Example sentences of "claimed [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Santa Clara , California-based Retix Inc has announced the OpenMessaging Solution , a product family claimed to provide enterprise-wide interoperability between heterogeneous electronic mail systems . |
| 3 | Many of the organisations claimed to provide supplementary training and disseminate information through their own journals and leaflets to raise awareness of the risks . |
| 4 | The 1944 Education Act claimed to eliminate such inequality of opportunity by making entry to grammar schools the result of an examination open to all via the competition of the ‘ 11-plus ’ . |
| 5 | Allocating them to niches of higher or lower favour on a cabbalistic tree , they claimed to detect some principle of metamorphosis . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Most B.Ed primary courses claimed to cover all the areas of content listed in the questionnaire . |
| 8 | Both courses claimed to cover all topics , except Syllabus Design which was only covered by one . |
| 9 | The parliament of the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina ( SRBH ) , which claimed to cover 63.5 per cent of Bosnian territory , on Sept. 16 declared itself in favour of union with the FRY . |
| 10 | The pto drive runs in a near straight line from the tractor with equal angle joints claimed to give quiet running and allow a tight turning circle . |
| 11 | He thought that he could defined the , the simplest concepts to which Peano claimed to reduce arithmetical ideas , to classes and relations between classes , and even perhaps in terms of something still simpler , quite purely in logical conceptions like that of implication . |
| 12 | Mystery also surrounded the status of a British ‘ military adviser ’ whom the guerrillas at one point claimed to hold captive . |
| 13 | Taylor was reported to have criticized the composition of the conference , demanding the participation of elected representatives of Liberia 's 13 counties , of which his faction claimed to control 12 . |
| 14 | He claimed to demonstrate these causes . |
| 15 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday took the new PowerCD CD-ROM product , announced at Hannover last week , to the US market , saying that it expects to sell 1.5m of the things by the end of this year ; it also said it has shipped more than 1m copies of its QuickTime multimedia software since its launch in January 1992 , and has formed a new unit , New Media to increase market access to multimedia technologies , expand multimedia content and develop new markets for Mac technology ; the PowerCD comes with AppleDesign Powered Speakers claimed to deliver high-quality sound at half the price of similar stereo speakers . |
| 16 | Through its UK distributor , Basingstoke , Hampshire-based Dataguild Ltd , Optical Data Systems Inc has announced a new hub family claimed to integrate Token Ring , Ethernet and FDDI in a single chassis . |
| 17 | Jones claimed to have good title by virtue of the two sections , thereby defeating the title of the owner from whom the thieves had stolen the car . |
| 18 | It claimed to have wide support from parents for its provisions concerning homosexuality , the coverage of political issues in the classroom , and the ‘ moral ’ dimension to sex education . |
| 19 | One of the first opposition parties to be legalized ( on Sept. 12 , 1989-see p. 36905 ) was the fundamentalist Front islamique du salut ( FIS ) , which claimed to have 3,000,000 members . |
| 20 | Some 73% of the sample claimed to have middle or senior management capable of using both English and German , though knowledge of French was limited to some 24% . |
| 21 | Government and allied forces claimed to have stemmed rebel attacks on the border towns by the end of the month . |
| 22 | Years earlier he had resided briefly at a clinic with Vivien , where Robert Sencourt claimed to have first met them both : and earlier still he had spoken of a mental condition of ‘ long-standing ’ . |
| 23 | During the campaign it was reported that the government had extended voting rights to virtually anyone , wherever they lived , who claimed to have one Croatian parent or even merely an intention of acquiring Croatian citizenship . |