Example sentences of "[noun prp] be said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alex Paterson and Thrash are said to have approached Hawkwind with a view to updating the song , which was a Top Five hit in 1972 . |
| 2 | France Telecom , Thomson Consumer Electronics SA , Alcatel NV and Matra SA are said to be clients . |
| 3 | Two new humeri from Pakistan are said to retain ancestral characters similar to those seen in Proconsul and Kenyapithecus , with the proximal shaft curving laterally and anteriorly ( that is , convex laterally as in Old World monkeys ) , and a flat deltoid plane , whereas the distal articular surface has several derived great ape features . |
| 4 | Those born on a Friday are said to be marked out for special piety , which does not mean that they will be pious necessarily ; only that their natures are imbued with that proclivity . |
| 5 | TNCs from the United States were said to control over three-quarters of the total volume of transborder data flows , including transmission , storage and processing in the early 1980s ( see Mowlana , 1985 , ch.5 ) . |
| 6 | There is a multitude of stately homes and historic sites to visit , including Glastonbury Abbey and Tor , where Joseph of Arimathea is said to have buried the chalice used at the Last Supper ; and Montacute House , a very fine Elizabethan mansion with formal gardens . |
| 7 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 8 | While a beneficiary of Aethelwealh 's patronage , however , Wilfrid is said to have been sought as a spiritual father by Caedwalla ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 42 ) . |
| 9 | The really worrying thing is that Marie is said to have obtained improved terms from suppliers ( understandable , given that she is ordering larger quantities ) . |
| 10 | Marie is said to have been a frequent visitor to her mother 's court at Poitiers and to have brought with her the greatest poet in France , Chrétien de Troyes . |
| 11 | Finally , by a process which is not entirely clear , the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil is said to have transferred to Sultan Selim and his heirs all rights to the caliphate . |
| 12 | In a note to his poem The Vision , Burns wrote , ‘ Coilus , King of the Picts , from whom the district of Kyle is said to take its name , lies buried , as tradition says , near the family seat of the Montgomeries of Coilsfield , where his burial place is still shown . ’ |
| 13 | In the first , which the author derived from Abbess Aelfflaed , herself an eye-witness , who died in 713 ( HE 111 , 24 ; AU s.a. 712 : AT p. 222 ) , Aldfrith is said to have urged his successor , whoever he might be , to come to terms with Wilfrid ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 59 ) , and in the second , seemingly later version , to have urged his son and heir , Osred , to do so ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) . |
| 14 | Married New York State Judge Sol Wachtler is said to have sent socialite Joy Silverman bizarre letters and posted a condom to her 14-year-old daughter . |
| 15 | Becky is said to be ‘ comfortable ’ in the special burns unit of Frenchay hospital , Bristol , where her brother is also being treated . |
| 16 | Praxsys is said to be ‘ leagues ahead ’ of Quorum Software , the Mac-on-RISC house that captured the limelight back at Uniforum — see opposite . |
| 17 | The Brazos River in Texas is said to change its course abruptly once every ten years or so . |
| 18 | Richard is said to have favoured the axe as a hand-to-hand weapon , and a contemporary poem records that he had one made specially before departing for the Holy Land : |
| 19 | OSF is said to have got the go-ahead to reveal the agreement a few weeks ago , but waited to announce at Unix Expo . |
| 20 | HOG members stress the group is concerned only with generic definitions , and whilst OSF is said to be taking a lead role in new work , HOG members have already agreed to endorse those previously established by the Network Management Forum . |
| 21 | Plenty of people skirted the area : in 1730 Whitehaven was said to be the third busiest port in England , after London and Bristol . |
| 22 | Pakistan was said to have insisted that both sides should revert to positions held in December 1971 as agreed in the Simla Accord [ see pp. 25432-33 ] . |
| 23 | Antony was said to blush when he had to eat . |
| 24 | Father Maire was said to have received death threats because of his work in organising the poor . |
| 25 | Kuwait was said to be deporting 50-100 Bedoun through Safwan to Iraq every week . |
| 26 | He also threatened to repudiate the wartime debts and Tareq Aziz contributed further detail by valuing the oil Kuwait was said to have extracted at $2.4 billion . |
| 27 | But Edward was said by his friends to have business sense , and to be able to make things work . |
| 28 | Minton went to apologise and by the end of his visit both he and Lindsay are said to have been very drunk and reconciled . |
| 29 | Mr and Mrs Key are said to be grief-stricken and still undergoing therapy after the loss of their baby sons . |
| 30 | 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 . |