Example sentences of "it be say [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's said to eliminate the I/O bottleneck evident in many computers with high powered CPUs , and resulted in an 80% to 100% performance improvement when running the SPEC Consortium 's SDET benchmark . |
| 2 | With a hundred rooms , it 's said to have a window for every day of the year . |
| 3 | It 's said to have happened after Stockton referee Ken Lupton sent off Preston striker Ronnie Jepson , for allegedly badmouthing Bowden . |
| 4 | Moreover , it is said to beget single young , unlike most other animals . |
| 5 | When an element can exist in two or more allotropic forms each of which is stable over a range of conditions , it is said to exhibit enantiotropy . |
| 6 | When an element exists in more than one crystalline form only one of which is stable it is said to exhibit monotropy . |
| 7 | Made in the shape of two serpents , it is said to represent sin , and also the fact that there are two sides to every dispute ! |
| 8 | The chief significance of this from the ‘ separation of ownership and control ’ viewpoint is that it is said to restore ‘ integrity to the goal-specification and policing process ’ that is lost through the attenuation of shareholder control . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is said to give priority to prestige projects , to the detriment of serious planning and proper funding of research , which , in the main , has to depend on the goodwill of private sponsors . |
| 11 | The search for the nature of the distinctively gay sensibility can be productively redirected as an exploration of the limitations of the aesthetic as conventionally understood , especially the way it is said to transcend the socio-political , and used in support of the proposition that discrimination is the essence of culture . |
| 12 | It is said to function through the mechanism of the take-over bid so as to allocate the assets of companies to those managers who can put them to their best use , thereby disciplining managers to maximize profits or face the threat of a take-over bid ousting them from their jobs . |
| 13 | It is said to drop at times to below 8 , but I have never yet lost it with 7 × 50 binoculars . |
| 14 | In this position it is said to indicate " Full scale deflection " . |
| 15 | It is said to end the days of peeling soggy wallpaper off the wall and having to trim it with scissors or a knife . |
| 16 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 17 | When the pub landlord or cellarman considers that the beer is ready to serve — it is said to have ‘ dropped bright ’ with the sediment of yeast in the belly of the cask , and to have matured sufficiently — a long plastic tube is connected to the tap and the beer is ready to be pulled to the bar . |
| 18 | Dark , hard and faintly bitter , it is said to have the side-effect of lowering blood-pressure , unlike most other things in Hong Kong . |
| 19 | It is said to have made no provision for the protection of sea lochs , to operate without an overall development plan , and to have made little attempt to monitor the farms it has approved . |
| 20 | It is said to have been at one time the world 's largest spinning mill under one roof . |
| 21 | It is said to have been built as a smock mill but later , after a period as a dwelling house , changed to a tower mill and made higher . |
| 22 | It is said to have been the first large bridge in the country made with a level roadway ( i.e. not rising towards the crown ) . |
| 23 | It is said to have been built without nails , bolts , dowels or other fixings to a design by Newton , but to have been bolted together following its dismantling by drunken students who were unable , when sober , to reverse their vandalism ! |
| 24 | It may also be worth trying a herbal tea , called taheebo or pau d'arco — it is said to have anti-fungal properties , although this has not been verified scientifically . |
| 25 | It is said to have included John Buchan . |
| 26 | When the air at a particular temperature can not hold any more moisture , it is said to have reached saturation point , and this condition is described as a relative humidity of 100% . |
| 27 | It is said to have the largest on-chip cache in the industry — two thirds of its 3.1m transistors are dedicated to the cache — and claims to be the first with complete on-chip multi-processing . |
| 28 | At some maxima Mira can reach the second magnitude , and in 1779 it is said to have risen to 1.7 , much brighter than Polaris , while in 1969,1977 and 1987 I estimated it as 2.3 at its peak , though on other occasions it never exceeds magnitude 4 . |
| 29 | The herati design ( pls 22 , 23 ) derives its name from the town of Herat ( part of Persia until the last century , but now in Afghanistan ) , where it is said to have originated . |
| 30 | It is for this reason that when a Kingdom has been taken by force of arms , it is said to have been taken by the sword . |