Example sentences of "say [prep] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people may find it too exciting ; certainly , there is something to be said for being on the side of the road away from the steep drops into the valley , which means driving eastwards by this route and not westwards , or into Bigorre not out of it . |
| 2 | There is a natural logic to such a structure in that management can reasonably be said to be about making the best use of the resources available and , to this extent , is a normal part of the clinical process . |
| 3 | His poem ‘ Maud ’ is said to be about her and reveals how his advances , as the son of a country parson , were not approved of by her guardians . |
| 4 | The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top . |
| 5 | An important part of the discussion deals with the difficulty of deciding whether variation can be said to be between semantically equivalent forms which carry social meaning , or to encode an aspectual distinction ; this latter issue is treated in the context of a ( non-quantitative ) analysis of the semantic distinctions underlying tense and aspect marking ( see further 7.6 and 7.7 ) . |
| 6 | At Box all tesserae are said to be between 0.6 and 14.4 cm. sq . |
| 7 | All the men are said to be between 20 and 30 . |
| 8 | The youths were both said to be aged 16 to 18 , 5ft 7in to 5ft 8in tall , and one had the name Pete tattooed on his knuckles . |
| 9 | The man has not been named by police but was said to be aged 23 . |
| 10 | There can be said to be at least three groups of predator assemblage distinguishable by this form of analysis . |
| 11 | Talks were said to be at an advanced stage and ‘ going well ’ . |
| 12 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 13 | He is even said to be at liberty to play golf . |
| 14 | There can be said to be at least three main schools of management theory addressing the people problem : the classical school embodying the work of F. W. Taylor and Henri Fayol , the behaviourist school founded by Elton Mayo and the quantitative school which appears to have had its origins in the operations research techniques developed during World War Il . |
| 15 | This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . |
| 16 | For council staff , already weary from last years round of cuts , moral is now said to be at an all time low . |
| 17 | Royal College of Nursing members at the hospital had expressed worry over possible job losses and morale was said to be at a low ebb . |
| 18 | Lindsay Philpott , the Tory , is said to be at an even greater disadvantage than he would otherwise be because he lives in Cardiff . |
| 19 | The margins applied to the spot rate would be said to be at a premium , premium because it makes the US$ more expensive in terms of sterling to enable the cost to be passed on . |
| 20 | Party chairman Sir Norman Fowler is also said to be considering renting out part of the building in Westminster . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Apple has been highly sensitive about proprietary rights to its Windowing software , but is said to be considering striking a deal with Unix System Labs over the technology . |
| 23 | Control Data Corp is said to be considering taking over the development of Portable NetWare for the MIPS chip , sources claimed last week . |
| 24 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 25 | Remains of the chancel are said to be of the 12th century , and the tower was rebuilt in the 15th century and has three bells . |
| 26 | A B-tree is said to be of order m when every node has at least m/2 children , and at most m children , except the root and the leaf nodes . |
| 27 | Thus Regulus ( 1.3 ) is said to be of the first magnitude , while Castor ( 1.6 ) is not . |
| 28 | Next I proceed to what may be called conservative Christologies , Christologies in which the maleness of Christ is said to be of the very essence of Christology . |
| 29 | That conception , for all the problems it raises , can not reasonably be said to be of the same character . |
| 30 | For example , if pottery from a pit is said to be of a particular date by the specialist , a decision has to be taken as to how , if at all , that date relates to the pit in which the pottery was found . |