Example sentences of "[is] say [conj] [num] " in BNC.

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1 It is said that two Feltham type cars , cut off from Telford Avenue depôt , had to spend a night in Thornton Heath depôt .
2 Many takeovers in Europe are friendly and it is said that two in three are negotiated without merchant bankers .
3 Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar .
4 Although reported second-hand , it is said that one chap who 's $5,000 in the red and 90 days behind with payments got a call from the card company .
5 It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ …
6 Now the first day is more for dealers than debutantes : it is said that 10 pictures are sold every minute .
7 It is said that 60 per cent of the human genome codes for proteins that are only expressed in the nervous system , so the real reason that human brains are different may be because greater genetic control has allowed them to evolve more rapidly ; if that is the case , taking to the trees may have freed the smell-brain , but it was its susceptibility to rapid evolution that led to the neopallial explosion .
8 It is said that 50 per cent of people in Basildon read the Sun , and the appalling ‘ Terry ’ Dicks also claims ‘ I could n't have done it without the Sun ’ .
9 DEC is saying that 400 of the 900 software packages announced for Alpha OSF/1 , OpenVMS and NT platforms will be shipping by March : a total of 2,000 programs have been committed to Alpha .
10 It is to say that one person 's view is as good as another 's , which we patently do not accept when it comes to many aspects of our daily lives .
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