Example sentences of "[noun] say [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the year he will again keep all-night vigil in a couple of the NorthEast castles said to be haunted . |
| 2 | With plenty of stock said to be on offer , the market price quickly dropped back 36 to £11.05 in the wake of Wall Street 's decline . |
| 3 | Whether the tape said to be in the possession of a national newspaper is genuine or not seemed last night almost irrelevant . |
| 4 | But that is all : the Act fails to incorporate other safeguards said to be embodied in the pre-statutory warrant procedures . |
| 5 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 6 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 7 | Include a visit to Hound Tor with the fantastic rocky shapes said to be dogs converted to stone by witches . |
| 8 | Roh 's entourage included Cabinet ministers , diplomats and the heads of 20 major companies said to be interested in joint ventures in the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | The drawing was recently purchased by Colnaghi for £2,500 from Sotheby 's where it was catalogued as ‘ Roman School , seventeenth-century : portrait said to be by Bernini ’ and estimated at £600–800 . |
| 10 | Lines said to be under threat in the North allegedly include : the historic Settle-Carlisle route , Bishop Auckland to Darlington , Thornaby to Saltburn , Whitby to Thornaby and Hull to Filey . |
| 11 | They ended with loss-making Continental involvement and directors said to be drawing two lots of salaries and dividends for the same service . |
| 12 | A red semi-regular variable ; range 5.0 to 7.6 , period said to be about 130 days though I find little evidence of this . |
| 13 | After a great deal of pressure exerted upon him by Dempsey and others , the husband agreed to guarantee the indebtedness on the Dempsey accounts for a limited period said to be ‘ only about four days , ’ and to secure this by a charge on his house in favour of the bank . |
| 14 | UK operations , which deal with just over half of the company 's clients , saw a steady 6% growth in revenues said to be underpinned by a healthy 12% improvement in exports . |
| 15 | In contrast to this is the " new " demand for temporary workers said to be experienced , or likely to be experienced on an increasing scale , by enterprises in the manufacturing sector . |
| 16 | Chapman , incensed that anyone could sully the good name of Huddersfield , arranged for Islip 's transfer to Birmingham , at an undisclosed fee said to be ‘ staggering ’ . |
| 17 | However , eighteen beds said to be available at the Peasholme Centre in York are already full . |
| 18 | On Nov. 12 Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said to be concerned about alienating international opinion were quoted in Tokyo as saying that they would press the government " to think carefully about our future plans " to transport more plutonium to Japan over the next decade . |
| 19 | The most that can be said is that the majority of individuals said to be non-right handed still show left hemisphere language representation ( Annett , Hudson , and Turner , 1974 ; Fleminger and Bunce , 1975 ; Clyma , 1975 ) . |
| 20 | Each field had its own small barn for wintering stock , a custom said to be typical of the early Norse settlers that came to this dale , leaving on the landscape the marks of their hands and on the speech the sound of their tongue . |
| 21 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 22 | Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration . |
| 23 | The unit is going to Merisel ( UK ) Ltd for a price said to be just over £500,000 . |
| 24 | The subject was Norwich even although it was the conduct of Winchester and of persons said to be associated with them which was in issue . |
| 25 | Collection of stories said to be the missing prototype for Finnegans Wake . |
| 26 | all parts of considerable use in liver troubles , a good diuretic and tonic , also mild laxative ; juice said to be effective in treating warts |
| 27 | Mr Buckley , of Speke , Merseyside , was last night said to be ‘ very poorly ’ in hospital . |
| 28 | Fellow undergraduates and tutors at the University were last night said to be stunned by the news of his death . |
| 29 | Keith Pringle was last night said to be ‘ stable ’ in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 30 | The surviving pupils are Emma Hartley , 16 , who was last night said to be improving in intensive care in Weymouth General Hospital ; Joanna Willis , 16 , Samantha Stansby , 17 , and Marie Rendle , 17 , all listed as stable and comfortable . |