Example sentences of "say it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say it gets a bit busier about two o'clock . |
| 2 | You know some say it had a trunk |
| 3 | Officially it is for ‘ consultations ’ but the usual reliable sources say it follows a series of death threats by white bigots who were displeased when he said the South African-controlled Koevoet paramilitary forces were ‘ on a turkey shoot ’ against Swapo guerrillas . |
| 4 | BT say it means an hour 's chat will cost just 84p — even if the call is made from Land 's End to John O'Groats . |
| 5 | The company say it has a 40% worldwide market share with 300 companies using its stuff . |
| 6 | Whatever the critics say it seems a lot of people will be picking up a copy just to see what might have happened to the De Winters . |
| 7 | Commodore International Ltd says it repaid a loan of $13m to the Prudential Insurance Co of America rather than accept the terms that were proposed . |
| 8 | This oarsman says it took a bite out of his blade . |
| 9 | The company says it shipped a record 52,000 units , including desktop computers and servers ( exclusive of upgrades ) during the quarter , and that SunSoft Inc distributed a record number of Unix licences , more than 70,000 , to users of Sparc-based and iAPX-86-based kit , to manufacturers of Sparc-based machines and to other licensees . |
| 10 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it signed a number of contracts during the first quarter of 1993 totalling $30m for AXE digital switching kit to extend the public telecommunications network in Liaoning Province , Peoples Republic of China . |
| 11 | It says it takes an hour to install Personal Edition . |
| 12 | Santa Clara , California-based Nimbus Technology says it has a DMA controller chip for Sparc Sbus input/output devices , which at $35 , costs 30% less than LSI Logic 's comparable part , it claims . |
| 13 | Before any additional Alpha licencees are revealed , DEC says it has a heap of important VAX announcements to make . |
| 14 | But the company says it has a claim AGAINST the Ghanaian Government ‘ significantly in excess of £1m ’ . |
| 15 | DEC says it has a memorandum of understanding with a second source for the Alpha chip . |
| 16 | University of Utah spin-out Hippo Software Inc in Salt Lake City says it has a $240 package that runs on Windows NT-based PCs that allows developers to write programs that are source code-compatible with both NT and Unix , reports our sister publication ClieNT Server NEWS . |
| 17 | The Ministry says it has a duty to buy from overseas if that provides the best value for money for the taxpayer . |
| 18 | Tewkesbury Borough Council says it has a duty to uphold planning regulations . |
| 19 | As for real customers , VISystems cites Motorola itself as ready to throw out some thirty IBM mainframes , says it has an ISV that has downsized 12 sites onto Data General kit , and in the UK has a production user in the shape of Trafalgar House Construction , which has committed the heinous sin ( in the eyes of IBM ) of transferring its 200 plus existing TP applications from an IBM mainframe to an RS/6000 . |
| 20 | He says it makes a change from the blood and gore on television . |
| 21 | He says it makes a mockery of the justice system . |
| 22 | Anyway , Aunty Jean 's quite pleased with her bathroom , she says it looks a lot bigger . |
| 23 | Mr Straw said : ‘ The Government says it wants an expansion of higher education . |
| 24 | He says it means a lot to me , ity 's a great honour to have him in a little town like this . |
| 25 | In an adjudication published today , the Press Council does not uphold the complaint , saying it represented a re-run of complaints made by the Lamplughs about Mr Stephen 's book and was likely to ‘ reopen and prolong a dispute which might be better left unpursued . ’ |
| 26 | In the end the company became frustrated by lengthy negotiations and laid down an ultimatum saying it wanted an answer by September 1988 . |
| 27 | It is hard to speak against a situation that makes everyone happy , but one has to say it represents a form of intellectual inflation that is just as pernicious in its way as monetary inflation . |
| 28 | Shares of Cirrus Logic Inc plunged 30% on heavy volume following the company 's disappointing fiscal fourth quarter figures ( CI No 2,158 ) : Cirrus reported earnings of 10 cents a share , and the mean estimate of seven analysts surveyed by First Call had put fourth-quarter earnings at 31 cents a share ; Cirrus said it experienced a decline in profitability because of demand fluctuations in the disk-drive industry , where inventories are high ; analysts said its earnings wo n't improve until the September quarter ; disk guru Jim Porter , president of Disk/Trend , said some of Cirrus ' earnings shortfall is likely coming from Conner Peripherals Inc , which also recently disappointed Wall Street with its own results , because the rest of the disk drive industry is still healthy ; analysts also told Reuter that Cirrus is facing tougher competition in disk controllers from Adaptec Inc , Milpitas , California . |
| 29 | A spokeswoman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said it had a network of volunteers ‘ monitoring the situation ’ throughout the province . |
| 30 | Paris-based computer services and distribution group Metrologie International SA said it had an operating loss in the first quarter of 1993 due to a drop in activity and pressures to reduce gross margins : the loss was equivalent to about $3.6m and turnover on a like-for-like basis fell 15.9% to $73.5m . |