Example sentences of "claimed to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prosecution 's only witness on the main charge that Beattie had convened and presided over a meeting of UDA officers to plan the murders was an anonymous Special Branch detective who claimed to be reporting evidence of a paid , anonymous informer . |
| 2 | Moreover , Bukharin pointed out , whilst Preobrazhensky claimed to be dealing with abstract theory , he was in reality dealing with current economic policies . |
| 3 | However , Cannes club captain Luis Fernandez , who claimed to be speaking with the authority of the club 's board , said : ‘ We find it unacceptable that the disciplinary committee refused to accept our evidence and that Louis Niccolin should be judge and plaintiff at the same time . |
| 4 | In holding the elections the Kurdistan Front claimed to be implementing clauses of the 1970 agreement in which the Iraqi government had promised " autonomy " for the 3,500,000 population of the Kurdish-controlled region — an area of some 50,000 sq km . |
| 5 | The Palestinians claimed to be mining the road when we arrived ; Palestinian military preparedness was as thorough as usual . |
| 6 | If there is regret over the failure of Resolution 242 as a blueprint for peace , which had seemed so promising in 1967 , there are grounds for even greater regret that the 1949 ( IVth ) Geneva Convention has not been vigorously upheld by those who claimed to be seeking a basis for peace . |
| 7 | When she arrived in England in 1568 she claimed to be seeking the protection of her cousin Elizabeth , but at the same time began scheming for support in her claims to both thrones , having earlier told a priest that she ‘ trusted to find many friends when time did serve , especially among those of the old religion ’ . |
| 8 | However , the provision was concentrated mainly in Phase 1 schools , and in the later stages of PNP even these schools claimed to be encountering increased difficulty in sustaining their earlier staffing commitments in this area . |
| 9 | This is emphasised by the fact that the parent claimed to be asserting a ‘ right not to be dictated to ’ — at the expense of his/her child 's right to education . |
| 10 | Scotts claimed to be looking for a new franchiser to take over its hotels when the contract with Holiday Inn expires in July 1992 . |
| 11 | The king believed that although Lancaster and his followers claimed to be acting in the king 's name they would in fact create disorder and in any case ‘ it was not their duty to act as judge and do justice ’ . |
| 12 | By the end of the month it appeared that FAPLA , which claimed to be acting defensively , had breached the rebel UNITA defences and come close to capturing the airstrip near Mavinga , 19 km south of the Lomba river . |
| 13 | In his radio broadcast , Okar claimed to be acting on behalf of the " oppressed and enslaved people of the Middle Belt and the south " against the " dictatorial , corrupt , drug-baronish , inhumane , sadistic , deceitful , homosexually-centred , polygamistic and unpatriotic " Babangida government . |
| 14 | The Irish-American group claimed to be acting in a purely private capacity on its three-day trip , which included talks with Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Ulster Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew . |
| 15 | The company also claimed to be investing in the use of biotechnology to neutralise waste and plans to recycle CFCs and plastics [ ED no. 40 ] . |
| 16 | In recent weeks the cartel had used seven kidnapped journalists and a diplomat 's sister it claimed to be holding as bargaining counters to force the government into negotiations . |
| 17 | In the design and layout of the housing , the new villages like Blidworth , Harworth and Ollerton bore the imprint of the ideas about planned communities ( such as garden villages ) extant at the time , and the companies claimed to be establishing model communities ( Griffin , 1971 , pp. 168–70 ; Waller , 1983 , pp. 254ff . ) . |
| 18 | Typically enough , the liberals claimed to be re-establishing the early medieval fuero juzgo — a claim which caused endless legal confusion — when in fact they were crowning the work of the eighteenth-century civil servants with the economic individualism of the French Revolution . |
| 19 | My particular dodger , who claimed to be selling household items , became very frightened when I took his photograph through the leaded front door window . |
| 20 | The legality of these road-blocks was not tested in court ; the police claimed to be relying both on the Road Traffic Act and on the breach of the peace power as it had been developed during the miners ' strike ( see below ) . |
| 21 | He claimed to be feeling like ‘ a bit of chewed-up string ’ when he walked out for what was to be the finest ride of his life . |
| 22 | Last week a psychologist , Andrew Hill , revealed that of 213 nine-year-old girls interviewed , a third yearned to be thinner ; some claimed to be dieting . |
| 23 | He must tighten that clause and accept the argument that he claimed to be attempting to grasp , which is to target the offence on violent offenders . |
| 24 | Megan claimed to be standing on her own two feet , but J. Graham Jones , of Aberystwyth , says LG confided to her that he had caused a hint to be given , if her opponent behaved himself after the vote , that he would help him find a seat to fight . |
| 25 | Bodo asked the waitress if she would take the romantic lead in a film he claimed to be making and when she had gone , said , ‘ I do n't think so , but you never know , do you ? |
| 26 | Laud , in introducing ceremonial and surplices and in removing Communion tables from the body of the church to the chancel , claimed to be restoring the practices of the early Church . |
| 27 | Social ostracism followed outbursts of silliness , hubby drank a lot , did n't hit her often but did bad-mouth her excessively , and took up fishing ; went away for weekends with male friends she 'd never heard of , Claimed to be tackling rivers but kept bringing home filleted sea fish on the Sunday night , and was always suspiciously careful to empty his pockets when he gave her his clothes to wash . |
| 28 | She claimed to be doing it only for Jeeta , but there was real , wilful contrariness in it , I suspected . |
| 29 | At first the rebels appealed to the sultan , whose authority they claimed to be upholding against the janissaries . |
| 30 | She claimed to be quoting from the highest rituals when she wrote , |