Example sentences of "[prep] claiming to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 2 | The latest versions of SideKick offer the choice of tone ( useless unless you have a touch-tone system ) or pulse ( which works fine ) but Spotlight , despite claiming to be a UK version resisted all my efforts . |
| 3 | They were accusing him of claiming to be God . |
| 4 | Polarisation means there will be an end to the practice of claiming to be an independent financial intermediary when in fact 80–90 per cent of a firms policies are set up with a parent organisation . |
| 5 | It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility . |
| 6 | In claiming to be ‘ self=begot ’ he is claiming isolation , a refusal to see anything outside his own existence and an unreality which leads to blindness . |
| 7 | It can not side-step this challenge by claiming to be neutral and value-free because of its appeal to the technology of literacy . |
| 8 | This " " fabliaus " " ends by claiming to be an example of the innate deceptiveness of woman : ( Woman is made to deceive : lying she turns into truth and truth she turns into lying . ) |