Example sentences of "'s claim to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Institute of Public Relations , he wagers , has yet to acknowledge Paul Joseph Goebbels 's claim to being the first ‘ fully-fledged image-maker ’ . |
| 2 | The gangs exist as intimations of a power which cancels Ahmed 's claim to be a revolutionary leader . |
| 3 | ‘ Privatisation of electricity and water also puts a hole straight through the Government 's claim to be guardians of the environment . |
| 4 | However , no Pakistani official ever talks about the apparent hypocrisy of the government 's claim to be fighting narcotics when it refuses to change the special status of these tribal areas . |
| 5 | Forget all preconceptions of a wise-cracking booby whose lifestyle resembles a cross between Hugh Hefner and Ghostbusters — here is the first Bond book ( no sequel was planned ) that supports with expert plotting , deft characterization and breathtaking cruelty Fleming 's claim to be a major exponent of the spy novel genre . |
| 6 | Two of the best pieces here are Emeric Pressburger 's entrancing memoir of his Berlin hobo days in the 1920s , and the cinematographer Nestor Almendros 's insights into what a woman needs to become a screen goddess ; neither helps justify the book 's claim to be about what is happening in movies now . |
| 7 | THE discovery of a simple lead fishing weight sheds doubt on Captain Cook 's claim to be the first European to set foot on the shores of Terra Australis . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Mr Jagger has been attempting to put the record straight about his musical colleague , Mr William Wyman , the bass ( sic ) player , who recently declared that the belipped chanteur was ‘ an egomaniac ’ and then went on to dispute Mr Jagger 's claim to be the author of the seminal lied , ‘ Jumping Jack Flash ’ . |
| 9 | But it went further than that : Ceauşescu was anxious to assert Romania 's claim to be among the leaders of the underdeveloped countries . |
| 10 | Charles 's claim to be a martyr must largely depend on what ensued in the period of two and a half years between the end of the First Civil War and his execution . |
| 11 | Wimbledon 's 20-goals-a-season striker will today witness Shearer 's claim to be part of Graham Taylor 's 1994 World Cup squad when Blackburn face the Dons at Selhurst Park . |
| 12 | It is true that this formulation of treating a person as an equal is consistent with the traditional liberal conception of equality , amounting to the familiar idea of equality of opportunity , and even this restricted concept of equality appears capable of generating a competing individual right which is strong enough to defeat the welfare-tax protester 's claim to be allowed to divert some of his tax into non-welfare spending schemes . |
| 13 | Worse , the end of communism removed Greece 's claim to be of special interest to the democracies of the West . |
| 14 | The arrests were only marginally less disconcerting for the chief negotiator for the African National Congress , Cyril Ramaphosa : the swoop , coming in the middle of the talks , strengthened the PAC 's claim to be more vigorous than the ANC in opposing apartheid . |
| 15 | Part of Nicaragua 's claim to be a ‘ freer ’ society lies in its treatment of offenders . |
| 16 | On the face of it , Louis VI 's claim to be lord of all bishops not already under effective protection looks a modest attempt to regain only part of the Carolingian inheritance . |
| 17 | These , it was argued , had exploded the state 's claim to be able to protect its population . |
| 18 | The council thus had little choice but to accept Gloucester 's claim to be protector . |
| 19 | A problem that arises in the Timor Gap case is that , although the circumstances of Indonesia 's invasion of East Timor in December 1975 are well known , there has been no authoritative judicial determination of its illegality , or of the legitimacy of Portugal 's claim to be the continuing administering authority . |
| 20 | The point is that even though only two out of infinitely many positive integers fail to satisfy ( ii ) the existence of even one such " nasty " integer is sufficient to destroy ( ii ) 's claim to be a valid assertion . |
| 21 | Moreover , the emergence of countries pursuing rival paths to socialism — the relatively decentralized economy of Yugoslavia , the peasant-based movement in China , and the variety of socialist experiments in many of the newly-independent countries of Africa and Asia from the late 1950s and early 60s — stirred new criticism of Moscow 's claim to be the infallible source of the socialist creed . |
| 22 | Thus the central dogma of the constitution — that the sovereign nation could enact the constitution that suited it — could be derived alike from the premisses of the radicals or from the necessity of rebutting Joseph 's claim to be legal king of Spain as a result of the abdication of Bayonne : a transfer of the crown by Ferdinand alone was invalid por falta de consentimiento de la nación . |
| 23 | So , though Schumpeter 's claim to be able to predict the future course of capitalism is certainly ambitious and extremely controversial , the route by which he reaches his prediction is marked by rather more modest and specific conclusions . |
| 24 | The riots were unquestionably a blow to the government 's law and order policies and to the Conservative 's claim to be the party of law and order . |
| 25 | For there are those who determine their own shape , their own direction , and the mere existence of them demonstrates Kao Tzu 's claim to be a misrepresentation . ’ |
| 26 | Despite Herbert 's claim to be using the plain saying of direct felt expression and humility towards addressing the divine , he is also demonstrating his poetic standing . |
| 27 | The sheriff 's reply sounded clearly in the hushed corridor , impressing the assembled kids and seeming to confirm Grant 's claim to be part of an official police operation — if any needed convincing after seeing one of the feared Apostles being dragged unconscious into an empty cubicle . |
| 28 | The proposed Education Department budget of $26,600 million represented an increase of only $500 million ( 2 per cent , i.e. below inflation for the second successive year , despite Bush 's claim to be the " education President " ) . |
| 29 | This latter view was reinforced on May 22 when Xinhua ( the official New China News Agency ) criticized Lee 's " impossible preconditions " and reiterated Beijing 's claim to be " the sole legitimate government representing all Chinese people " . |
| 30 | On the other hand , American employers seldom challenge a plaintiff 's claim to be a disabled person . |