Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] claim to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the Vatican rightly claims to be the country with the world 's lowest birthrate ; since most of its permanent residents are Roman Catholic clergy and nuns , the chances of a baby appearing in their midst are slim by anyone 's reckoning . |
| 2 | Hull justly claims to be the birthplace of the Civil War . |
| 3 | Mr McGovern also claims to be free of the banks , never having incurred much long-term debt . |
| 4 | Even when , in 1978 , McLaren returned from Brazil with the news that Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was now ‘ lead singer ’ of the Sex Pistols and someone McLaren earnestly claimed to be the missing Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann was the new bass-guitarist , Branson took it with disarming enthusiasm . |
| 5 | Walesa also claimed to be prepared to govern the country by force because legislation was not being implemented by the Sejm [ see p. 38305 ] . |
| 6 | During the 1980S France increasingly claimed to be reaping the benefits of French and European space policy decisions taken in the 1973–5 period . |