Example sentences of "[adv] claim [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marxism 's inability to deal with the political interventions of other oppositional groups has meant that its History can no longer claim to subsume all processes of change . |
| 2 | The IRA can not claim to represent Irish nationalists , as the PLO represents most Palestinians . |
| 3 | This book does not claim to treat this topic exhaustively but focuses attention on the major heads of charge as a reminder of the possible tax consequences of transactions covered in this book ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 4 | Even for a practitioner who does not claim to own such expertise , it is important to consider the extent to which items seem to call upon the linguistic abilities at which the test is directed . |
| 5 | Slough , Berkshire-based T IS Ltd has launched a telephone call logging system aimed specifically at UK local authorities : dubbed Genesis MX , the system is claimed to produce cost centre recharge reports and time-to-answer reports in line with Citizen 's Charter recommendations ; personal computer-based , the product is also claimed to provide flexible recharge reports ( allowing for cross-billing of departments ) which can be linked to micro and mainframe systems for automatic accounting ; no word yet on list price , but T IS is also introducing a rental scheme for the system . |
| 6 | The Stuart kings also claimed to have other prerogative powers of considerable importance , namely a suspending power , which could be used to postpone the operation of a statute for an indefinite period , and a dispensing power , which could be used to relieve offenders from the statutory penalties they had incurred . |
| 7 | It also claims to have better integer performance than the mid-range IBM RS/6000 model 540 . |
| 8 | The Scottish Seamen 's Union , originally claimed to have 1,000 members , lost support so rapidly that it survived for no more than two months . |
| 9 | Within Europe Manchester now claims to have direct airline services to nearly every major Wester European city . |
| 10 | This greatly simplifies what can be a fiddly and time-consuming process , and ( as is frequently claimed to justify many forms of automation ) frees human personnel for more interesting and productive work . |
| 11 | Second , they 're no longer played by ugly gits like Charles Bronson , but by pretty ethnics such as Lou Diamond Phillips who can plausibly claim to have Cherokee blood somewhere in their veins ( it was this which landed Phillips the lead in The Dark Wind , the recent Robert Redfordbacked adaptation of one of Tony Hillerman 's Navajo detective novels ) . |
| 12 | You 've no choice , you 're part of the international environment and you operate in that and you ca n't control , as I 've said before , er even if you 're as powerful as the United States , you ca n't control that environment and you do n't claim to control that environment in the same way that you claim to control your domestic environment . |
| 13 | MS-DOS 6 will include disk compression software and even claims to convert third-party Stacker files to its own compression format . |