Example sentences of "claim [to-vb] [be] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |
| 2 | He can honestly claim to have been a righteous servant of God ; in verse 16 he writes of his service being like that of a priest , who bridges the gap between God and man , and who presents a sacrifice to God as part of the priest 's duties and privileges . |
| 3 | To that extent , he can claim to have been an innocent traveller . |
| 4 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 5 | Yet he claims to have been a late developer in many respects , a dreamy boy who grew up absorbed in cricket and poetry , still unaware , at Oxford in 1939 , of anti-Semitism in Germany . |