Example sentences of "[adv] claim [to-vb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unit is hiring extra staff that will boost its roll call from 130 to 150 all told : it already claims to have poached several engineers from Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp research labs out in Grenoble . |
| 2 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 3 | Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow . |
| 4 | The product is also claimed to have enhanced diagnostic capabilities to manage enterprise-wide networks as well as an Integrated Boot Device , which uses Flash memory , a floppy drive for loading software upgrades and for data collection , and SNMP time-stamped event logging with a real time clock . |
| 5 | The pesh merga also claimed to have captured 80,000 government troops . |
| 6 | Men also claimed to have had four times more sexual partners in their lives than women — 12.1 versus 3.2. — Reuter |
| 7 | Men also claimed to have had four times more sexual partners in their lives than women — 12.1 versus 3.2. — Reuter |
| 8 | ISAAC ASIMOV , who has died in New York aged 72 , was best known for his works of science fiction , a genre in which he reigned supreme , but he could also claim to have written more books about more subjects than any other author . |
| 9 | Over 950 LTTE guerrillas were recorded as killed , two-thirds of them around Mannar , on Mannar Island in the north-west , where the government now claimed to have established firm control . |
| 10 | A report by the Public Prosecutor 's office in Lisbon , the Portuguese capital , had earlier claimed to have found sufficient grounds to accuse Melancia of involvement in corruption in connection with the building of the new airport in Macao . |