Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 2 | My stepfather was saying to me , ‘ This is my way of showing you how much I love you and care for you . |
| 3 | Even some members of the Party and its affiliates were said to be included . |
| 4 | Border emerged from that verbal fracas with a flea in his ear from Australian officials , but their patience is said to be wearing thin . |
| 5 | Artists whose cash-pressed dealers have ended their stipends are said to be climbing on board . |
| 6 | Its teeth were said to be venomous , its flesh poisonous , its hair lethal ( causing suffocation if a few were accidentally swallowed ) , and its breath infectious , destroying human lungs and causing consumption . |
| 7 | In an age when décolletage mattered , her shoulders were said to be superb . |
| 8 | The injured woman was admitted to hospital in Bristol with serious burns , where her condition is said to be comfortable . |
| 9 | They were taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital where their condition was said to be stable . |
| 10 | Which product was said by its producers in adverts to Prolong Active Life ? |
| 11 | The package of share options and perks on offer if LWT retained its franchise was said to be worth £3m . |
| 12 | Her name was said to be Gilda . |
| 13 | The use of music in worship in New Zealand has grown in quantity as a result of greater congregational singing , but its quality is said by a correspondent to have declined greatly . |
| 14 | For example , the matrix unc is persymmetric. ( 10 ) Centrosymmetric and centroskew matrices — a matrix which is symmetric about the centre point of its array is said to be centrosymmetric ; thus , if A is centrosymmetric , of order n , it is characterised by unc More simply , if J is the reversing matrix , a centrosymmetric matrix has the property A = JAJ A centroskew matrix is characterised by the equation A = JAJ . |
| 15 | The subsequent history of the town is confused ; by 1564 its trade was said to be in decline , and it sustained a further blow when William 's son retired to the fine house he had built at Shaw on the outskirts of the borough , leaving his men to sing ruefully : |
| 16 | Its people were said to be ‘ more English and the English ’ . |
| 17 | Its spire was said by a contemporary guide to Oxford to form ‘ a conspicuous addition to the architectural adornments of the city ’ . |
| 18 | The Arab press had also referred to a deal by which Iran was said to be funding the purchase by Sudan of Chinese weaponry worth US$300 million over two years . |
| 19 | The self-regulation of the profession and the high standards demanded of its members are said to be the justification for the monopolies enjoyed by those engaging in the activity and by the restrictive practices permitted . |
| 20 | They stress the theory-laden character of our pictures of the world and the extent to which scientists are said to be influenced in their thinking by the social factor of the spirit of the age . |
| 21 | Once again , Arthurian legend underlay the idea of the Order , but the adoption of the garter as its symbol was said in later years to have occurred when , at a ball at Calais in 1348 , the Countess of Salisbury dropped her garter and the king , who was rumoured to have been in love with her , picked it up and in the face of derisive cries from the onlookers put it on his own knee with the remark , ‘ Honi soit qui mal y pense ’ — shame upon him who thinks ill of it . |
| 22 | Some claim to extrude ectoplasm , the substance out of which spirits are said to be made . |
| 23 | Then they to whom we prisoners were Said to us tauntingly , Now let us hear your Hebrew songs And pleasant melody . |
| 24 | Whose penis was said to be as damn near as big as his guitar ? |
| 25 | The histories of the various herds are quite complicated but , very broadly , two of the oldest were the Guisborough Priory in Cleveland and the Whalley Abbey in Lancashire , whose stock was said to be derived from the wild white horned cattle of near-by Bowland Forest in the sixteenth century and deliberately bred for the polling factor by the abbot . |
| 26 | After his victory at Auberoche , prisoners were taken whose ransoms were said to be worth over £50,000 , and in 1346 , according to Froissart , Lancaster 's army returned from a raid into Poitou so laden with riches that they had difficulty in transporting all their gains . |
| 27 | Mr Deacon , whose condition was said to be stable , had been transferred to Middlesbrough from Bishop Auckland General . |
| 28 | Robert Knolles , whose origins were said to be very humble , made a fortune out of war service in the 1350s and 1360s , and may be taken as typical of the successful captains with no inherited wealth who raised themselves by their military skills . |
| 29 | Chung Yong Hoo , the admiral whose wife was said to be involved , had retired before Mr Kim became president . |
| 30 | Cleese , whose fortune is said to be £10 million , has two daughters — 21-year-old daughter Cynthia , from his marriage to Connie , and eight-year-old Camilla from his second marriage . |