Example sentences of "[pron] claim a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pro-independence demonstrations were ruthlessly suppressed , notably that of 1 March 1919 , which claimed a million demonstrators . |
| 2 | Even in those denominations which claim a Christian orthodoxy , I have often found that the Devil is a formal proposition only . |
| 3 | Third , for any checklist which claims a developmental sequence , the larger the ‘ developmental space ’ between items , the less the checklist will discriminate levels of linguistic ability , and the less accurate it will be . |
| 4 | Sun , which claims an installed base of some 2,000 machines in Ireland , has had an operation up and running for three years . |
| 5 | If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . |
| 6 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 7 | They are planning a new national NHS information service for patients , and they claim a new system will allow complaints to be answered . |
| 8 | They claim a new chicane is turning the road into a racetrack , and they now want it replaced with traffic humps . |
| 9 | They claim a private surveillance team was engaged by one newspaper to follow them , events and quotes attributed to them in stories were made up , and their family and friends were harassed and their privacy invaded . |
| 10 | He claimed a new report on the future of police funding had been suppressed because Mr Clarke did not like its findings . |
| 11 | He claimed a British TV cameraman had distracted him during the second run , ruining his concentration and his chances of a top-three finish . |
| 12 | And he claimed an alleged member of the notorious Shankill butcher gang was also employed by the same company in Belfast . |
| 13 | And another common feature is that each separate country , each state , claims sovereignty that is it claims a legal equality erm within the international order . |
| 14 | Special software running on the workstation parallelises C-based programs using Parix , ACE compilers and the Inmos C Toolset compiler — it claims a tenfold performance increase over the T805 . |
| 15 | He claims a new form of scallop farming , due to begin soon in Loch Crinan in Argyll , extends the principle of landlordism into the sea and must be opposed . |
| 16 | He claims a simple quality for his companions in these crazy adventures , and in the Bedu whom he admires most of all . |