Example sentences of "[noun sg] say [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Whether the tape said to be in the possession of a national newspaper is genuine or not seemed last night almost irrelevant . |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The unit is going to Merisel ( UK ) Ltd for a price said to be just over £500,000 . |
| 10 | all parts of considerable use in liver troubles , a good diuretic and tonic , also mild laxative ; juice said to be effective in treating warts |
| 11 | Mr Buckley , of Speke , Merseyside , was last night said to be ‘ very poorly ’ in hospital . |
| 12 | Fellow undergraduates and tutors at the University were last night said to be stunned by the news of his death . |
| 13 | Keith Pringle was last night said to be ‘ stable ’ in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was hit in the leg and was last night said to be in a serious condition . |
| 16 | Although the people of Stowey had by degrees reconciled themselves to the presence of Coleridge , who lived in their midst with his wife and child , Wordsworth 's arrival at remote Alfoxden , with a young woman said to be his sister , provided much greater scope for speculation . |
| 17 | Linda Hardy , ( 43 ) — who was so badly beaten that police initially thought she had been shot — was this morning said to be ‘ critical but stable ’ in London 's Royal Free Hospital , which has a neurosurgical unit specialising in treating severe head injuries . |
| 18 | Detectives in Turkey have been questioning Mrs Hilali and a man said to be her adopted son . |
| 19 | Police had been alerted about a man said to be in a depressed state who was reported missing from the Carousel Hostel , Marton Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | Still , I had happier memories of Enniskillen : of the Horseshoe Lounge in the Railway Hotel ( now an hotel without a railway ) and a group named ‘ Country Comrades ’ , who played Irish , Scottish and hillbilly tunes fast and slow , while the crowd whooped and danced merrily ; of hillside fields and haycocks ; of the Bronze Age burial chamber said to be a giant 's grave ; and of tales of the local footpack 's exploits among the Ulster foxes . |
| 21 | It emerged that a video camera had been trained on part of the premises of the night club and on an area where an incident preceding the arrival of the police and part of the incident said to be the violent disorder had taken place . |
| 22 | This case arises from an undercover police operation said to be unique in this country . |
| 23 | The figure is the amount said to be raised from the sale of council homes under the Conservative 's right-to-buy legislation but which local authorities are not allowed to spend . |
| 24 | ‘ Doctor says to be quick , ’ repeated Rose , ‘ and he 's in our Buildings . |
| 25 | This being established , the question becomes : at what stage is the information said to be known by the groups in question ? |
| 26 | The signs at first sight seem to be completely different from those of other scripts found in Minoan Crete , and they are often for this reason said to be an import : the disc itself is sometimes explained away as a foreign curiosity . |
| 27 | The Maréchal de Cadenet , a French ambassador on a special mission who stayed in London for only a few days in 1621 , was given by James I jewellery said to be worth £2,500 , while the duke of Buckingham , the king 's favourite , presented him with ponies and four albino falcons , the latter much prized by huntsmen . |
| 28 | The shaft widens as it descends to form an immense cavern said to be large enough to contain a cathedral . |
| 29 | Willis Faber , the insurance broker said to be on the verge of selling its 20.5 per cent shareholding in MG to a potential bidder , was unchanged at 242p . |
| 30 | Since 1982 the government has made twenty-nine changes to the way in which the unemployed are counted , each change resulting in a downward shift in the number said to be unemployed . |