Example sentences of "[is] say [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 California is said to use five times the amount of chemicals of the UK .
2 The north West application is said to handle 200,000 transactions a day — Delta want 400,000 .
3 The North West application is said to handle 200,000 transactions a day — Delta wants 400,000 .
4 Instead , the totality itself is said to contain three instances political , economic and ideological — one of which is dominant ; and the identity of the dominant instance is in turn determined ‘ in the last instance ’ by the character of the economic mode of production .
5 The Hwange national park alone is said to have 45,000 elephants : three times as many as the vegetation can support .
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