Example sentences of "claiming [pers pn] to [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , like the most envious of step-mothers , she does not really want to leave anything worth having to John Major at all ; she wishes to live in Thatcherland , surrounded by mirrors all perpetually claiming her to be the one and only . |
| 2 | Late last week , Hewlett-Packard Co released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |
| 3 | This week it introduced HP Distributed Smalltalk , claiming it to be the first complete implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification for distributed computing . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co has released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |
| 5 | We 're claiming it to be the fastest estate car in the world , the most exclusive and the most expensive . |