Example sentences of "[noun] are say to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff who witnessed the murder are said to be very distressed . |
| 2 | Outputs are said to be up to 1 million litres ( 200,000gal ) /day . |
| 3 | Teenagers are said to be especially sensitive to the financial implications and aware of their own lack of power in the matter . |
| 4 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 5 | Definition 1.4.8 Two integers a , b are said to be relatively prime ( or coprime ) iff ( a , b ) = 1 . |
| 6 | Furthermore , these circumstances are said to be essentially heterogeneous , so that they can not be seen as aspects of one large contradiction ; each is a contradiction within a particular social totality . |
| 7 | Surfers are said to be as exclusive in their manners as the upper classes they have replaced , talking only among themselves and inevitably spending a good deal of their time incommunicado offshore . |
| 8 | Since individuals are said to be altogether determined , constraints must be found to explain all their actions and intentions . |
| 9 | Subjective assessments are said to be less acceptable , but I offer mine , nevertheless , drawn from my own studies of the literature of the project ( including one evaluation so far completed ) , from talks with project workers and brief visits to schools . |
| 10 | And , however badly Ratner appears to have screwed up the company 's finances — and public image — some people are said to be still willing to give him financial support . |
| 11 | Despite their vivid appearance when seen in bright sunlight on open grassland , the zebras are said to be well camouflaged in broken cover at dawn and dusk , when predators are active and the light is dim . |
| 12 | According to a DCDA telephone survey four places in Stockton are said to be very rarely vacant and 21 on North Tyneside , due to be ready from April , are already subject to a long waiting list . |
| 13 | In this case the liquids are said to be partially miscible . |
| 14 | Because a flat tangent space can always be drawn locally to any point in a Riemann space , Riemann spaces are said to be locally flat ( or locally Euclidean ) . |
| 15 | Players are said to be equally solid in their support for the union 's current case . |
| 16 | So the two works are said to be both like one another and unlike . |
| 17 | Secular university choirs are said to be much better than church groups . |
| 18 | ‘ Tin Can Island ’ proclaim the postage stamps , and old ones are said to be almost as sought after as British Guiana Triangulars or Penny Blacks . |
| 19 | Talks are said to be underway for a Tyson warm-up fight in Britain , plus the prospect of a £50 million showdown with WBC champion Lennox Lewis . |
| 20 | But corporation bosses are said to be privately seething . |