Example sentences of "say [not/n't] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand , SSAP 12 ( which is directly concerned with depreciation ) is said not to be relevant to local authorities .
2 The buyer is said not to be one of the large five record companies — Thorn EMI of the UK , Sony , Warner , Polygram and Bertelsman — which between them dominate 70 per cent of world sales .
3 He was taken to Airedale General Hospital , Keighley , where his condition was said not to be serious .
4 They are explicitly said not to be fearful .
5 Dick Turpin used the moor , but was said not to be fond of it , possibly because of the competition .
6 That was not so ; the questions answered included those which were material and those said not to be relevant might well have become so .
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