Example sentences of "[pron] claim [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ideal theologian was a person submissive to authority through the tradition authenticated by the apostolic Bible , not someone with bright new ideas , certainly not someone claiming to offer fresh revelations . |
| 2 | One of the first opposition parties to be legalized ( on Sept. 12 , 1989-see p. 36905 ) was the fundamentalist Front islamique du salut ( FIS ) , which claimed to have 3,000,000 members . |
| 3 | That is good news for those which claim to identify hidden structures and forces , although this itself does nothing to tell us how to justify such a claim . |
| 4 | They include so-called ‘ snuff ’ films which claim to show real murders . |
| 5 | They have n't been moved for quite a long time , and it 's funny how buildings which claim to have extraordinary flexibility sometimes turn out to be really quite rigid . |
| 6 | If we get involved in activities which claim to contact hidden powers ( another word for ‘ hidden ’ is ‘ occult ’ ) — then , often without meaning to , we open our minds to those harmful influences . |
| 7 | A French-led team , which claims to have European Community cash behind it , has contacted the British Mountaineering Council asking if any British climber would be interested in joining a multi-European team to Gasherbrum I in 1992 . |
| 8 | Its contextual critical focus frequently is to attack those who claim to perceive cultural preoccupations which revisionism sees as ideologically disruptive to established ( and establishment ) views of English cultural development . |
| 9 | KALMYKIA is a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian federation with a population of 320,000 , no trees , a universal drink of tea mingled with mutton fat , and a 30-year-old Buddhist president who claims to control 50 companies with a combined turnover of $100m a year . |
| 10 | And , even if it were just an American issue , how can one claim to represent American art properly in the period when women 's work often led the way without including some of the artists I 've mentioned . |
| 11 | Allocating them to niches of higher or lower favour on a cabbalistic tree , they claimed to detect some principle of metamorphosis . |
| 12 | They claim to see each other less than couples who go out to work , meeting for the occasional cup of coffee in the kitchen . |
| 13 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |
| 14 | He claimed to demonstrate these causes . |
| 15 | It claimed to have wide support from parents for its provisions concerning homosexuality , the coverage of political issues in the classroom , and the ‘ moral ’ dimension to sex education . |
| 16 | It claims to have tight controls . |
| 17 | He claims to have several houses — in Switzerland , London , Rome and a rented apartment in New York . |
| 18 | He claims to reject blind discipline . |