Example sentences of "is say " in BNC.
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| 31 | VITALITE Light is a sunflower oil spread which is said to be high in polyunsaturated fat , and low in saturated fat and cholesterol . |
| 32 | AMERICAN ring doughnuts from The Delicious Donut Co are made from a flour which is said to give them a light , fluffy , and non-greasy consistency . |
| 33 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 34 | It might also help to make a note of your doctor 's answers as a reminder of what is said , for example about any medicines you should take . |
| 35 | And they stare , ca n't stop , they know what is said of the claws , the biting words from her jaws , and a shiver tightens the pores of their hairless flesh . |
| 36 | It is said that prior to birth the angels instruct the child in full knowledge of life and the universe . |
| 37 | He suffers still , even if the widow 's life is said to be ‘ waning ’ , her eyes ‘ tear-reddened ’ , her freedom blighted — along with her happiness . |
| 38 | It is said that his influence came through his extraordinary power , both learned and ‘ uncanny ’ , to rearrange suggestively the letters of the divine Name ( the Tetragrammaton : YHWH ) , which are so sacrosanct that they are considered to be unpronounceable . |
| 39 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 40 | The human mind — which , from this viewpoint , is the brain — is said to work on the same plan as a computer , with operations being carried out on physical symbols . |
| 41 | A pronunciation of a word is said to be assembled when it is built up piecemeal from its component letters . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Dauberval is said to have borrowed steps and gestures from such people to give his ballet greater reality . |
| 44 | Joseph Truman , ‘ based on papers now lost ’ , is said to have set up business as a brewer in 1666 , the year of the Great Fire of London . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | The DACs give the function OUT1/SCALE to scale each half cycle to the same magnitude , which is said to provide a 20dB increase in loudness , subjectively , with none of the usual speech compression problems . |
| 48 | In admiring expositions revolutionary rhetoric is apparent : Derrida is said to have subverted Western thought , and called in question the customary concepts of philosophy , literature , and criticism . |
| 49 | Yet one picks it up , in hints and implications , in the not-quite-concealed exasperation of polite administrators , in the raised eyebrows and brief knowing smiles of senior academics on committees ; indeed , it is as much a matter of what is significantly not said , as of what is said ; in poststructuralist terms , of lacunae , vides , silences . |
| 50 | The buyer is said not to be one of the large five record companies — Thorn EMI of the UK , Sony , Warner , Polygram and Bertelsman — which between them dominate 70 per cent of world sales . |
| 51 | The embassy gardener is said to be planning ‘ to start again' . |
| 52 | Mr Scargill is said by sources in the National Union of Mineworkers to be putting his name forward for the Barnsley West and Penistone constituency . |
| 53 | The second Vatican Council is said , at least by English Catholics , to have been the culmination of Newman 's ideas . |
| 54 | Dark , hard and faintly bitter , it is said to have the side-effect of lowering blood-pressure , unlike most other things in Hong Kong . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | They lead privileged lives in official residences , are driven everywhere in official cars , buy from special shops and , it is said , have unpleasant facts screened from them by fawning officials . |
| 59 | The informal ceiling placed on share option deals by institutional investors is said to be one reason . |
| 60 | The date is said to have been chosen to thwart those taking precautions by adjusting computer clocks , which trigger the virus , to avoid the notorious date . |