Example sentences of "[noun prp] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France Telecom , Thomson Consumer Electronics SA , Alcatel NV and Matra SA are said to be clients . |
| 2 | Those born on a Friday are said to be marked out for special piety , which does not mean that they will be pious necessarily ; only that their natures are imbued with that proclivity . |
| 3 | Becky is said to be ‘ comfortable ’ in the special burns unit of Frenchay hospital , Bristol , where her brother is also being treated . |
| 4 | Praxsys is said to be ‘ leagues ahead ’ of Quorum Software , the Mac-on-RISC house that captured the limelight back at Uniforum — see opposite . |
| 5 | HOG members stress the group is concerned only with generic definitions , and whilst OSF is said to be taking a lead role in new work , HOG members have already agreed to endorse those previously established by the Network Management Forum . |
| 6 | Plenty of people skirted the area : in 1730 Whitehaven was said to be the third busiest port in England , after London and Bristol . |
| 7 | Kuwait was said to be deporting 50-100 Bedoun through Safwan to Iraq every week . |
| 8 | But Edward was said by his friends to have business sense , and to be able to make things work . |
| 9 | Mr and Mrs Key are said to be grief-stricken and still undergoing therapy after the loss of their baby sons . |
| 10 | As one might expect , West Germany has inherited the ability to maintain vast dossiers on people within its borders and , bearing in mind that some 8,000 spies working for East Germany and Russia are said to be operating in West Germany , there is certainly plenty for them to do . |
| 11 | Taiwan and Ireland are said to be preparing to halt the use of driftnets by June 30 next year . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Novell chairman Ray Noorda is said to be circulating a letter among industry executives asking them to be expert witnesses in the FTC case against Microsoft . |
| 13 | In one case — IBM 's AIX versions 3.1 and 3.2 — sar enquires of cache performance data brings up only a screenful of headings with no data — a problem IBM is said to be ‘ aware of ’ . |
| 14 | IBM is said to be late off the mark and may not get the chance to inject itself officially . |
| 15 | Fiat is said to be looking for a partner for its car business . |
| 16 | Bishop Lyfing of Crediton is said by Florence of Worcester to have been accused of being associated with Earl Godwin in the murder of the ætheling Alfred in 1036 , and one of his accusers was Archbishop Ælfric of York , who had designs on the bishopric of Worcester , given to Lyfing by Harold Harefoot as a reward for his support . |
| 17 | Alexander was said to be the only mortal Bucephalus would ever respect and the only one who was successful in saddling and mounting him ; with all other men , Bucephalus had sensed their greed and weakness and had spurned them . |
| 18 | And Bourne was said to be ‘ a well-built and pleasant market town , which has doubled its population during the last forty years ’ . |
| 19 | Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse . |
| 20 | His widow Jane was said to be ‘ inconsolable ’ as she was being comforted by friends . |
| 21 | A confidential meeting in Mexico City between the FMLN and Salvadorean business leaders in early July was said by rebel sources to have been " direct and productive " . |
| 22 | Maastricht was said to be a Dutch cheese or the European Court . |
| 23 | Refugee camps here in Amman are said to be crammed to capacity , the authorities are growing more and more concerned about the numbers of Asian refugees , Indians , Bangladeshis , Pakistanis , Philippinos and Thais . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On the one hand , Duna is said to be thinking about buying the rights to a publish a Hungarian or European version of an unnamed US Unix programmers title , with current circulation of 7,000 . |
| 26 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl is said by aides to favour stronger backing for the allies but feels constrained by empty coffers and by a constitutional provision which arguably bans the use of German forces outside the NATO area . |
| 27 | Mr Hussey was said to be defending himself aggressively . |
| 28 | After a two-hour operation to her face Vicky was said to be ‘ stable ’ in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 29 | In Bonn , Chancellor Helmut Kohl was said to be ‘ deeply shocked over the brutal repression of the justified and peaceful protests ’ . |
| 30 | Traditionally , Canada was said to be bound by the Canadian Pacific 's ribbon of steel . |