Example sentences of "claim [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driven by up to eight Intel Corp 80860XP RISCs , Realityengine is claimed to perform at 800 MFLOPS and comes with up to 160Mb of memory for handling screen display . |
| 2 | Indeed , as we shall see below , Lyons ' general arguments about language differences can be claimed to rest to some extent on implicit assumptions about literacy of the kind that they make . |
| 3 | A two-thirds majority will be necessary to bring the new set-up into being at the beginning of the 1994-95 season , but last night a Premier Division chairman claimed to know of three others from the top 12 who would , along with his club , vote against the proposal . |
| 4 | In the seventeenth century at least both the Dutch republic and Sweden could claim to rank as great powers in their own right . |
| 5 | The R4000 , claimed to run at 70 SPECmarks , 85 MIPS and 16 MFLOPS , includes tightly integrated support for 1Mb secondary cache , a key element in the performance of the machine . |
| 6 | When they could no longer claim to act with royal backing they were dangerously vulnerable . |
| 7 | When they could no longer claim to act with royal backing they were dangerously vulnerable . |
| 8 | They claimed to speak for traditional family values and found support from various fundamentalists — Orthodox Jewish , Roman Catholic , Baptist — in an attempt both to broaden their appeal among Haringey 's multiracial population and to strengthen their message that homosexuality was ‘ unnatural ’ in all cultures . |
| 9 | The public profile of the CBI 's director general mainly derives from his willingness to pronounce in public on issues of political interest , his fluency and persuasiveness in doing so and the fact that he can claim to speak for British industry . |
| 10 | Is not it disgraceful that the Government are destroying living standards , yet they claim to believe in human values ? |
| 11 | The 15 or so parties that claim to speak for British Muslims are constantly at war with each other . |
| 12 | Those who most confidently claim to speak for British interests sometimes seem to have the least confidence that those interests are likely to prevail . |
| 13 | One afternoon in late October we heard on a local radio station that someone , claiming to speak for Islamic Jihad , had phoned to announce that two Americans would be executed . |
| 14 | Mr Mandela , thus , has already begun on his own the negotiating process that Mr de Klerk 's government claims to seek with black leaders . |