Example sentences of "claim to have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilfrid is claimed to have baptised 250 slaves of both sexes at Selsey and there is the celebrated case of ‘ Angles ’ from Deira , an area approximating to the historic county of Yorkshire , being sold in the market-place of Rome c . |
| 2 | The product is also claimed to have enhanced diagnostic capabilities to manage enterprise-wide networks as well as an Integrated Boot Device , which uses Flash memory , a floppy drive for loading software upgrades and for data collection , and SNMP time-stamped event logging with a real time clock . |
| 3 | The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal . |
| 4 | Unlike some she could mention , she had never claimed to have stayed unmarried out of any particular principle . |
| 5 | The pesh merga also claimed to have captured 80,000 government troops . |
| 6 | Men also claimed to have had four times more sexual partners in their lives than women — 12.1 versus 3.2. — Reuter |
| 7 | Men also claimed to have had four times more sexual partners in their lives than women — 12.1 versus 3.2. — Reuter |
| 8 | Paddy Reilly , a friend of Lynch 's , once claimed to have had five ten-round fights in a week . |
| 9 | A report by the Public Prosecutor 's office in Lisbon , the Portuguese capital , had earlier claimed to have found sufficient grounds to accuse Melancia of involvement in corruption in connection with the building of the new airport in Macao . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I can hardly claim to have done that . ’ |
| 12 | Your Majesty can claim to have canvassed one vote for the National Government . ' |
| 13 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Indeed East Enders can claim to have invented two of the bestknown English styles of beer . |
| 16 | Insofar as I can claim to have had any original scientific ideas , these have sometimes been misunderstandings , or misreadings , of other peoples ' ideas . |
| 17 | Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow . |
| 18 | Knott claimed to have taken the mineral rights of " all the Isle of Man " , and claimed to have discovered some promising lodes there . |
| 19 | Shaw claimed to have lost all her midwifery earnings in the explosion , and a total of over £3,000 . |
| 20 | The farmers threatened to sue IBM and one , Jack Briscoe , whose farm was only a few hundred yards from the mine entrance , claimed to have lost 40 animals in the past ten years from toxic lead fallout from the mine 's operations . |
| 21 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 22 | Security forces claimed to have killed 13 " terrorists " next day . |
| 23 | The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) claimed to have killed six Israeli soldiers in an ambush in Israel 's self-declared security zone in southern Lebanon on Jan. 26 . |
| 24 | On Sept. 18 security forces claimed to have killed 70 guerrillas as they staged an abortive attack on a police garrison to free prisoners held in the El Sepa prison colony situated in Loreto department in the north-east Amazonian region . |
| 25 | The EPLF claimed to have killed 6,500 government troops in repelling an offensive launched on April 19 on the Ginda front north-east of Asmara . |
| 26 | In the Vavuniya area the government forces claimed to have killed 250 LTTE fighters for the loss of 35 soldiers in operations on May 2-13 , after which the curfew in the area was declared lifted . |
| 27 | On the same day the Sri Lankan army claimed to have killed 50 guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , bringing to over 600 the total number of those killed in the latest military offensive under way since mid-March in the north around Mullaittivu and Mannar . |
| 28 | Hezbollah claimed to have killed some members of a joint Israeli-SLA patrol in a bomb attack in the " security zone " on Jan. 17 . |
| 29 | He was apprenticed about 1602 to the London engraver and instrument-maker Charles Whitwell , with whom he claimed to have served nine years by the time of Whitwell 's death in 1611 . |
| 30 | Results showed that the President obtained slightly less than 82 per cent of the vote ( in 1985 he claimed to have received 100 per cent — p. 33963 ) , with his strongest constituency in rural areas . |