Example sentences of "[noun sg] claim [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each side claims to want mutual disarmament most of all , and claims , furthermore , that only the aggressiveness of the other side prevents this . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Now the £249 Atari Portfolio claims to offer crucial functionality to every inside pocket — or at least to replace its own bulk in existing inhabitants . |
| 4 | Continental law claims to give legal officials , rather than policemen , pre-eminence in the investigation . |
| 5 | The ‘ Sounds in Words ’ part of the test uses a picture-naming approach to elicit words which contain the relevant phonemes ; whereas the EAT focuses exclusively upon consonants , the Goldman-Fristoe test claims to sample all consonants ( except ‘ measure , ) , all vowels and the majority of English diphthongs . |
| 6 | Open to the public via telephone or computer connection , the service claims to list 25,000 companies of all kinds . |
| 7 | A clause claiming to shorten these periods is an exemption clause ; |
| 8 | GOVERNMENT claims to have wide support for its education revolution are challenged today in a Daily Post survey . |
| 9 | Financial intermediaries such as banks and insurance companies , acquire direct claims on deficit units and issue to the public their own secondary claims to finance such acquisitions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As indicated above , the notion of a de facto authority depends on that of a legitimate authority since it implies not only actual power over people but , in the normal case , both that the person exercising that power claims to have legitimate authority and that he is acknowledged to have it by some people . |
| 13 | Where a treaty provides for rights of navigation through a certain route , for example an interoceanic canal , it is evident that third party claims to use that route will be made , and that third parties will expect those rights to be irrevocable . |