Example sentences of "say it [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or two of the boys would go in there , fellers of the village , and they would stop there all night , and the next night ; and they say it had been known for it to go the week ; have a week settin' in , staying in the pub . |
| 2 | Above all we must disregard any traditional idea and never , never , be put off by statements of ‘ practical men ’ who say it has been tried before or it will never work ; these two feeble and slavish statements have destroyed countless ideas and they have been the rocks against which many brilliant minds have foundered . |
| 3 | Frame Technology Corp , San Jose says it has been named as a defendant in a suit alleging breach of oral and written contract with respect to sums allegedly owed to Meridian Systems Inc , which provides sales representative and value-added reseller services ; Frame said the suit is without merit and it will be defended vigorously . |
| 4 | The evil wind that bombed Manhattan 's World Trade Center nevertheless blew some good to the disaster recovery specialists : SunGard Data Systems Inc says it has been contacted by four subscriber companies seeking disaster recovery services following the blast — two in Four World Trade Center , one in Two World Trade Center and one in One World Trade Center ; and Comdisco Inc said it is providing disaster recovery services to three financial services companies hit by the blast , while IBM Corp 's disaster recovery unit said it had been in touch with ‘ a lot ’ of its customers , but that so far none of its customers had had to declare their workplaces to be disaster areas . |
| 5 | AMD says it has been working hard to improve the robustness of its chip designs . |
| 6 | UK Defence Research Agency 's Ten15 Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology will also be incorporated : UI says it has been working closely with DRA for the last six months on proposals . |
| 7 | AH says it has been forced into a big cost-cutting exercise because of the effect of Petroleum Revenue Tax changes , announced in the last Budget . |
| 8 | Since January , when the package went on limited release in the US , the company says it has been installed in over a dozen sites including MCI Communications Corp , Xerox Corp and American Express Co . |
| 9 | The firm says it has been adapted and tested for the MTOS , VRTX , VMEexec and other real-time operating systems . |
| 10 | The company says it has been previewing the new X-stations for three weeks and has already taken orders for over 2,300 units . |
| 11 | Kyte , who was a founding signatory of the appeal , says it has been set up ‘ to help finance long-term grass-roots reconstruction , and supports small groups of people in ‘ Yugoslavia' who are committed to feeding people , housing refugees , establishing playgroups for children , and to helping all those who refuse to fight . |
| 12 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 13 | The health authority says it 's been vindicated . |
| 14 | He 's just made it up and he says it 's been described , this word , as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes and where are your frontal lobes ? |
| 15 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 16 | The company says it 's been forced to shut the factories because of competition from abroad where wages are much lower . |
| 17 | The blue one was on saying it had been tested ! |
| 18 | ‘ It was still tagged with notes saying it had been found round Stephen 's neck . ’ |
| 19 | That is to say it had been made in England between the years 1700 and 1840 . |
| 20 | They looked at the law and said it had been broken . |
| 21 | Lord Morison said it had been argued that the unique and novel attempt by the Mullan family to establish something which the Crown had failed to do in a criminal case raised questions of general importance . |
| 22 | The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ . |
| 23 | Peter Runciman , 64 , former executive chairman of Shanks & McEwan , said it had been decided to issue the profits warning to the stock exchange at a meeting of the company 's three-man executive committee on 5 September . |
| 24 | IXI said it had been courted by a couple of other Unix suppliers , but decided some months ago to offer itself up to its OEM partner . |
| 25 | Detective Inspector Alan Brown said it had been done to create more addicts but resulted in a trebling of the number of fatalities . |
| 26 | The reporter to Strathclyde 's children 's panel had appealed the decision and giving yesterday 's judgment , Lord Murray , sitting with Lords Osborne and Wylie , said it had been pointed out that the sheriff had excluded any question of reasonable chastisement in this case . |
| 27 | Regional Official Walter Ievers said it had been confirmed that schools are under no statutory obligation to report to parents of children finishing primary seven and third form in secondary and grammar schools in the way the Department has indicated in the recent Parents Guide . |
| 28 | The director of policy of the Consumers ' Association , Stephen Locke , said it had been pressing the Government to introduce the measures for some time . |
| 29 | Mr Chambers said Mr Smith claimed he did not have £407 and , when he said he would take his Astra instead , Mr Smith said it had been sold . |
| 30 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |