Example sentences of "[conj] claim [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's being held in the town that claims it 's the birthplace of British ballooning . |
| 2 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 3 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 4 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 5 | Simone Thiroux , the Canadian student so enamoured of Modigliani , was still shadowing him ; by now she was pregnant and claiming he was the father . |
| 6 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |