Example sentences of "[adv] said [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenya has about one million flamingos living around lakes Nakuru and Bogoria , a major tourist attraction , and the species ' survival is not said to be threatened by the epidemic , which is expected to die down in about a month . |
| 2 | Many fund managers are still said to be considering their next move . |
| 3 | Texan Steve Wyatt is also said to be sending along something . |
| 4 | Israel was also said to be determined that the agenda for a meeting with Palestinians be restricted to agreeing details of the conduct of elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 5 | Nearly 3,000 pieces of real estate were also said to be affected , most belonging to the FLN but some belonging to the now dissolved Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
| 6 | Potential competitors such as the hot-shot Mac-to-Unix people at Quorum Software , who might eventually find their market niche too narrow , are also said to be watching . |
| 7 | The company is also said to be having difficulty moving a significant amount of lower-end Sparcstation series 10s out of the channel and into end-user sites . |
| 8 | NEC is also said to be negotiating with various US relational database vendors to put their products up under NEC 's version of Unix System V.4 . |
| 9 | Heritage Secretary Peter Brooke is also said to be planning a number of smaller cash payouts to keep punters ' attention . |
| 10 | It 's also said to be making Microsoft Mail interoperate with Unix E-Mail . |
| 11 | The company is also said to be cancelling personal computer-based projects and turning its resources elsewhere . |
| 12 | Since it joined in 1980 Japan has listed only four sites for protection and one of these , Lake Utonai on the northern island of Hokkaido , is now said to be threatened by secret plans to build a 40-kilometre flood control canal . |
| 13 | Other US nuclear plants are now said to be studying their fuel pool cooling . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Germany 's employer , trade and industry associations said they had formed a committee to fight xenophobia , which is now said to be putting off foreigners from investing in the country 's impoverished East . |
| 15 | Let us hope that the Danes will vote ‘ No ’ in their referendum on June 2 , thus forcing all members to renegotiate the treaty , as many of them are now said to be having second thoughts of their own . |
| 16 | Already linked with top Italian clubs Roma and Juventus , Platt is now said to be booked for a £5.7 million summer move to Napoli . |
| 17 | England midfielder Platt , already linked with Roma and Juventus , is now said to be booked for a £5.7m summer move to Napoli . |
| 18 | Rough Trade , for instance , had to dip into the piggy bank to move into the American market , where they 're now said to be pulling out . |
| 19 | One type suggests that it is simply the frequencies with which the separate features occur ; a ‘ prototype ’ is often said to be formed from the most commonly occurring features ( thus we form mental prototypes of dog , tree , car , and so on ) . |
| 20 | Just as a player is often said to be struggling to justify a big fee . |
| 21 | He is often said to be fixing a ‘ tariff ’ period ; and there is no harm in using that expression provided that one realises that it is the Home Secretary 's tariff , not the judges ' tariff . |
| 22 | " Biased language " is language which favours one group of the population at the expense of another ; the group not favoured is then said to be marginalised or derogated . |
| 23 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |