Example sentences of "say [to-vb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I say to do is buy a new chiller and get it on and then all Summer we 'll get this damn problem again . |
| 2 | Constructive knowledge , which is said to exist were the accused ought to have realised that certain circumstances prevail and has failed to make the enquires a reasonable person would have made , is not applicable since ‘ knowingly ’ connotes either intention or a subjective awareness of the relevant facts . |
| 3 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 4 | Orlando Azcué was also said to have been beaten by prison guards on at least three occasions . |
| 5 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 6 | ( But can this be said to have been what happened ? |
| 7 | The duel in which Lermontov was soon to die is said to have been patterned , so far as its arrangements went , on the one in the novel : the outcome , however , was perceptibly different . |
| 8 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 9 | Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value . |
| 10 | But if every work of art is simply the expression of the artist 's intuition , it is evident that an absolute or complete pattern would be useless , since the intuitions of two different minds could never be expressed by the same form : nor can anything in art be said to have been ‘ done once for all ’ , since if it were ‘ done again ’ by another hand — used , that is , to express the intuition of another spirit — it would be no longer what had been done before . |
| 11 | If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way . |
| 12 | The date is said to have been chosen to thwart those taking precautions by adjusting computer clocks , which trigger the virus , to avoid the notorious date . |
| 13 | Sir : The suggestion of Mr Varcoe-Cocks ( letter , 5 October ) that if I win damages for libel and give them to charity I ‘ can not be said to have been compensated in any way ’ is extraordinary . |
| 14 | Under the new management of Andrzeja Strejlaua , and with several team changes , they were said to have been much improved in narrowly losing a friendly in Spain last month . |
| 15 | He himself paid two fruitless visits to the site of a camp near Torzhok , 200 miles north of Moscow , where as late as 1987 Wallenberg was said to have been held . |
| 16 | Only 500 copies are said to have been printed . |
| 17 | The Patel community was said to have been founded around 1700 , when six brothers from Persia settled in six villages in the fertile Charotar region of Gujerat . |
| 18 | All are said to have been renewed without seeking a competition for tenders or a dispensation from the EC required under EC Supplies Directive 77/62 . |
| 19 | It is understood that , because the victims of the Awiel plane crash were badly mutilated , doctors who had packed the bodies before shipment to France had taken extra precautions , and an explosion from decomposition was therefore said to have been unlikely . |
| 20 | That general attitude of the South 's is said to have been the most striking impression retained by Ripa di Meana , the EC environment commissioner , from talks during his first year in office ( 1989 ) with Third World ministers and officials . |
| 21 | A tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People , who live on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria , in northern Australia , is said to have been in direct communication for thousands of years with the wild bottlenose dolphins who reside just off the coast . |
| 22 | The Benue Rift deposits are spread out along 600 km , so they can not yet be said to have been adequately characterised , but the technical , stylistic , compositional and lead isotope evidence now points to the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes originating within Nigeria . |
| 23 | Mandela himself was said to have been overwhelmed by his reception . |
| 24 | For the uncommitted public , however , there were two effects of startling importance : sexual frankness took an immense leap forward and the image of women could be said to have been changed for ever . |
| 25 | The bonds with the Führer were said to have been deepened , the trust in the leadership strengthened . |
| 26 | Goebbels 's eulogy of Hitler in an article in Das Reich on 31 December was said to have been well received by ‘ only a few people 's comrades and naturally the old loyal fighters ’ . |
| 27 | W. P. Hartley also made donations so that the movement could be said to have been financially based on Quaker chocolate and Methodist jam . |
| 28 | Whereas in 1890 there were said to have been two councils , by 1901 there were 720 . |
| 29 | Twelve manors , a vill and four hamlets held by subjects on the west side of the Severn from Newent in the north to Lydney , Alvington and Aylburton in the south were named : they were said to have been afforested by John , and so were claimed to be free of the Forest law . |
| 30 | Therefore the admission which the Prime Minister wrung from him could hardly be said to have been grudging . |