Example sentences of "[is] say [prep] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said to be a nervous fish and it will probably benefit from the presence of other fish — acting as dither fish — to give it confidence . |
| 2 | This artist 's impression is said to be a good likeness of the attacker who 's thought to be in his late 30s and has a pot belly . |
| 3 | The Labour candidate , Mrs Sylvia Heal , who rarely departed from script , is said to be a personal friend of Mr Kinnock . |
| 4 | Recall from Chapter 6 that an equilibrium is said to be a stable one when economic forces tend to push the market towards it . |
| 5 | There is said to be a rough period of about 100 days , but I have never been able to confirm this . |
| 6 | As recently as 1980 Cash became addicted to morphine after an operation to crushed ribs sustained in a fight with an ostrich ( his home in Hendersonville , Tennessee , is said to be a real menagerie ) . |
| 7 | In most countries the other sexually transmitted diseases are not reported , but , where they are , there is said to be a general increase in all infections , particularly non-specific urethritis . |
| 8 | The term " Urgonian " has become almost a dirty word in Cretaceous stratigraphy , for it is not one of the internationally accepted stage names and it is said to be a diachronous , southern facies . |
| 9 | Many baby orangs are caught in the forests of Indonesia and taken by ship to Taiwan , where they are sold as pets , shop props and showbiz gimmicks — so many , in fact , that there is said to be a greater density of orangs in Taiwan 's capital city , Taipei , than in their own habitat . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Stateside gossip has it that Hitachi Ltd will announce a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ within the next 30 days : possibilities are either OSF/1 on its existing M-series mainframes , or the first fruits of its efforts with Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC , which is said to be a RISC-based Unix co-processor for the IBM-compatible mainframes . |
| 12 | There is said to be a Slovene General 4,000 Serbs 4,000 White Russians Probably the same as those which attempted to surrender to us two nights ago . |
| 13 | It is said to be a luminous and dynamic nature capable of independent existence apart from its physical counterpart . |
| 14 | If the probability of being included is equal for each member of the relevant population then the sample is said to be a random one . |
| 15 | The enclosure movement gave us much of what is said to be the traditional English landscape . |
| 16 | It is said to be the only tide mill in western Europe that is still operating . |
| 17 | If a fine is not enough , custody is said to be the only adequate penalty . |
| 18 | A Localised Puddle of Indifference I guess Gary Gibson is going to have to do more routes just to keep people 's minds ticking over during winter ) HVS , is said to be the best of the bunch and worth a couple of stars . |
| 19 | Floating is said to be the perfect way of easing tensions and calming the mind . |
| 20 | Cointreu is said to be the seventh most popular liqueur in the world . |
| 21 | Mr no doubt of what is said to be the divine preference for called three . |
| 22 | The Emperor Karl Franz is said to be the greatest statesman in the Old World . |
| 23 | Springfield Mill , east of the town centre , dates from the year of Trafalgar , and is said to be the earliest paper mill powered by steam , having a Boulton and Watt beam engine installed when it was opened for business . |
| 24 | It is said to be the smallest complete X Terminal design available , covering just under 50 square inches of broad space . |
| 25 | C. Itoh is said to be the largest creditor , having lent Asahi Juken around ¥50 billion . |
| 26 | The sundial on a cottage in North End was made in the 1840s and is said to be the largest in England with its twelve ft diameter . |
| 27 | Dating from the seventeenth century , it is said to be the largest antique one-handed clock in existence . |
| 28 | It is said to be the longest-lived of the British dairy and dual-purpose breeds ; it is also hardy and with a low incidence of metabolic disease . |
| 29 | This is said to be the first house built in the village . |
| 30 | In Florida , Miami 's POSLogic Corp is soon to announce its first product , the POSLogic 5000 Point of Sale System , which is said to be the first Unix-based system to incorporate both hardware and software as a fully integrated product , although NCR Corp , which has been slipping Unix processors in under its point-of-sale systems for several years , while making Unix invisible to the retailer , might demur . |