Example sentences of "[be] to claim [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fourth bad approach is to claim that the law can not stop research or whatever is under discussion , so why try ? |
| 2 | One way in which variation of this kind is discounted is to claim that the scribe was Anglo-Norman , or that the spellings are Anglo-Norman and therefore not valid evidence for the history of English . |
| 3 | Yet the most common justification , or implicit justification , is to claim that the institution brings in money because foreigners love to watch its parades . |
| 4 | Later , Dunlop was to claim that the payment related to another transaction ; he said that by then he was sole owner of the animal and therefore not due to pay Kilpatrick a share of the fees . |
| 5 | One device which was tried was to claim that the appeal was only an appeal against one of the king-duke 's officers , not against the king-duke himself . |