Example sentences of "said to [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France recognises its poor performance in population assistance and is said to be developing a new programme , which , however , is expected to focus on public education and demographic research and training rather than family planning assistance . |
| 2 | The new French government is said to be taking a fresh look at the matter . |
| 3 | Painting as an art form became news once more , and young artists were said to be rediscovering a Romantic tradition in English painting that encompassed landscape artists from Turner to Paul Nash , and visionaries from Blake to Stanley Spencer . |
| 4 | Mr Culley is said to be having a hard time coming to terms with what has happened . |
| 5 | Meantime Microsoft Corp and SoftPC house Insignia Solutions Ltd , the Queen 's Award winner from High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire and Mountain View , California , are said to be planning a pre-emptive strike against SunSelect 's Windows-on-Unix WABI system this week , pitting a Microsoft-backed Insignia SoftPC against it in the market . |
| 6 | The journalists to whom I am referring can more solemnly be said to be practising a modern art of indirection , of the unintelligible and the interminable . |
| 7 | One man was ‘ seriously ill ’ and the other was said to be making a satisfactory recovery . |
| 8 | A major question posed is the extent to which the professional bodies , including the Engineering Council and the institutions , can be said to be performing a mediating role between the members of the profession and the government ; that is representing the memberships ' interests while also entering into agreements with the government which are likely to limit their members ' freedom of action . |