Example sentences of "[conj] claim [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many factors that must be taken into account , and it is often the use of different survey methodology that can cause politicians and others to disagree over particular surveys that claim to show growing poverty or increased prosperity . |
| 2 | In Tanzania , the Government had control of most of the media and claimed to exercise this control on behalf of the workers and peasants in order to enhance their freedom rather than to restrict it . |
| 3 | Of even greater importance , however , the concept united and ordered so many different facets in observable behaviour of the young and claimed to provide such insight and understanding of their physiology and psychology , in particular the significance of ‘ instincts ’ , ‘ emotions ’ , and ‘ habits ’ , that everything about them , including their wage-earning capacity , could be made knowable and manageable . |
| 4 | As the prophet Jesus could say with authority , ‘ Amen , amen I say unto you , ’ and claim to speak final truth about God , ‘ We speak of what we know , and bear witness of what we have seen ’ ( John 3:11 ) . |
| 5 | This was the gravamen of Bukharin 's complaint , that Preobrazhensky , whilst claiming to discuss abstract theory , was in fact discussing matters that could only relate to concrete current policies . |