Example sentences of "claim [to-vb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many also claimed to have seen a banana-shaped object in the sky , and a characteristic illuminated sign . ’ |
| 2 | If this occurs , the buyer can no longer claim to have suffered a total failure of consideration . |
| 3 | Unpredictably it is Cambridge that may claim to have played a major part in his developments . |
| 4 | Yet I perceive there is still some way to go before voluntary and statutory bodies can claim to have made a serious break-through in mobilising action . |
| 5 | The Committee concluded that the broadcasters could legitimately claim to have made a praiseworthy attempt to deliver the sort of programmes they had promised . |
| 6 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |
| 7 | I had known this lady for many years and could claim to have had a friendly relationship with her . |
| 8 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 9 | An eye-witness claimed to have seen a yellow Datsun in the area at the relevant time , and McWhirter was painstakingly investigating all of the local Datsun-owners . |
| 10 | Chadian forces had previously mounted an attack on a rebel base near Kutum , 200 km inside Sudan , on Oct. 16 , and on Nov. 13-14 they claimed to have destroyed a second base at Inosorro . |
| 11 | The Iraqi authorities claimed to have launched a major reconstruction campaign in early March . |
| 12 | On April 20 the armed forces claimed to have found a deserted LTTE concentration camp near Mullaittivu , and that the rebels routinely tortured those held in five such camps housing over 6,000 prisoners . |
| 13 | The authorities claimed to have smashed a multi-million dollar stock-rigging scheme on Wall Street when , on Jan. 23 , the Manhattan District Attorney ordered the arrest of 21 securities brokers on fraud and racketeering charges . |
| 14 | Maradona scored against England in 1986 , accused of handling the ball he claimed to have had a little help from high places ( see remote control and questionable decisions ) . |
| 15 | While the fears of some that deals had been done are not justified by our data , in at least one school senior staff claim to have received a Minor Project grant as a retrospective reward . |
| 16 | They claim to have discovered a close relationship between the rate of growth in Gross National Product and the type of college education favoured by Britain 's economic competitors , arguing that the nations that prosper most are those that prepare their students best for the " enterprise culture " of the late twentieth century . |
| 17 | Tandy , an American company , claim to have invented a recordable CD system . |
| 18 | Teachers who claim to have been highly involved also claim to have used a wider variety of methods and feel more competent to conduct the review , believing it to have been more of a whole-school effort , more thorough and more useful in producing proposals for change . |
| 19 | There are also those who claim to have identified a cyclical pattern to the way in which technical developments arise . |
| 20 | Duke , 41 , became a Republican in 1989 after claiming to have undergone a Christian conversion and rejected his racist views . |
| 21 | As the votes were counted it became clear that the contest was the closest federal election for 30 years , with both sides claiming to have won a narrow victory . |
| 22 | By 1879 , one exasperated commentator remarked : ‘ M A. Guyard claims to have discovered a new metal of the platinum group which he names uralium , from the Ural mountains , whence the ore is procured . |
| 23 | Karimov claims to have discovered a direct correlation between nuclear tests conducted at the Soviet testing site of Semipalatinsk over the years and earthquakes throughout the former Soviet Union . |
| 24 | There was a public enquiry recently , and I 've got the Inspector 's report here , and in his report he says the Council claims to have adopted a positive approach towards gipsy site provision , but in my judgement there is no tangible evidence whatsoever of this . |
| 25 | He claims to have played a vital role in the final stages of negotiations to bring the long-awaited community hospital to East Cleveland and he has an active interest in cleaning up local beaches . |
| 26 | China , the world 's third largest pesticide producer after the USA and USSR , claims to have developed a new crop spraying technique which reduces pollution and increases efficiency . |
| 27 | A small US company claims to have developed a low-energy lightbulb with a lifetime of up to 14 years . |
| 28 | As for multi-processing , Bull says it has recently woken up to the fact that it has a lead over most of its competitors — the Motorola-based DPX/2 line has supported symmetrical multi-processing with up to four processors for years , and now claims to have cornered a leading 20% share of the symmetrical multi-processing market . |
| 29 | In a recent essay she claims to have had a strong sense of déjá-vu upon first reading theories of post-structuralism and postmodernism , for though she had never been able to articulate them clearly in conceptual form , she had discovered many of the concepts these theories present through writing fiction ( 1991a:165 ) . |
| 30 | Pavel Mukhortov , the Russian reporter who claims to have had a close encounter with extra-terrestrials He ( Nelson Mandela ) was trying to explain to us how he feels about negotiations , how it was his feeling that in any country , even if there is war , there is time for negotiations . |