Example sentences of "[noun] is say [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thumping defeat is said to be a victory . |
| 2 | The cell is said to be the remains of an ancient Carthaginian temple . |
| 3 | With step-by-step diagrams and photography plus an A to Z listing of garden plants , plant propagation is said to be the cheapest way of getting a well-stocked garden . |
| 4 | A large circular flat stone on the green is said to be the remains of the market cross . |
| 5 | This double vision of the woman-goddess is said to be the mainspring of Shakespeare 's tragedies . |
| 6 | For any symmetric section , one possibility being a section of the form of figure 9.14(a) with , the two iterative impedances are equal and the common impedance is said to be the characteristic impedance as stated earlier . |
| 7 | Membership of the Public Windows Initiative is said to be a condition of taking a WABI licence — all licensees are understood to have been sworn to secrecy under the direst of imprecations . |
| 8 | The Making Belfast Work initiative is said to be the centre of economic development policy in West Belfast . |
| 9 | After all as one employer opined , " twelve years is said to be the maximum working life of a woman compositor " . |
| 10 | Evidence of the Host 's appearance is said to be the red crotal ( lichen ) stain found on rocks the morning after a heavy frost , which is blood they have spilled during their aerial spats . |
| 11 | The name is said to be a tribute to 42-year-old Robbie 's screen idol Spencer Tracy . |
| 12 | The ratio is said to be a matter of ‘ commercial prudence ’ and is said to be ‘ non-mandatory ’ to distinguish it from the possible alternative , namely , that the ratio be written into banking law . |
| 13 | The Emperor Karl Franz is said to be the greatest statesman in the Old World . |
| 14 | But working near the top of the BBC is said to be a nightmare , with Checkland a lame-duck , Birt not speaking out and Hussey acting like an executive . |
| 15 | If the probability of being included is equal for each member of the relevant population then the sample is said to be a random one . |
| 16 | The King is said to be a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu . |
| 17 | Its closure to through traffic is said to be an important safety feature of the scheme . |
| 18 | Its closure to through traffic is said to be an important safety feature of the scheme . |
| 19 | Sex on Sweeney 's cannibal isle is said to be a business of being ‘ bored ’ , but the horror of the perception takes it out of mere ‘ boredom ’ , which was killing the Melanesians and , Eliot thought , the modern world . |
| 20 | If a fine is not enough , custody is said to be the only adequate penalty . |
| 21 | Church of the Holy Sepulchre is said to be the oldest building in Northampton and the largest and best preserved of the medieval round churches in the Country . |
| 22 | Parker is said to be the self-confessed most Left wing man in Britain , an urban warrior with a mission . |
| 23 | Central to this approach is said to be an emphasis upon guidance from the best available scientific evidence . |
| 24 | In Titus 3:5 the Holy Spirit is said to be the one who not only regenerates us , but who renews us ; and this work of renewal of our natures from within is stressed in Romans 12:2 ( as we present our bodies a living sacrifice to God ) and in Colossians 3:10 . |
| 25 | In fact when God created this world he is described as working ( Gen. 2:13 ) , and frequently the world is said to be the work of his hands . |
| 26 | Totemism is the earliest form of religion , according to Freud , and he quotes Robertson Smith 's The Religion of the Semites in which the sacrifice of an animal at the altar is said to be the most fundamental element in religion . |
| 27 | The 65 ft tower is said to be the best-proportioned tower in Holderness . |
| 28 | Cointreu is said to be the seventh most popular liqueur in the world . |
| 29 | The Mosher case is said to be the main reason . |
| 30 | The churchyard is said to be the scene of a visitation from a ghost — reputedly a ‘ young man in black ’ , who caused the frantic barking by a dog one evening and then promptly disappeared ! |