Example sentences of "said [prep] be a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 2 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |
| 3 | It is said to be a luminous and dynamic nature capable of independent existence apart from its physical counterpart . |
| 4 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 5 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 6 | When , however , its satisfactions depend upon the infliction of pain or damage upon an unwilling partner , the situation is again that of using a person as a mere object : the sadist ( or , sometimes , the masochist ) may genuinely be said to be a social and personal menace . |