Example sentences of "be say [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the next table , nothing had been said to counter this barrage . |
| 2 | Its purpose is to examine in detail the various experimental procedures that have been said to demonstrate acquired distinctiveness and to determine which generate reliable effects that are not to be explained away in other terms . |
| 3 | This call has been said to sound like " go back , go back " , but to me it always sounds like a duck laughing ( to be honest I 've never heard a duck laughing , so I 'm probably totally wrong ) . |
| 4 | In a positive sense active citizenship has been said to involve voluntary work , local initiative and payment of one 's civic dues in service , not just cash . |
| 5 | In Spain , the policies of the enterprises controlled by the holding company INI have been said to follow those of their private sector counterparts , to the detriment of the national interest in areas such as pricing policy and import controls ( e.g. Tamames 1986 : 177–80 ) . |
| 6 | It has been suggested that pressure of a moral obligation as justification is the basis of Brimelow v. Casson , though the case has been said to stand alone and there are conflicting dicta on moral obligation . |
| 7 | The above examples of intergovernmental grants are by no means exhaustive , but enough has been said to indicate that , when the form of grant aid is specified , the nature of the amendment of the budget line for local authorities is specified . |
| 8 | But some forms of enduring relationships have also been said to have this form . |
| 9 | McIllvanney also kept a few power-cruisers of his own for charter , and his yard ran an efficient yacht-servicing and marine supplies business , and thus the boundaries between his operations and Cutwater Charters were necessarily blurred and , for all intents and purposes , he could have been said to run Cutwater . |
| 10 | 1984 — DIANA is pregnant with Prince Harry , and during the summer before his birth the royal couple are said to enjoy some of the happiest times of their marriage . |
| 11 | Traditional corporate-planning theorists are said to ignore these facts , concluding that rational models lead to effective performance and that highly segmented organizations are really tightly coupled systems ( Weick , 1976 , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | Two new humeri from Pakistan are said to retain ancestral characters similar to those seen in Proconsul and Kenyapithecus , with the proximal shaft curving laterally and anteriorly ( that is , convex laterally as in Old World monkeys ) , and a flat deltoid plane , whereas the distal articular surface has several derived great ape features . |
| 13 | Public expenditure in general and social expenditure in particular are said to undermine economic growth in a variety of major and minor inter-related ways . |
| 14 | In the nineteenth century the actress Sarah Bernhardt , ‘ attracted by the Absolute , ’ as one guidebook puts it , built a chateau high on the cliff near its northernmost end , the Pointe des Poulains ( Foals ' Point ) , where the offshore rocks are said to resemble young horses galloping in the swaying navy-blue sea . |
| 15 | These are said to resemble giant Christian lowlanders , and are continually invading Buid settlements in search of human flesh . |
| 16 | They are said to obey Fermi-Dirac statistics . |
| 17 | The absence of women and members of ethnic minorities and the continuing dominance of Oxford and Cambridge arts and classicist graduates amongst the senior civil service and the ‘ high fliers ’ are said to support these criticisms . |
| 18 | The pair are said to dislike each other intensely — only the lure of the big bucks they make keeps them together . |
| 19 | Technically these two conditions are said to yield so-called r and k selective circumstances respectively : r being the ‘ intrinsic rate of natural increase ’ and K the ‘ carrying capacity of an environment ’ . |
| 20 | The notion of shared space ‘ may be acceptable ’ for short loops or culs-de sac , but a ‘ cautious approach ’ is advised : for example , such layouts are said to need segregated play space so that the road will not be used as the main location for play . |
| 21 | They attend different churches and are said to hold separate bank accounts . |
| 22 | More than this , many constitutional authorities have become uneasy about the behaviour of governments in the light of the doctrines of mandate and the manifesto which are said to give effective power to party activists and extremists outside of parliament . |
| 23 | The three AA batteries are said to give 40 hours of continues operation , with a Lithium cell providing back-up when it is turned off . |
| 24 | Before examining the statistical evidence linking education and health to economic growth , it is useful to review briefly the ways in which these two services are said to facilitate economic growth . |
| 25 | Such joints are said to pass most of the tests in the specifications for wood adhesives . |
| 26 | This contrast is used to explain why the Japanese are said to feel less class conscious than Westerners because vertical loyalties within companies , say , are more important than horizontal relations with other people who occupy the same position but who work for different companies . |
| 27 | There is ‘ classic ’ autism , and forms of mental handicap where the children are said to possess autistic tendencies . |
| 28 | Other property opportunities will open up when the Russian — and eventually the American , British and French — military finally vacate their extensive bases ( the British are said to occupy some particularly fine pieces of real estate ) . |
| 29 | According to 3Com , router administration is reduced through its Boundary Routing System Architecture — it says five to 10 times more remote site connections can be added without adding resources , complexity or risk — and Cascade 's switching technologies are said to produce cost-effective wide area network backbones that are easily managed . |
| 30 | A solution of Jeyes fluid diluted to the manufacturers ' instructions can be sprinkled on the floor when needed , or you could try Stable Boy — crystals from a volcanic rock called zeolite that are said to absorb damp and help horses who normally cough when they come out of their boxes or start work . |