Example sentences of "be say [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 680 pastors that serve the region are said to preach to well-attended churches on Sundays . |
| 2 | Neo-evolutionism provides an historical context for the analysis of traditional and modern societies , in the sense that modern societies are said to evolve from traditional ones through the processes of social differentiation . |
| 3 | Virtually every single item on the list of what ‘ we ’ as English , French , Germans or Czechs are said to have in common , can be acquired by immigrants who wish to do so , except physical appearance , where this differs very markedly from the norm of the receiving population . |
| 4 | Rural communities in Wales or the North of England , Italian immigrant communities in London , or Pakistani communities in Rochdale , working-class communities in Bethnal Green or Liverpool , French Canadians in Quebec ; all these patterns and many others can be said to exist within industrial societies and yet do not clearly conform to the model presented earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ If by ‘ ability ’ we mean ‘ measured intelligence ’ and by ‘ opportunity ’ access to grammar schools , then opportunity may be said to stand in close relationship with ability in both these areas to-day . ’ |
| 6 | Given the freedom which the parties enjoy in a common law system in the matter of gathering evidence , their resort to foreign procedures could not be said to interfere with English procedures or the control over those procedures which the English court would exercise . |
| 7 | Those universities featuring highest in this list can be said to concentrate on local research . |
| 8 | Even sentences such as " Men exist " and " Dragons are fictional " were said to offend against certain logical proprieties and were replaced by suitably quantified paraphrases . |
| 9 | First , the energy budget of predators is said to decrease with increasing weight , so that lions require ten times their own weight , whereas shrews require 100 times their own weight . |
| 10 | In his memoirs he answers the charge : ‘ Some Tories , like me , are criticised for this supposed failing ( of being patrician ) which is said to lead to moral softness , in contrast with the toughness of those who have had to fight their way in life . |
| 11 | Within the Commons it is said to lead to constant petty squabbles ; the mindless negation of government through excessive ( and purely partisan and irresponsible ) opposition ; the oversimplification of complex issues into two ( and only two ) contrasting alternatives ; and the grand clash and confrontation of the cult of debate . |
| 12 | The encryption algorithm , nicknamed Skipjack , is intended to remain confidential , but is said to work on 64-bit blocks , like the DES algorithm , but with 32 rounds of scrambling as compared to DES 's 16 . |
| 13 | In particular , the combination of the two companies ' technologies is said to result in wide area network architectures that are highly scalable , simple to administer , and cost-efficient . |
| 14 | This crisis , caused by successful damages actions against doctors , is said to result in defensive medicine . |
| 15 | Yet the image of social harmony between Shetlanders and incomers which was said to exist in certain localities four or five years ago should not be over-estimated . |