Example sentences of "claim [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly one million people have now had to claim mean-tested benefits in order to top up low pay . |
| 2 | We must expand the breadth of political argument if we are to claim political integrity as a distinct ideal on its own . |
| 3 | the movement which , at the close of the colonial era , led it to be asked of the West what entitles its culture , its science , its social organization , and finally its rationality itself , to be able to claim universal validity : was this not a mirage associated with economic domination and political hegemony ? |
| 4 | Shadow Environment Secretary Chris Smith said the government 's implementation of the EC Directive on Access to Environmental Information could only be described as " minimalist " , allowing companies maximum scope to claim commercial confidentiality . |
| 5 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 6 | It appeared that they encouraged the men not to live there , but to claim social security as if they were . |
| 7 | If their incomes are low — if , for example , a student nurse has a low income — there will be no difficulty ; she will be able to claim social security benefit , so there is no reason why she should be entitled to the exemption available to other students . |
| 8 | Some play has been made of the fact that the Government withdrew the right to claim social security benefits from most full-time students . |
| 9 | In Jobling , the plaintiff might have been able to claim social security benefits to partially compensate for his losses . |
| 10 | From 1360 until the complete collapse of the Imperial system in 1979 there were two Emperors : the elected Emperor and the Elector Count of Talabecland , who continued to claim hereditary position as Emperor following the self-appointed reign of Ottilia . |
| 11 | After an exhausting schedule of two days of pool matches — the most tortuous ‘ trial by fire ’ ever devised for a sevens tournament — Namibia had established themselves as firm favourites to claim top spot among the four qualifying berths up for grabs in Catania for Murrayfield , 1993 . |
| 12 | The Attorney General , Sir Nicholas Lyell QC , said yesterday he had , with counsel , advised ministers in the Matrix Churchill case that they were legally required to claim public interest immunity on behalf of the Crown . |
| 13 | One moon was the crescent that until now had claimed sole tenancy of the night . |
| 14 | In this case it becomes less a matter of addressing contemporary political problems than of resisting institutional power , namely those critical readings which have recently claimed cultural hegemony , and of providing instead alternative accounts which insist on heterogeneity and resistance in historical texts . |
| 15 | If the organisers feel that their event can cover the cost of the free voucher/ticket and do not seek reimbursement from the Society , please advise the office of the names of all those who have claimed free tickets , so that the overall success of this scheme can be monitored . |
| 16 | Claimed top speed 75mph |
| 17 | A YOUNG Tyrone man has claimed British intelligence officers tried to recruit him as an informer while he was on holiday in Spain . |
| 18 | Claimed Public Footpath Snowhill Lane to Long Lane , Scorton |
| 19 | Claimed Public Footpath Snow Hill — Long Lane Scorton |
| 20 | Claimed Public Footpath Nickey Nook , Scorton |
| 21 | The antislavery body also claimed effective access to government on the aspect of anti-slave trade policy which complemented suppression ; after pressure over some years for the British government to reduce discriminatory duties on commercial products from West Africa originating with information by Roscoe , duties on cotton wool , ginger , coffee and palm oil were lessened . |
| 22 | In June 1364 , shortly after the accession of Charles V to the French throne , a spy of the Black Prince wrote to his master reporting a conversation between Charles of Navarre and the Count of Foix , in which the count had claimed intimate knowledge of the new king 's intentions . |
| 23 | The settlers had claimed legal ownership of the houses in October and had made efforts to move in to the Silwan sector at that time , but the police had prevented them from doing so after the Attorney General , Yosef Harish , had recommended that they be barred from the properties on security considerations . |
| 24 | Many rabbis expected a Messiah after the destruction of the Second Temple , and the greatest of them , Rabbi Akiva , found his Messiah in Bar Kochba under Hadrian , though it is very doubtful whether Bar Kochba himself even claimed Messianic status . |
| 25 | Accountancy firm Ernst and Young — which is attempting to sell the dwelling for its clients — has been made court appointed receivers for Nationchoice Limited which has claimed beneficial ownership of the building . |
| 26 | As for complaints that employers falsely claimed bad workmanship or embezzlement of materials to deduct fines from wages , even William Temple , an ardent polemicist for the clothiers in a dispute with the West Country weavers in 1727 , admitted knowing one clothier who stopped wages " in a most base and flagrant manner " , despite which he became a JP . |
| 27 | A PROPERTY developer has claimed congested roads in Middlesbrough are hampering the letting of his scheme in the town 's Enterprise Zone . |
| 28 | Unita , however , has not yet claimed outright victory in Huambo , where its leader , Jonas Savimbi , has established his headquarters , and the Angolan government said yesterday it was still fighting desperately to save the city . |
| 29 | A comparable area of research has been that by Genevan workers with a concern for environmental processes such as Doise and Mugney ( 1984 ) and Perret-Clermont ( 1980 ) , who have claimed significant advances in cognitive development when children work in pairs on Piagetian tasks . |
| 30 | Their privileges as permanent Security Council members , especially the right of veto , had been increasingly questioned by Germany and Japan which , as major economic powers , had allegedly claimed permanent membership of the Council . |