Example sentences of "[noun] claim [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday took the new PowerCD CD-ROM product , announced at Hannover last week , to the US market , saying that it expects to sell 1.5m of the things by the end of this year ; it also said it has shipped more than 1m copies of its QuickTime multimedia software since its launch in January 1992 , and has formed a new unit , New Media to increase market access to multimedia technologies , expand multimedia content and develop new markets for Mac technology ; the PowerCD comes with AppleDesign Powered Speakers claimed to deliver high-quality sound at half the price of similar stereo speakers . |
| 2 | Each side claims to want mutual disarmament most of all , and claims , furthermore , that only the aggressiveness of the other side prevents this . |
| 3 | The 1944 Education Act claimed to eliminate such inequality of opportunity by making entry to grammar schools the result of an examination open to all via the competition of the ‘ 11-plus ’ . |
| 4 | Now the £249 Atari Portfolio claims to offer crucial functionality to every inside pocket — or at least to replace its own bulk in existing inhabitants . |
| 5 | Continental law claims to give legal officials , rather than policemen , pre-eminence in the investigation . |
| 6 | The ‘ Sounds in Words ’ part of the test uses a picture-naming approach to elicit words which contain the relevant phonemes ; whereas the EAT focuses exclusively upon consonants , the Goldman-Fristoe test claims to sample all consonants ( except ‘ measure , ) , all vowels and the majority of English diphthongs . |
| 7 | Many of the organisations claimed to provide supplementary training and disseminate information through their own journals and leaflets to raise awareness of the risks . |
| 8 | Similarly , for all the huge majorities claiming to prefer more government spending , even if this involves paying more taxes , what does one make of the finding that voters , when asked which mattered more to themselves and their families , ‘ more public spending or tax cuts ? ’ , a majority preferred the tax cuts ( Marplan , March 1987 ) . |
| 9 | While increasingly businesses claim to fulfil social purposes as well , they will not survive unless they satisfy their customers profitably in the market place . |
| 10 | Some guides and camp managers claim to know safe swimming spots , others say the crocodiles know them too . |
| 11 | Open to the public via telephone or computer connection , the service claims to list 25,000 companies of all kinds . |
| 12 | Patients claiming to have Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ( ME ) may come into the latter category . |
| 13 | Government and allied forces claimed to have stemmed rebel attacks on the border towns by the end of the month . |
| 14 | The pto drive runs in a near straight line from the tractor with equal angle joints claimed to give quiet running and allow a tight turning circle . |
| 15 | He thought that he could defined the , the simplest concepts to which Peano claimed to reduce arithmetical ideas , to classes and relations between classes , and even perhaps in terms of something still simpler , quite purely in logical conceptions like that of implication . |
| 16 | Jones claimed to have good title by virtue of the two sections , thereby defeating the title of the owner from whom the thieves had stolen the car . |
| 17 | A clause claiming to shorten these periods is an exemption clause ; |
| 18 | GOVERNMENT claims to have wide support for its education revolution are challenged today in a Daily Post survey . |
| 19 | Financial intermediaries such as banks and insurance companies , acquire direct claims on deficit units and issue to the public their own secondary claims to finance such acquisitions . |
| 20 | Khatami had criticized attacks since mid-1991 on newspaper offices by groups claiming to protect Islamic values . |
| 21 | Both courses claimed to cover all topics , except Syllabus Design which was only covered by one . |
| 22 | Santa Clara , California-based Retix Inc has announced the OpenMessaging Solution , a product family claimed to provide enterprise-wide interoperability between heterogeneous electronic mail systems . |
| 23 | Through its UK distributor , Basingstoke , Hampshire-based Dataguild Ltd , Optical Data Systems Inc has announced a new hub family claimed to integrate Token Ring , Ethernet and FDDI in a single chassis . |
| 24 | As indicated above , the notion of a de facto authority depends on that of a legitimate authority since it implies not only actual power over people but , in the normal case , both that the person exercising that power claims to have legitimate authority and that he is acknowledged to have it by some people . |
| 25 | Where a treaty provides for rights of navigation through a certain route , for example an interoceanic canal , it is evident that third party claims to use that route will be made , and that third parties will expect those rights to be irrevocable . |