Example sentences of "claim [to-vb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilfrid is claimed to have baptised 250 slaves of both sexes at Selsey and there is the celebrated case of ‘ Angles ’ from Deira , an area approximating to the historic county of Yorkshire , being sold in the market-place of Rome c . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The pesh merga also claimed to have captured 80,000 government troops . |
| 4 | Men also claimed to have had four times more sexual partners in their lives than women — 12.1 versus 3.2. — Reuter |
| 5 | Men also claimed to have had four times more sexual partners in their lives than women — 12.1 versus 3.2. — Reuter |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Your Majesty can claim to have canvassed one vote for the National Government . ' |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The farmers threatened to sue IBM and one , Jack Briscoe , whose farm was only a few hundred yards from the mine entrance , claimed to have lost 40 animals in the past ten years from toxic lead fallout from the mine 's operations . |
| 12 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 13 | On Sept. 18 security forces claimed to have killed 70 guerrillas as they staged an abortive attack on a police garrison to free prisoners held in the El Sepa prison colony situated in Loreto department in the north-east Amazonian region . |
| 14 | The EPLF claimed to have killed 6,500 government troops in repelling an offensive launched on April 19 on the Ginda front north-east of Asmara . |
| 15 | In the Vavuniya area the government forces claimed to have killed 250 LTTE fighters for the loss of 35 soldiers in operations on May 2-13 , after which the curfew in the area was declared lifted . |
| 16 | On the same day the Sri Lankan army claimed to have killed 50 guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , bringing to over 600 the total number of those killed in the latest military offensive under way since mid-March in the north around Mullaittivu and Mannar . |
| 17 | Hezbollah claimed to have killed some members of a joint Israeli-SLA patrol in a bomb attack in the " security zone " on Jan. 17 . |
| 18 | He was apprenticed about 1602 to the London engraver and instrument-maker Charles Whitwell , with whom he claimed to have served nine years by the time of Whitwell 's death in 1611 . |
| 19 | Near the end of the second count a fight broke out at the Zuwaya goal because the teller , the secretary to the local Assembly and technically above suspicion , but also Maghrabi and therefore watched very carefully , claimed to have recorded 900 votes . |
| 20 | Clark claimed to have seen little damage to military targets but maintained that residential areas and hospitals and other civilian facilities had been severely attacked , resulting in heavy civilian casualties . |
| 21 | Iran claimed to have liberated 37 villages in the provinces of al-Amarah and Basrah , but as far as the front was concerned , Iraq 's defences near al-Amarah were reported to have held . |
| 22 | The EPLF claimed to have destroyed 24 tanks in the assault , and captured 75 intact , together with a large quantity of arms and ammunition . |
| 23 | In their continuing efforts to cut off supplies to government forces besieged in Berbera , the SNM claimed to have captured another cargo ship in the Red Sea on Jan. 15 . |
| 24 | In addition , many firms claimed to have introduced flexible work agreements , with 71% claiming to have team-working and nearly two-fifths operating to a just-in-time production system . |
| 25 | By the end of the second day the allies claimed to have taken 20,000 prisoners , to have destroyed 270 enemy tanks and to have progressed more rapidly than anticipated . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The owner claimed to have had reasonable grounds to believe the truth of his misrepresentation because the Lloyd 's Register had ( in a rare mistake ) wrongly stated the payload as 1,800 tons . |
| 28 | Tom Driberg claimed to have had oral sex with which former Labour minister ? |
| 29 | The role of the US embassy was also heavily criticized for withholding the evidence of at least one US military advisor who claimed to have had prior knowledge of the plan to kill the priests . |
| 30 | For those who claimed to have had this experience , the exemplary manner in which they met their death was the ultimate proof they were indeed saved . |