Example sentences of "'s chief claim to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 2 | Lee 's chief claim to scientific consideration , apart from his patronage , was the construction of an observatory in the grounds of Hartwell House . |
| 3 | Coxe 's chief claim to retrospective fame was his activity as a colonial adventurer : indeed , Daniel Defoe [ q.v. ] in his Essay on Projects ( 1697 ) was to single out Coxe , along with William Penn [ q.v. ] and Anthony Ashley Cooper , first Earl of Shaftesbury [ q.v. ] , in this connection . |
| 4 | Although he was active in the local government of Warwickshire , Worcestershire , and , more briefly , Buckinghamshire , Throckmorton 's chief claim to fame is as one of the few who openly attacked Henry VIII over the divorce of Catherine of Aragon [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | Pritchard 's chief claim to fame , however , lies in his role in connection with a structure of a quite different type which he did not live to see executed — the famous Iron Bridge across the river Severn in Coalbrookdale , Shropshire . |