Example sentences of "say [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To that extent , the oil sector , that makes up around 8% of the stockmarket 's capitalisation , could be said to be 100% dollar sensitive . |
| 2 | The man most concerned to limit the publicity given to the Memorie was said to be Bernard Berenson . |
| 3 | It was said to be Mrs Thatcher 's favourite television programme — indeed , she actually took part in a rehearsal . |
| 4 | The benefits , like those of meditation , are said to be stress reduction , improved memory , increased creativity , expanded awareness and better problem-solving . |
| 5 | Cheapest items are said to be £32 wine goblets etched by the Queen 's engraver Andrew Lawson Johnston with Ovid 's motto : Wine gives courage and makes men apt for passion . |
| 6 | The gardener presenting a pineapple to the king in a painting attributed to Hendrik Danckerts , possibly painted about 1670 ( later in the collection at Houghton House ) is said to be John Rose , and several copies of this picture — at Ham House and elsewhere — demonstrate an interest in this exotic fruit . |
| 7 | Kloska 's findings echo those in other research ( e.g. Docking 1980 , Dunham 1977 , Kyriacou and Sutcliffe 1981 ) which record an increasing sense of occupational stress of which the predominant sources are said to be classroom control and pupil misbehaviour . |
| 8 | The embodiment of the new Europe is often said to be Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 9 | In this event there is said to be market failure . |
| 10 | If the market does not achieve an efficient allocation of resources there is said to be market failure . |
| 11 | He was acquitted , under count 6 , of obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception in the same terms as that laid under count 1 , save that the victim of the deception was said to be Mr. Hughes , and of two further counts of obtaining property by deception . |
| 12 | The new regiment earned its army nickname through the term of endearment used throughout the intimate conversation by the man who was said to be Mr Gilbey . |
| 13 | On March 21 and 22 , 1990 , Kurdish rebels , said to be KWP members , shot dead nine Turkish mine-workers on their way to work , while others burned down an elementary school in Yukarigungoren village in Agri Dogubeyazit . |
| 14 | Doubts were raised about the claims of ex-banker Cyril Reenan that he was able to monitor a lovey-dovey conversation between a mystery woman , said to be Princess Diana , and an unidentified man for a total of 23 minutes . |