Example sentences of "[be] say [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pre-emptive analgesia has , indeed , been said to have been shown to occur in several clinical studies . |
| 2 | Originally , the Seychelles kestrels nested in holes in the mountain crags but are said to have been ousted from that habitat by barn owls which were introduced to try and control the rat population . |
| 3 | Company fleet buyers are said to have been holding back , pondering the result of a value added tax case that removed obstacles in the way of offering cash rather than the car perk . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Intel 's hardware OEMs , already totally paranoid about delays to Pentium , are said to have been threatened with dire consequences , even lawsuits , if they leak any information about Pentium or the systems they 're building around it to the press . |
| 5 | In an incident in Cetekovac in eastern Croatia , more than 20 are said to have been killed , including unarmed civilians , by Serbian insurgents who attacked the village on 4 September 1991 ; an old man described to a visiting journalist how the insurgents had forced him and others to stand in line and shot dead one villager who tried to flee . |
| 6 | Nine workmen were reportedly employed at the Luxeuil-les-Bains foundry and authorities are said to have been alerted by the fact that Hains got behind with his Social Security payments . |
| 7 | But those fertile cultural fields which are said to have been generated and sustained by this vitalizing flow of truly native experience turn out to be presently inhabited only by a " limited section " of the society . |
| 8 | Payments totalling seventy-thousand pounds are said to have been involved . |
| 9 | And in the even more classic ground of the Italian Apennines , where Kuenen and Migliorini first recognised the turbidity current , single graded beds up to 20 metres thick within the Macigno Sandstone are said to have been deposited by a single " whoosh " of turbid water . |
| 10 | Around 500,000 hectares of forest are said to have been destroyed , and fires have also been reported in western Java and south Sulawesi . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Only 500 copies are said to have been printed . |
| 13 | Oracle7 , Sybase , Ingres and Informix are said to have been tuned for the 1000 . |
| 14 | There are in existence some brief audio recordings of alleged two-way radio conversations between Blake and Bourke which are said to have been made in October 1966 . |
| 15 | Two more ghosts , two women — also in black — are said to have been seen about the village in days gone by . |
| 16 | Amnesty International is also concerned that in other instances , during the operation some unarmed civilians were reportedly killed deliberately by Soviet and Azerbaydzhani law enforcement officials without warning or attempts to apprehend them , and that some people are said to have been detained for short periods solely on grounds of their ethnic origin . |
| 17 | Bankruptcy proceedings appear to have been taken against the plaintiffs by B.M.T. Receiving orders were made against them in the county court but , on appeal , these orders were , it is said , rescinded on terms which are not stated but which are said to have been fulfilled . |
| 18 | Architects are said to have been prowling on the island incognito gathering intelligence for their mission . |
| 19 | The company 's strategies in the mid-range — where its RISC machines and AS/400s show great potential for growth and profitability — are said to have been constrained by concerns over self-impact . |
| 20 | Several horses are said to have been buried there , standing up , at the request of the eccentric vicar whose family had the house built in School Lane in Edwardian times . |
| 21 | The Cecchini Report has also been criticised because certain key factors are said to have been omitted . |
| 22 | There , 700 men are said to have been imprisoned underground , without daylight , for 11 years . |
| 23 | Valued at about one million francs , these are said to have been sold by von Keller to an English jeweller by the name of Mawe . |
| 24 | The firms were briefed on COSE shortly after the COSE announcement and are said to have been encouraged to make their voices heard . |
| 25 | Naturally enough , this raised all sorts of questions as to how much of the estate could in good faith be consumed by him ; and ( the question here ) in what circumstances the estate could be said to have been diminished . |
| 26 | The capital of Kenya , Nairobi , can truly be said to have been made by its station . |
| 27 | They then made their agreement , which can truly I think be said to have been made under compulsion , by the telex of June 28 , without prejudice to their rights . |
| 28 | That equitable doctrine , however , could hardly apply in the present case because the variation here might be said to have been made without consideration . |
| 29 | There needs to be some procedure , however , which is akin to the analysand coming to accept the analysts ' interpretations in the analytic setting for the hypotheses to be said to have been tested . |
| 30 | The most wanton of his foreign exploits could thus be said to have been conceived , misguidedly , as an act of self-defence . |