Example sentences of "it be say [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is said to produce less emissions than conventional " power-from-tyre " plants AEA , together with engineers Herbert Beven , intend to market the plant , known as a " Multi-Purpose Disposer " . |
| 32 | It is said to help people in sleeping , but whilst it may get people off to sleep more quickly it can lead to waking later at night . |
| 33 | It is said to work with the Tivoli Systems Inc management environment , HP VUE and IBM NetView . |
| 34 | It is said to work by blocking the metering pulses that charge calls to the customer 's account . |
| 35 | It is said to provide true source code compatibility and allow applications to be developed on either platform . |
| 36 | It is said to model and coordinate all components of a work process intuitively , including the people , procedures and data , and offers real-time access to the status of things . |
| 37 | It is said to show how the club has changed along with the community of South-east London . |
| 38 | It is said to offer independent hotels the kind of exposure which hotels in big groups can derive from international booking systems — owned , typically , by the big airlines . |
| 39 | It was said to prey solely on virtuous and obedient women and , because its food was so scarce , the chiveface was always hungry and appeared to be only skin and bone . |
| 40 | It was said to drink the milk of at least nine cows daily . |
| 41 | It was said to dine exclusively on the bodies of hen-pecked husbands . |
| 42 | Animism was likewise low and primitive because it was said to imply that souls inhabit animals and trees just as they inhabit men . |
| 43 | Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value . |
| 44 | It was said to have brought new expressions of trust and gratitude for the Führer , ‘ the greatest gift for the German people ’ . |
| 45 | It was said to have been made from a nail of the True Cross with ornamentation of gold enamel and jewels . |
| 46 | It was said to have been given to prisoners as poison from the time of Pliny , and most references agree that it was also the plant with which Socrates was poisoned . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | First , it was said to have a unique mechanism of action . |
| 49 | For his contempt in abetting such an action his temporalities were distrained until he did prefer the royal clerk — such a humiliation that it was said to have occasioned his death . |
| 50 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |
| 51 | At the beginning of time it was said to have arisen from the primeval waters , the waters of Chaos . |
| 52 | It was said to have two sets of strings only , at 8' pitch , and , on the evidence of its appearance , it was to be dated to the first quarter of the 18th century . |
| 53 | He added , however , that it was said to have broken up without achieving anything . |
| 54 | Indeed , this reluctance has been so marked that on occasions , as in 1985 , it was said to produce ‘ round-tripping ’ . |