Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] is said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full IBM CICS support is said to be on its way . |
| 2 | Control Data Corp is said to be considering taking over the development of Portable NetWare for the MIPS chip , sources claimed last week . |
| 3 | IBM Corp is said to be going to relieve the Open Software Foundation of one of its heaviest burdens and take over integration responsibilities for the Distributed Management Environment . |
| 4 | The Making Belfast Work initiative is said to be the centre of economic development policy in West Belfast . |
| 5 | The unit matrix I is a diagonal matrix of unit elements ; a matrix having all its elements zero is said to be null and is written 0 . |
| 6 | Grimsby 's Fish Dock is said to the the world 's biggest fish market , with nearly a mile of quays . |
| 7 | The Transport Department is said by the report to " have recently admitted that they only put a nominal value on public open space which would be destroyed by a proposed road scheme " . |
| 8 | The sixty seven year old chairman of Thames water is said to be depressed after he was diagnosed as having Parkinsons disease . |
| 9 | Digital picture quality is said to be still no match for conventional photographic film but the big advantage is immediacy . |
| 10 | The OSS sleeve dagger is said to be ’ Specially designed to be concealed on arm or leg , especially during body search . ’ |
| 11 | Six UK licencees include the Prudential Building Society , the Post Office and Swiss Bank — North West Water is said to be taking a look . |
| 12 | Its price tag is said to be in the low $200,000 range . |
| 13 | With Frigi-Thalgo , inch loss is said to be almost permanent after six or more sessions — dieting and exercise included — and noticable loss is possible within a £35 one-hour session , with the effect lasting 48 hours . |
| 14 | Quality consciousness is said to be very high among Japanese workers who endeavour to eliminate components that are rejected as substandard . |
| 15 | The cable television industry is said to be leery of handing over a standard to a third party such as Microsoft Corp , which has teamed up with Intel Corp to develop a set-top control box based on the 80386 and Windows ; the 80386 is also regarded as underpowered for graphics work . |
| 16 | Sex on Sweeney 's cannibal isle is said to be a business of being ‘ bored ’ , but the horror of the perception takes it out of mere ‘ boredom ’ , which was killing the Melanesians and , Eliot thought , the modern world . |
| 17 | One well-known television personality is said to be rather hard on the teleprompter operators . |
| 18 | The 65 ft tower is said to be the best-proportioned tower in Holderness . |
| 19 | PC performance is said to be unaffected by the card . |
| 20 | The Clinton administration is said to be looking again at the tangible objectives underlying the federal government 's support for research ( see page 776 ) , while the British government , in the shape of the Department of Trade and Industry , is seeking a more direct ( if a more avuncular than the American ) role in fostering industrial competitiveness . |
| 21 | Membership of the Public Windows Initiative is said to be a condition of taking a WABI licence — all licensees are understood to have been sworn to secrecy under the direst of imprecations . |
| 22 | Cable & Wireless Plc is said to be considering adding some of its other Asian assets to its Hong Kong Telecom Ltd affiliate , in which it holds 58% : this could mean some of C&W 's existing assets in Hong Kong , China , Thailand and the Philippines being acquired by Hong Kong Telecom ; up to now , group investments in the region have been made and held by Cable & Wireless itself . |
| 23 | The Americans position is said to be more complicated . |
| 24 | Intel Corp is said to be talking eagerly to anyone with cooling technology that could prevent its Pentiums turning personal computers into desktop microwave ovens . |
| 25 | Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it considered for NT , and is thought unlikely to go with a $100 price . |
| 26 | Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it was trying with NT , and is now thought to be unlikely to go with the $99 price . |
| 27 | The Mosher case is said to be the main reason . |
| 28 | Though the Conservative Club 's 500 members have pledged Party allegiance to a man the question of women membership is said to be ‘ in abeyance ’ the number of votes in Horden is unlikely to have filled many coal tubs . |
| 29 | With step-by-step diagrams and photography plus an A to Z listing of garden plants , plant propagation is said to be the cheapest way of getting a well-stocked garden . |
| 30 | A space-time in which events have imaginary values of the time coordinate is said to be Euclidean , after the ancient Greek Euclid , who founded the study of geometry of two-dimensional surfaces . |