Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [be] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top . |
| 2 | The second possibility is to say that things get fixed along that chain once the objects with which we have to deal have become " large " . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly the advocates of a second network are said to prefer that the regional companies be given autonomy to decide which network to connect to . |
| 4 | Their first tactic was to say they would take away the licence of any striker : their second was to say all striking drivers were in breach of contract and fire them . |
| 5 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 6 | It must in the first place be said that there was probably nothing particularly exceptional about Jesus ' behaviour and attitudes towards women . |
| 7 | For that reason I suppose when I first heard about the money my first reaction was to say ‘ No . |
| 8 | Her first reaction was to say no . |
| 9 | The first age was said to belong to God the Father , the second to God the Son , and the last age to God the Spirit . |
| 10 | For example , when words which should have stress on the first syllable were said with stress on the second syllable , they were misinterpreted . |
| 11 | Your interest in works like the B minor Mass of Bach , Beethoven 's Missa Solemnis , and such semi-sacred works as the Bruckner Fifth Symphony was said not to have endeared you to certain Party officials . |
| 12 | Before the master the attack on the third party notice was , I understand , based on somewhat technical issues , such as the want of particularity in the allegations made against the third party , the fact that there is no assertion that he was part of the conspiracy in which the third defendant is said to have joined and an argument that the third defendant and the third party are not on any view liable to the plaintiffs in respect of the same damage , so that the case is not within section 1(1) of the Civil Liability ( Contribution ) Act 1978 , which I shall mention in some detail later . |
| 13 | The formula on offer by the company last night is said to be similar to the rejected package but with slightly better redundancy terms . |
| 14 | The youngster was taken to Bishop Auckland General Hospital where his condition last night was said to be quite comfortable and improving . |
| 15 | She was later transferred to Middlesbrough General Hospital , where her condition last night was said to be ‘ satisfactory ’ . |
| 16 | She was later transferred to Middlesbrough General , where her condition last night was said to be ‘ satisfactory ’ and not life threatening . |
| 17 | He is detained in Middlesbrough General Hospital where his condition last night was said to be ‘ poorly but stable ’ . |
| 18 | His condition last night was said to be poorly . |
| 19 | The controversial Commons amendment over the Maastricht Treaty 's social chapter — which last week was said to threaten the entire treaty , if not the future of the Government — simply did not matter . |
| 20 | A third interpretation is to say that the strategy has not been implemented and therefore the government is not fully responsible for the outcome . |
| 21 | Random inspections undertaken in England and Wales last year were said to have found more than half the sample failing to comply with statutory requirements . |