Example sentences of "say [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I would imagine that the aim is for the English retrainer of the French teacher of English , say to be fully bilingual ( however defined ) and qualified to do the job , though my guess is that this will not in fact always be possible . |
| 2 | He 's said to be acutely depressed , and is also thought to have a stomach ulcer . |
| 3 | At the time when the income of many of the top charities is said to be either static , or to have fallen , it 's essential for public in the private sector , do not forsake their supporting role . |
| 4 | Some 10,000 Nigerians , who were said to be either illegal immigrants or Nigerians who had volunteered to return , were repatriated in mid-October , prompting an official protest from the Nigerian government which alleged that the deportees had been mistreated ; the opposition Gabonese Progress Party also criticized the action as a breach of human rights . |
| 5 | Bourque and Grossholtz ( 1984 ) argue that the acceptance of ‘ masculinity as ideal political behaviour ’ has dire consequences for studying women : the unquestioned assumption that the political attitudes , behaviour and preferences of men define mature political behaviour means that when women do not match these they are said to be either apolitical or politically naive . |
| 6 | The picture enhancement feature is called H.261 Plus , and is said to be particularly effective at lower data rates in the 128Kbps to 384Kbps range , although it operates at speeds from 64Kbps to 2.048Mbps . |
| 7 | The system is said to be particularly useful for industrial and scientific applications like molecular modelling , computer animation , robotics control . |
| 8 | He is said to be particularly strong on heritage . |
| 9 | Trade and Industry Secretary Michael Heseltine was said to be particularly concerned about the adverse impact Dan-Air 's closure would have on services at Gatwick , where it was the largest operator with 24.3pc of the slots . |
| 10 | Thus , for a short interlude , the religion of the monarch could be said to be neither papist nor Protestant ; and while it was safe to admit to either persuasion , it was wise to support neither too vigorously . |
| 11 | ‘ Given a relation R , the attribute B is said to be functionally dependent on attribute A if at every instant of time each value of A has no more than one value of B associated with it in the relation R. ’ |
| 12 | Tony Blair , Labour 's Employment Secretary , is said to be privately impressed that fewer days are now lost to strikes than at any time in the past 60 years . |
| 13 | Suzanne , who had also been burned by cigarettes , is said to be critically ill . |
| 14 | It is in this sense that monopoly is said to be economically inefficient , and to misallocate resources through the restriction of output . |
| 15 | An SBU was taken to be any subsidiary business interest of the group which could be said to be largely separable and could be treated as having a commercial life of its own . |
| 16 | A natural monopoly in such a position is said to be not sustainable . |
| 17 | The FA-18 is said to be not well-suited to Switzerland , where fast aircraft find mountains looming up alarmingly soon . |
| 18 | In this case the liquids are said to be partially miscible . |
| 19 | If a business makes both exempt and taxable supplies , it is said to be partially exempt and will be able to recover only part of the input VAT . |
| 20 | Claimed to be more user friendly is a product from Interpet , Pond Balance , which is said to be environmentally safe and actually encourage plant growth . |
| 21 | Because a flat tangent space can always be drawn locally to any point in a Riemann space , Riemann spaces are said to be locally flat ( or locally Euclidean ) . |
| 22 | If only one vector x exists for which Ax = 0 , A is said to be simply degenerate , or to have simple degeneracy ; if more than one such vector x exists , A has multiple degeneracy . |
| 23 | It is said to be slightly yellowish , though I have never seen any colour in it either with the naked eye or with binoculars . |
| 24 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 25 | CELEX is open to the public and is available to subscribers by network , although that is said to be rather difficult to use . |
| 26 | One well-known television personality is said to be rather hard on the teleprompter operators . |
| 27 | They are said to be generally positive to the takeover but still need to achieve certain comfort levels . |
| 28 | Players are said to be equally solid in their support for the union 's current case . |
| 29 | And , let it be noted , if 1920 marked the high tide of Bukharin 's leftism , then it can be said to be equally true of the Bolsheviks as a whole , Lenin included . |
| 30 | It was said to be strongly critical of her role in its publication , her relationship with her husband and her role within the Royal Family . |