Example sentences of "be say [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have contended that the success , and for that matter failure , of blacks in sport has nothing to do with so-called physical characteristics which they are all meant to share , nor with psychological predispositions which they clearly do not have , and certainly not with physical inheritances which are said to have been somehow transmitted genetically from their slave forefathers . |
| 2 | The IRFU president Tony Browne and the chairman of the IRFU amateur subcommittee , Roly Meates , are said to have been very sympathetic towards the players . |
| 3 | Minton went to apologise and by the end of his visit both he and Lindsay are said to have been very drunk and reconciled . |
| 4 | In the exciting report of the prospect of finding a Roman amphitheatre at Newstead in the Borders ( 11 March ) the legions are said to have been there from ‘ about 43 AD ’ . |
| 5 | The Benue Rift deposits are spread out along 600 km , so they can not yet be said to have been adequately characterised , but the technical , stylistic , compositional and lead isotope evidence now points to the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes originating within Nigeria . |
| 6 | W. P. Hartley also made donations so that the movement could be said to have been financially based on Quaker chocolate and Methodist jam . |
| 7 | Much more evidence needs to be uncovered , if indeed it exists , much more work to be done even in available sources before the origins and development of this sort of muftilik can be said to have been fully studied . |
| 8 | Indeed , even at the time of the negotiations which led up to the SEA the European Communities ( EC ) Commission ( the Civil Service which administers the communities from Brussels ) estimated that in excess of 300 measures remained to be adopted before the problem of what came to be called ‘ non-Europe ’ could be said to have been fully addressed . |
| 9 | As such Reports go , therefore , Younger can be said to have been fairly effective , in spite of being limited by being unable to consider public sector threats to privacy . |
| 10 | Neither can the student unrest in Germany be said to have been as serious as it was in France . |
| 11 | At a Symposium organized to pay tribute to Darwin a hundred years after his death , it is perhaps permitted to expand on one tiny fragment of ecological research that may truly be said to have been directly stimulated by Darwin 's own writings , in particular by the paragraph quoted as heading to this paper . |
| 12 | First , if the plaintiff had passed on the relevant tax to others , the taxing authority could not be said to have been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , and he was not therefore entitled to recover . |
| 13 | The last payment could not be said to have been more than required to pay for such services rendered then or in the future . |
| 14 | The great majority were said to have been either cured or relieved . |
| 15 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 16 | Barclays , NatWest , Midland , Lloyds , TSB and Abbey National were said to have been too scared to act alone . |
| 17 | Under the new management of Andrzeja Strejlaua , and with several team changes , they were said to have been much improved in narrowly losing a friendly in Spain last month . |
| 18 | If , after having done something , the consequence is ‘ nice ’ then the behaviour is said to have been positively reinforced . |
| 19 | Diana is said to have been deeply distressed by reports that she has recently suffered another outbreak of bulimia nervosa , the binge-eating disease . |
| 20 | Belief in these three Pates is said to have been very deep-rooted in Greece , and apparently survived in parts of the country almost till the present day , where birth customs included rites to propitiate these goddesses . |
| 21 | So if w = 0.5 , this year 's expected rate would be 13 per cent ; if w = 1 , this year 's expected rate would be 16 per cent ( in this case , the expectation is said to have been fully adjusted ) ; if w = 0 , the expectation would be 10 per cent ( that is , it would not have been adjusted at all ) . |
| 22 | He 's said to have been very presidential in the Cabinet Room . |
| 23 | Chimera was said to have been eventually slain by BELLEROPHON , riding the flying horse PEGASUS , who was able to fly through the air and dodge the monster 's blasts of flame . |
| 24 | Goebbels 's eulogy of Hitler in an article in Das Reich on 31 December was said to have been well received by ‘ only a few people 's comrades and naturally the old loyal fighters ’ . |
| 25 | A few plants are associated with historical lore such as the pink convolvulus or sea bindweed ( Calystegia soldanella ) , which is called ‘ the Prince 's flower ’ , because it was said to have been originally sown by Prince Charles in 1745 when he landed in Eriskay , and it is still growing on that island . |