Example sentences of "say to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | A pronunciation of a word is said to be assembled when it is built up piecemeal from its component letters . |
| 32 | This , in fact insuperable , difficulty is said to be overcome by proposing that mental phenomena and brain processes are the same stuff viewed within different theoretical frameworks . |
| 33 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 34 | This is an easy way of getting light into a garage , and the glazing material used by Cardale is said to be 100 times stronger than glass . |
| 35 | Thus some things that are said to be going to happen , do happen . |
| 36 | The plant is said to be a state-of-the-art facility that forms transistors onto large glass substrates , in a class-100 clean room that has the similar level of air cleanliness to those used in the manufacture of LSI chips . |
| 37 | This points to Eleanor of Provence , Edward 's mother and consort of Henry III , whose reputation is as bad as that of Eleanor of Castile is good — though not for David Gordon , who seems to think that because she 's said to be ‘ of Provence ’ , this puts her above suspicion . |
| 38 | If BA can resell $300m of its United investment — ideally to US citizens - then its remaining equity share could be said to be only 21 per cent , airline officials in New York argue . |
| 39 | The embassy gardener is said to be planning ‘ to start again' . |
| 40 | More disturbing still for Hong Kong businessmen , the governor of Guangdong , Ye Xuanping , is said to be under pressure to leave the province to take a new job as vice-premier in Peking . |
| 41 | Allied-Lyons was also said to be on the Goldsmith hit list . |
| 42 | Frontrunners are said to be British Aerospace and Daimler Benz . |
| 43 | British Aerospace is said to be one of the key contenders to mount a rescue bid for Ferranti , a vital subcontractor providing navigational and radar equipment for BAe 's military aircraft . |
| 44 | Inside the embassy , conditions were said to be worse that ever , with intense pressure on sanitary facilities . |
| 45 | The informal ceiling placed on share option deals by institutional investors is said to be one reason . |
| 46 | Police released a list of survivors : Henry Wyllie , 20 , Helen Lawrie , 48 , and Paula Gaunt , 28 , were discharged from hospital after treatment ; Dawn Howbridge , 19 , and Martin Baptie , 19 , were said to be satisfactory in hospital . |
| 47 | Other classy convertibles come from Mercedes-Benz , Porsche and Aston Martin , whose Volante , listed at £120,000 , is said to be changing hands at over £200,000 . |
| 48 | The King is said to be a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu . |
| 49 | Bruges goes to bed early and can hardly be said to be throbbing with night-life . |
| 50 | One of these was said to be a £5m loan to Raper 's master company , the Hong Kong and Netherlands based Gasco Group . |
| 51 | Adia , the Swiss group , is said to be keen to buy chunks of Saatchi . |
| 52 | Southeastern Asset Management , a US group , was said to be on the verge of selling on its 10 per cent stake . |
| 53 | A TEACHER who was sacked because some of his lessons were said to be too sexually explicit has won £12,000 compensation for unfair dismissal . |
| 54 | Union Assurance de Paris , which has 19.2 per cent , is said to be talking to Sun 's other big shareholder , the South African controlled Trans-Atlantic Holdings . |
| 55 | Israel was also said to be determined that the agenda for a meeting with Palestinians be restricted to agreeing details of the conduct of elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 56 | As in previous attacks on the protesters , the real agents provocateurs are said to be the Western media egging on the rabble . |
| 57 | The big question now is how soon the blond from Henley will eclipse the blonde from Finchley , who is said to be planning a speech which would make Joan of Arc sound hesitant . |
| 58 | Before it left , the UN mission compiled information on 1,100 people who had been detained , were alleged to have been detained or who were said to be missing , back to 1977 . |
| 59 | Several big British companies are said to be ‘ extremely interested ’ . |
| 60 | Although prices have not been announced , Land-Rover is said to be keen that the turbodiesel Discovery should undercut the £17,859 Mitsubishi Shogun five-door turbodiesel . |