class , and kind . |
| 4 | To be sure of punctuality , firms should employ more people in the over-55 age group , in which three-quarters of businessmen claim to be early almost every day . |
| 5 | In attempting to influence political developments in Poland , the West was reduced to using precisely those instruments that the Bonn government ( and Social Democratic opposition ) is now belatedly attempting to apply to the GDR : first , a symbolic politics recognising the Church and opposition as partners no less important than the communist authorities who claim to be , but are not , identical with ‘ the state ’ and , second , the conditional offer of economic help ( politely called ‘ co-operation ’ ) as a goad to political change — neither pure ‘ carrot ’ nor simple ‘ stick ’ , but a carrot-cum-stick . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ By murdering 11 men and injuring many others these people have polluted yet more the very cause which they claim to be serving . |
| 8 | Mr Klaus and his supporters claim to be the ‘ real ’ liberals , with their hard-headed free-market philosophy . |
| 9 | Although all ICI 's board members have endorsed the reorganisation ( which they all claim to be a radical one ) , it seems that both Mr Hampel and Mr Hutchison initially favoured a different course for ICI . |
| 10 | They give time and money to their faith and such giving often shames those of us who claim to be orthodox believers . |
| 11 | The British — even those who claim to be attached to the virtues of the enterprise culture — are too addicted to the class system and the honours baubles to give them up . |
| 12 | In an age when politicians , journalists , estate agents and even advertising executives claim to be ‘ professionals ’ , it is easy to forget that the description once carried with it a certain cachet . |
| 13 | The alternative is to try to hang on , for as long as we can , to a form of athletic competition in which the participants at least claim to be just the same as the rest of us , only better-built by nature . |
| 14 | ‘ Sometimes you come across patients you feel have been coached on what to say , or who just claim to be residents . |
| 15 | But to say that I have had an experience of God , whom I claim to be a transcendent being outside myself , can not be self-authenticating . |
| 16 | Many of the parents who object to their child 's attending a school at which a place has been allocated by the LEA claim to be opposed simply on religious or educational grounds . |
| 17 | The long struggle of the provinces against the most powerful ruler in Europe has perhaps the best claim to be the first war of national liberation . |
| 18 | Anyhow you claim to be in trouble already , but you do n't talk to me , I have to ring up . |
| 19 | These claim to be able to clean and disinfect in one process known as sanitisation ( BS 5283 : 1976 ) . |
| 20 | They often claim to be working for the council and sometimes have ‘ road maintenance ’ painted on the side of their lorries . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The result is quite striking : the richer respondents claim to be more prepared to break the law than the poorer ones , despite their apparent lesser chances of actually breaking it from the conviction statistics . |
| 23 | Even more frequently there are people who claim to be introverted , ( in other words they think and feel as an introvert ) but who nonetheless over-compensate and behave in extraverted ways . |
| 24 | JAPANESE engineers claim to be on the verge of building the world 's most efficient Stirling , or heat ’ exchange , engine . |
| 25 | It is this , sometimes tenuous connection , coupled with the vaguely but certainly felt need for a ‘ god ’ that makes people reluctant to break away entirely , and claim to be completely atheist . |
| 26 | It is almost impossible to pick holes in the Essex claim to be the best county side especially for three and four-day cricket . |
| 27 | But druggies usually claim to be a liberal bunch , intelligent enough to value breaking the law in moderation . |
| 28 | All claim to be compatible with their traditional relations . |
| 29 | Around a half of all people claim to be bothered by noise , a third by dirt , a half by fumes and a quarter by vibration . |
| 30 | Lahaina claim that some salt mixes which claim to be nitrate/phosphate free are not . |