Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | But that is all : the Act fails to incorporate other safeguards said to be embodied in the pre-statutory warrant procedures . |
| 3 | Include a visit to Hound Tor with the fantastic rocky shapes said to be dogs converted to stone by witches . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They ended with loss-making Continental involvement and directors said to be drawing two lots of salaries and dividends for the same service . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , eighteen beds said to be available at the Peasholme Centre in York are already full . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ |
| 13 | Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Collection of stories said to be the missing prototype for Finnegans Wake . |
| 16 | As numbers of mortgage arrears and repossessions grow , especially in London and the Southeast , and with up to 10 per cent of mortgage borrowers said to be in minor arrears or postponed repayments , building societies and other lenders are being particularly careful to offer their borrowers help in paying . |
| 17 | It is offering unlimited loans said to be from Global Finance Corporation , of Delaware , America . |
| 18 | Accounting software house Sage Plc has finally launched the Macintosh version of its mid-range Sterling +2 package software , along with a revamped version of its MainLan peer-to-peer networking system and enhanced version of its Sovereign high end accounting system : the announcements were accompanied by the news that Sage Sterling +2 has now been included in the IT Recommended Product Scheme run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ; the Bookkeeper version of Sterling +2 for the Mac , available now , is £150 , the Accountant version is £350 ; MainLan 4.0 for MS-DOS and for Windows said to be faster and takes up 20% less memory than its predecessor is either £400 for the 16-bit starter kit boards or £200 with 8-bit boards ; the ‘ super enhanced ’ Sovereign 4.7 now has full EuroVAT reporting and improved profit and loss , stock take and help facilities and costs £350 for single users or £600 for multiple users . |
| 19 | Schedule 1 includes references to certain specified sums paid out or received by Abbey or Wessex , some of the moneys said to be ‘ in respect of charges which were not due and/or were inflated . |
| 20 | PRICELESS gems said to be from the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen were stolen from a car in south London yesterday . |
| 21 | In his Sept. 11 radio broadcast Iliescu also strongly condemned proposals said to be emanating from a joint Hungarian-Polish-Czechoslovakian working group for the economic integration of Transylvania ( home of Romania 's ethnic Hungarian minority ) into an economic space to be created by the three countries . |
| 22 | ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages . |
| 23 | And then in the mid eighteenth century the storm broke , when in 1754 the antiquary and historian William Goodall published An examination of the letters said to be written by Mary Queen of Scots to James earl of Bothwell ; shewing by intrinsick and extrinsick evidence that they are forgeries . |
| 24 | In meetings with UK Prime Minister John Major and French President Mitterrand Sheikh al Sabah also discussed financial matters and raised the question of the 2,242 Kuwaiti citizens said to be still held by Iraq . |
| 25 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 26 | Others said to be in the wings include Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley . |
| 27 | One of the older Gnomes , who had a face like a wrinkled nutcracker and bright twinkly eyes , asked would a bit of magic be of any use anywhere , because was n't magic a powerful thing when you had a difficulty , and the other Gnomes said to be sure it was . |
| 28 | During this same period the local police , courts and probation service were noting a rapid increase in offences involving the possession and supply of drugs and , more subtly , in the number of crimes involving offenders said to be or admitting to be heroin users . |
| 29 | fresh flowerheads or petals , for healing wounds , and to treat conjunctivitis ; leaves said to be a good remedy for the pain of a bee or wasp sting |
| 30 | Presumably each side would want to state its position about the quality/condition of the sample and the evidence would presumably be about other samples said to be of various qualities or conditions . |