Example sentences of "say it [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said by some to be more tiring physically than a paid job , by others to be less tiring : some women say it takes a greater emotional toll , others that the drain is less than other work . |
| 2 | ‘ They say it takes a brave woman to love a Scorpio , ’ he said . |
| 3 | People who have n't seen me play , but have heard the album , say it sounds a little bit different . |
| 4 | They say it made a few other people happy as well … |
| 5 | If they give you an equation like this let's say the weight you 're making up a a load for a lorry and you 're putting erm crates on with car engines in , and the car engine weighs erm I du n no say it weighs a hundred kilograms . |
| 6 | But critics say it sets a dangerous example . |
| 7 | In particular , they say it boasts a convenient location . |
| 8 | DEC says it plans a new DataCentre Monitor for Ultrix , a watchdog for SunOS , HP-UX and AIX Unix . |
| 9 | But the Evangelical Alliance UK , which says it represents a million churchgoers , immediately responded by saying the Church must not adopt society 's view of marriage as disposable and pre-marital sex as inevitable . |
| 10 | Sue 's boss was angry ; he says it sends a clear message to criminals . |
| 11 | MIPS says it made a strong effort at the beginning to get the SCO on very favourable terms but the sponsorship just was n't there . |
| 12 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 13 | D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills . |
| 14 | The more things change , the more they stay the same : taking a leaf from our own book , InformationWeek says it procured an internal IBM memo written June 26 by the director of advanced workstations and AIX systems Jeff Mason telling staffers not to push System/3x users to the RS/6000 , which he himself is responsible for , for fear of undercutting sales of the company 's highly profitable higher margin AS/400s . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Central 's forecaster says it remains a wet out look . |
| 16 | The hunt says it plays a vital role in the county 's conservation , and warns that if foxhunting is banned , foxes could become extinct.Chris Moore reports . |
| 17 | The hunt says it plays a vital role in the county 's conservation , and warns that if foxhunting is banned , foxes could become extinct.Chris Moore reports . |
| 18 | But the rector says it plays a vital role . |
| 19 | Siemens AG says it won a Bulgarian contract worth more than $6.3m to modernise and expand the country 's telephone systems : Siemens will deliver more than 80,000 EWSD digital exchange lines and fibre cable : its Digicom Bulgarian joint venture set up last year with a local partner , will install the kit in Sophia and in northern Bulgaria by 1996 . |
| 20 | The company says it has a worldwide installed base of 160 systems , two thirds of which reside in Japan and at least 30 systems are thought to be in Europe . |
| 21 | Northern Telecom Ltd — itself a large Microsoft user — says it has a prior claim to the initials and has told Microsoft it ca n't use the term . |
| 22 | Northern Telecom — itself a large Microsoft user — says it has a prior claim to the initials and has told Microsoft it cant use the moniker . |
| 23 | Interleaf Inc , Waltham , Massachusetts , says it has a new object-oriented document management package called RDM , for Unix , personal computers and Apple Macs which supports SQL and SGML . |
| 24 | Northern Telecom Ltd has reached agreement to manufacture and sell packet switches in China : it says it has a three-year deal with China National Post & Telecommunications Appliance Corp and Nanjing Telecommunications Equipment Factory , and that the manufacturing operation , in Nanjing , will be its third site in China — ‘ With this local manufacturing capability , we can expect to become the leading force in the development of China 's data communications infrastructure , ’ it said . |
| 25 | While efforts continue to save the Jensen sports car company from liquidation , a small workshop says it has a full order book for the cars . |
| 26 | Taiwanese company DTK Computer Inc says it has a Tsunami-based Sun Microsystems Inc workstation compatible with three times the graphics performance of the Sun Microsystems Inc Classic . |
| 27 | DTK Computer Inc says it has a Tsunami-based Sun Microsystems Inc workstation compatible with three times the graphics performance of the Sun Classic . |
| 28 | Sainsbury 's says it has a strict listeria code of practice and is confident that standards of hygiene are effective . |
| 29 | Los Angeles-based IDOC says it has a platform-independent translation management package called XL8 that facilitates simultaneous software releases in multiple languages . |
| 30 | DISNEY says it has a minor dispute with a few of the hundreds of contractors it has dealt with on the project . |