Example sentences of "say [prep] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NO WONDER Squidgy is said to be writing more letters these days . |
| 2 | NCR Corp 's total revenues , including sales to other AT&T units , fell 3.9% to $1,480m , but the company is said to be seeing strong orders for its products . |
| 3 | NCR Corp 's total revenues , including sales to other AT&T units , fell 3.9% to $1,480m , but the company is said to be seeing strong orders for its products . |
| 4 | The illustration of such a double logic working at a textual level often comes to seem remarkably close to a deconstructive analysis : in the same way as Derrida or de Man could be said to be deconstructing received readings that have institutional purchase , so the new historicists shift our understanding of institutionalized historical accounts . |
| 5 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 6 | The faction was said to be demanding that government forces disarm and demobilize in stages , in parallel with the guerrillas , and that UNTAC provide assurances that no Vietnamese forces remained in the country . |
| 7 | One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) . |
| 8 | Bishop Peter is said to be receiving medical treatment for the stress of recent weeks . |
| 9 | Border emerged from that verbal fracas with a flea in his ear from Australian officials , but their patience is said to be wearing thin . |
| 10 | The imports were said to be stifling local recycling industries . |
| 11 | This is said to be saving 1,000,000 bags per week — including 20,000 gallons of oil and 20 tonnes of plastic involved in their manufacture . |
| 12 | The major network evening news programmes were being watched by an estimated 50 — 60 million people and 65 per cent of people were said to be getting 100 per cent of their news from such programmes . |
| 13 | Some are said to be getting cold feet . |
| 14 | The company is also said to be cancelling personal computer-based projects and turning its resources elsewhere . |
| 15 | The heavier loads were being sent to Addis Ababa on camels by the desert route , where the Danakil , always dangerous , were said to be giving more trouble than usual . |
| 16 | Kuwait was said to be deporting 50-100 Bedoun through Safwan to Iraq every week . |
| 17 | Let us hope that the Danes will vote ‘ No ’ in their referendum on June 2 , thus forcing all members to renegotiate the treaty , as many of them are now said to be having second thoughts of their own . |
| 18 | In 1986 it employed about 11,500 workers , and a year later , when its affairs were the subject of wide comment in the press , it was said to be employing 13,000 , or even 14,000 , workers . |
| 19 | Research findings suggest , moreover , that the people most likely to change their votes — the floating voters — are generally the least informed within the electorate , and are thus not people who can be said to be making careful choices between policies . |
| 20 | Baku , meanwhile , remained without special security measures or curfew restrictions , and gangs of looters were said to be attacking abandoned Armenian homes largely unchallenged by the sole detachment of 1,000 Interior Ministry troops who had arrived from Moscow on Jan. 14 . |
| 21 | By mid-February food stocks were said to be running low ; according to local reports , soldiers were sent to Matadi , the country 's main port , to unload ships and transport goods to the capital . |
| 22 | They ended with loss-making Continental involvement and directors said to be drawing two lots of salaries and dividends for the same service . |