Example sentences of "is [adv] said to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had first mentioned the concept of ego ideal in his paper ‘ On Narcissism ’ ( 1914 ) , and the notion of ego ideal is later said to be identical with that of super-ego in The Ego and the Id ( 1923 ) . |
| 2 | It is also said to be fleur-de-lis of French heraldry . |
| 3 | At Westbury on Severn the A-Forty-Eight is underwater and the A-Thirty eight Gloucester to Tewksbury road is also said to be treacherous . |
| 4 | The Stedelijk 's Barnett Newman , worth DFl. 5.4 million just before it was vandalised in 1986 , is now said to be worthless . |
| 5 | Mrs Lenihan , who suffers from dementia is now said to be comfortable in hospital in Oxford . |
| 6 | This , then , is often said to be another difference between the Near Eastern and the Indian traditions . |
| 7 | The beginning of this slowing down process is frequently said to be Allied 's failure to take over Boddingtons in 1969 ( Boddingtons were part of the Whitbread ‘ umbrella ’ , and Whitbread threw its weight behind the family shareholders ) . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the nuclear family is sometimes said to be selfish and inward-looking , failing in its wider duty , especially towards the elderly . |
| 9 | Public disagreement about a school is sometimes said to be bad for the education of its pupils . |
| 10 | He is commonly said to be mad , and may indeed be so , but his unreasoning rage is backed up by a keen and artistic mind . |