Example sentences of "be say [prep] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Key Sun employees in the areas of programming and signal processing are said to be moving to the new company , which is claimed to have made breakthroughs in security and ease of use . |
| 2 | As one might expect , West Germany has inherited the ability to maintain vast dossiers on people within its borders and , bearing in mind that some 8,000 spies working for East Germany and Russia are said to be operating in West Germany , there is certainly plenty for them to do . |
| 3 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 4 | Forty well organised criminal groups are said to be smuggling works of art out of Russia . |
| 5 | Some are said to be getting cold feet . |
| 6 | Promoters , The Mean Fiddler Group , are said to be seeking compensation for non-fulfilment of his contract as well as a separate settlement for bringing their organisation into disrepute . |
| 7 | The defence secretary has announced further cuts to Britain 's armed forces , including the cancellation of a nuclear missile system for the R A F. The decisions came as MPs warned that cuts the treasury are said to be seeking , would leave Britain unable to defend itself . |
| 8 | Local authorities have no powers except those conferred upon them by statute , and when they take action which is not sanctioned by the law they are said to be acting ultra vires ( beyond the powers ) . |
| 9 | Thus some things that are said to be going to happen , do happen . |
| 10 | The branch manager jobs are said to be going as part of a reorganisation which BIFU believes will lead to more job losses . |
| 11 | The 300 surviving Uru Eu Wau Wau Indians , whose lands were opened up to outside exploitation by the road project , are said to be suffering from diseases brought in by illegal miners . |
| 12 | Other Unix suppliers are said to be treating the IBM-Hewlett-Packard effort very cautiously — some are worried that it may turn out to be a Trojan horse for proprietary technologies . |
| 13 | Other Unix suppliers are said to be treating the IBM/HP effort very cautiously — some are worried that it may turn out to be a trojan horse for proprietary technologies ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 14 | Now further suitors , such as the American glass maker PPG International and the building products conglomerate MB Caradon , are said to be lying in wait . |
| 15 | Up to twenty thousand a day are being allowed to cross into Jordan from Iraq , but thousands more are said to be waiting just across the border . |
| 16 | Taiwan and Ireland are said to be preparing to halt the use of driftnets by June 30 next year . |
| 17 | Both television companies are said to be losing a lot of money on baseball . |
| 18 | That is easier said than done for cash-strapped City , who are said to be losing £10,000 a week . |
| 19 | Some Arab volunteers are said to be making trouble for Tajikistan across Afghanistan 's northern border . |
| 20 | Meantime Microsoft Corp and SoftPC house Insignia Solutions Ltd , the Queen 's Award winner from High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire and Mountain View , California , are said to be planning a pre-emptive strike against SunSelect 's Windows-on-Unix WABI system this week , pitting a Microsoft-backed Insignia SoftPC against it in the market . |
| 21 | German firms are said to be dumping in Eastern Europe waste which it would be costly for them to dispose of in Germany itself , including radioactive uranium , used tyres and banned pesticides . |
| 22 | PLATFORM-soled shoes are said to be coming back . |
| 23 | Artists whose cash-pressed dealers have ended their stipends are said to be climbing on board . |
| 24 | Others are said to be re-examining their positions in light of the latest industry consolidations and have baulked at a large scale media event to mark the signing of a common Unix document . |
| 25 | Companies which utilize an aggressive sales policy , based on personal selling , are said to be adopting a push strategy . |
| 26 | Advance orders are said to be pouring in for the LP Portrait and single Blue Days . |
| 27 | Although some of this work may be informed by certain theoretical readings — Irigaray , Cixous , Kristeva , Judith Butler , or some of the work by Italian feminists on the mother-daughter relationship — there is a real sense in which these artists could be said to be producing theory visually . |
| 28 | this suggests a recognition that cultural production is itself a form of knowledge or , as Hilary Robinson has put it in a recent issue of WAM ( No49 ) in discussing women 's body art , that artists could be said to be producing theory visually ’ . |
| 29 | Although both could be said to be reacting against the ossification of Stalinism , the subjectivist and ultra-objectivist paths that they followed were antithetical . |
| 30 | In general … rejection appears to increase with the development of disability and the continuation of caring … only a handful of these disabled mothers would be said to be receiving tending in a context which was predominantly loving … |