Example sentences of "[noun] say [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ( 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 .
3 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 .
4 However , eighteen beds said to be available at the Peasholme Centre in York are already full .
5 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 .
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
8 Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration .
9 all parts of considerable use in liver troubles , a good diuretic and tonic , also mild laxative ; juice said to be effective in treating warts
10 Fellow undergraduates and tutors at the University were last night said to be stunned by the news of his death .
11 So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ?
12 This case arises from an undercover police operation said to be unique in this country .
13 Doctor says to be quick , ’ repeated Rose , ‘ and he 's in our Buildings .
14 The shaft widens as it descends to form an immense cavern said to be large enough to contain a cathedral .
15 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 .
16 And is not the creation of a complementary marine park said to be imminent ?
17 ( Local GP said to be good )
18 ICI 's pharmaceutical company in America is investing $24.7m ( £14m ) at its Newark , Delaware , complex to handle production of Merrem , an injectible drug said to be capable of treating sepsis and infections contracted by people taking leukaemia treatment .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Welsh Office inspector Brian Evans said to be able to agree to the council 's plan , he had to be sure that the diverted route would not be less convenient .
22 This criticism is part of a wider attack on the use of classification of functions as a criterion for deciding issues such as the availability of judicial remedies to control administrative action ( the remedy of certiorari was at one time said to be available only if the decision-maker was under a duty to act ‘ judicially ’ ) , or the applicability of the rules of natural justice in particular circumstances ( sometimes said to apply only to ‘ judicial functions ’ ) .
23 And TP+ , Gresham 's transaction processing technology said to be complementary to teleprocessing managers such as Tuxedo , Top-End and Encina , has been integrated into Dun & Bradstreet financial accounting software which is now beginning to ship .
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