Example sentences of "as claim [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |
| 2 | Cranmer indeed went so far as to claim that : ‘ where the word of God was adversary and against his authority , pomp , covetousness , idolatry and superstitious doctrine , he [ the pope ] , spying this , became adversary unto the word of God , falsifying it , extorting it out of the true sense . ’ |
| 3 | He even goes so far , as to claim that ‘ notionally , in the short term you could achieve the necessary revenue only with the IBM customers … |
| 4 | Although Johnson does not go so far as to claim that the affectless society was responsible for the Moors Murders , she does feel able to argue that the general atmosphere in society at the time had ‘ infected ’ the social system , and that ‘ Brady possibly , Hindley almost certainly , have been victims of fallout ’ . |
| 5 | In a passage which reads very oddly indeed today and betrays his naïveté , Durkheim even went so far as to claim that such was the depressing degree of homogeneity in primitive society that its members were actually physically indistinguishable from each other ! |
| 6 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 7 | One theorist has gone so far as to claim that ‘ the viability of the large corporation with diffuse security ownership is … explained in terms of a model where primary disciplining of managers comes through managerial labor markets , both within and outside of the firm ’ . |
| 8 | The CPSU Central Committee , reviewing these developments in the early 1970s , went so far as to claim that a ‘ new historical collectivity of people — the Soviet people ’ had come into existence in the USSR , based upon the ‘ common ownership of the means of production , unity of economic , socio-political and cultural life , Marxist-Leninist ideology , and the interests and communist ideals of the working class ’ . |
| 9 | The Irish Times quoted Craig as claiming that a reason for banning the march had been that it posed a threat to the United States military base in Derry : |
| 10 | This is about as convincing as claiming that her signing ‘ clock ’ manifests her mastery of ‘ time ’ . |
| 11 | As the Chinese President Yang Shangkun visited Tehran and Esfahan in central Iran on Oct. 30-Nov. 2 , unnamed officials in the US administration were quoted in the Washington Post of Oct. 31 as claiming that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon using calutron equipment — capable of producing highly enriched uranium — purchased from China . |
| 12 | The Associated Press news agency on Feb. 9 reported Bangladesh sources as claiming that 200 Moslem rebels detained in Arakan by the government had died of starvation or suffocation in the preceding week , while 75 others were reported missing after Myanman troops fired on boats of refugees . |
| 13 | Former President Ayaz Mutalibov was reported on April 9 as claiming that the losses sustained at Khojali [ see p. 38827 ] were exaggerated to discredit him . |
| 14 | Iran-based opposition groups were quoted on Sept. 7 as claiming that up to 2,000 people in the south had recently been arrested for " anti-government activities " . |
| 15 | It quotes timber industry insiders as claiming that the Wickes DIY store is stocking lauan mahogany , despite an insistence on the part of the store that all its timber products come from " sustainable sources " . |