Example sentences of "[be] claim [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have had a religious experience — which is not to say , of course , that I am claiming a religious explanation for it . |
| 2 | SCIENTISTS are claiming a major breakthrough in the fight against Aids . |
| 3 | DOCTORS are claiming a new success for monoclonal antibodies in fighting the rejection of transplants by the human body . |
| 4 | If you have to have a special diet for health reasons , and find you can not afford the price , make sure you are claiming the supplementary benefits to which you are entitled . |
| 5 | The linguist is claiming the interpretative authority of a scientific understanding . |
| 6 | The distribution has been examined principally within the context of wind blown dune sands ( Bagnold & Barndorff-Nielsen , 1980 ; Christiansen , 1984 ) for which it was claimed the hyperbolic function encompassed the extreme values of the size distribution tails better than the log-normal plot . |
| 7 | Although France had already repaid $630 million , Iran was claiming an extra $1,000 million in interest payments . |
| 8 | ‘ Because he regarded you as a rival , both on the tracks and off , and by claiming paternity he was claiming he 'd made love to me first , before you , and so was claiming the superior position . ’ |