Example sentences of "claim to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ISAAC ASIMOV , who has died in New York aged 72 , was best known for his works of science fiction , a genre in which he reigned supreme , but he could also claim to have written more books about more subjects than any other author . |
| 2 | ‘ I can hardly claim to have done that . ’ |
| 3 | He himself did not claim to have originated many of his improvements , but his work is notable for the way in which many details of care and technique were combined to produce a dramatically improved outcome , and for the rigour with which he analysed his work . |
| 4 | Insofar as I can claim to have had any original scientific ideas , these have sometimes been misunderstandings , or misreadings , of other peoples ' ideas . |
| 5 | Knott claimed to have taken the mineral rights of " all the Isle of Man " , and claimed to have discovered some promising lodes there . |
| 6 | Shaw claimed to have lost all her midwifery earnings in the explosion , and a total of over £3,000 . |
| 7 | Hezbollah claimed to have killed some members of a joint Israeli-SLA patrol in a bomb attack in the " security zone " on Jan. 17 . |
| 8 | Clark claimed to have seen little damage to military targets but maintained that residential areas and hospitals and other civilian facilities had been severely attacked , resulting in heavy civilian casualties . |
| 9 | In their continuing efforts to cut off supplies to government forces besieged in Berbera , the SNM claimed to have captured another cargo ship in the Red Sea on Jan. 15 . |
| 10 | Less than a quarter claimed to have read all of it or to remember the topics it dealt with . |
| 11 | Harrell claimed to have used much of the money to assist the poor , thereby acquiring the nickname " Robin HUD " [ see also p. 37405 ] . |
| 12 | If your psychoanalysis is reports , and not just the actions , of it can be a , used as arguments to er , allow this story to emphasise what the human ages evolved at specific suicide of men , erm , goes on to show examples of his erm , he actually claimed to have used this as a sort of process of identification of even fantasizing , in order to try and er demonstrate how er , I think it was Hadrian 's Wall was built , try to identify with engineers and architects who built Hadrian 's Wall , in order to try and work out what the actual function of the wall was . |
| 13 | While the US claimed to have overrun all principal military installations , North American control of this tiny country of 2.4 million people was clearly not complete . |
| 14 | For those who claimed to have had this experience , the exemplary manner in which they met their death was the ultimate proof they were indeed saved . |
| 15 | In Sudan , by contrast , forecasters claim to have visited all areas badly affected by 1990 's drought . |
| 16 | I claim to have seen this conflict at closer range than anyone . |
| 17 | RCA in America claim to have spent half a million dollars promoting my last album but it was obviously money spent in stupid ways . |
| 18 | Using this model Hackman and Oldham claim to have had some success in redesigning jobs to give the outcomes they predict . |
| 19 | Recent researchers , such as H.L. Miles ( 1983 ) , claim to have had more luck but even then , giving them the benefit of every doubt , ‘ there remains a large gap between the signing of these trained apes and the speech of children who have vocabularies of approximately the same size ’ ( Griffin 1984 : 199 ) . |
| 20 | Many claim to have had these near death ; floating near the ceiling while looking down at their dying ( or clinically dead ) physical frames . |
| 21 | A person claiming to have dispossessed another must similarly fulfil both these requirements . |
| 22 | They achieved a figure of 68 per cent of the children claiming to have seen these films . |
| 23 | Lit also claims to have won another four per cent stake in the station from private company , Spectrum Radio Investments . |
| 24 | Unisys Corp claims to have won some 50% of the world 's open systems transaction processing business , but still only has around 22 Tuxedo customers on its books , including the Union Bank of Switzerland , Eurodollar car rental , La Namur Assurance Co in Belgium and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV ; NCR Corp , it estimates , has some 10 to 15 customers for Top End monitor , while Transarc Corp 's rival Encina has only just started shipping . |
| 25 | The unit is hiring extra staff that will boost its roll call from 130 to 150 all told : it already claims to have poached several engineers from Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp research labs out in Grenoble . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Budapest-based Graphisoft , the privately-held Hungarian software outfit which claims to have sold more CAD packages on Apple Computer Inc Macintosh platforms than any other firm during 1991 , is thought to be readying Apple A/UX 3.0 and Microsoft Corp Windows versions of its ArchiCAD software for release in around six months time . |
| 27 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — though Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 28 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — when Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 29 | The company claims to have solved many of the problems of poor reception suffered by mobile phone users . |
| 30 | Adobe claims to have solved this problem with a Postscript-based file format called the Portable Document Format ( PDF ) . |