Example sentences of "['s] claim to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philippe , Duke of Orleans , brother to the future Louis XIV was raised as a girl to ensure that he would n't pose a threat to his elder sibling 's claim to the throne of France . |
| 2 | His most important assignment during that period was an appearance at the Lateran Council of 1139 , where he defended Stephen 's claim to the throne of England by attacking Matilda 's legitimacy . |
| 3 | To the English , no settlement could be envisaged without consideration of their king 's claim to the crown of France , a claim which might be compensated for by the grant of other territories in France , to be held in full sovereignty . |
| 4 | They could not give the impression that they doubted the validity of their king 's claim to the crown of France , for by so doing they would have thrown doubt upon the symbolic and legal importance of Henry VI 's French coronation , rendering illegal the very authority ( the royal one ) upon which the validity of the grants made to Englishmen ( and others ) in Normandy depended . |
| 5 | Right , members will recall from the last meeting , there was an issue of it at Shrewsbury College , because of the transfer of the screw and ribbon factory to the college , or the College 's claim to the transfer of the screw and ribbon factory to them , because of the er , the cre the vesting of the College as an in independent body under the Higher Education Act . |
| 6 | The state stands for , in an abstract sense , the final repository of agreement of the people to be ruled , and therefore an ultimate legitimation , backed up in the last instance , by the state 's claim to the monopoly of legitimate use of force . |
| 7 | Marxism 's claim to the status of a science proper thus functions as a device to avoid the historicity through which it accounts for other phenomena . |