Example sentences of "the [adj] [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FA-18 is said to be not well-suited to Switzerland , where fast aircraft find mountains looming up alarmingly soon . |
| 2 | Other property opportunities will open up when the Russian — and eventually the American , British and French — military finally vacate their extensive bases ( the British are said to occupy some particularly fine pieces of real estate ) . |
| 3 | THE BRITISH are said to be fascinated by the weather and talk of little else when the talk is small . |
| 4 | Neither can the Six be said to have achieved all that they set out to do . |
| 5 | The Japanese are said to be keen to invest more , but worry about the safety of their executives there . |
| 6 | This contrast is used to explain why the Japanese are said to feel less class conscious than Westerners because vertical loyalties within companies , say , are more important than horizontal relations with other people who occupy the same position but who work for different companies . |
| 7 | At common law an occupier did not owe a duty of care towards a trespasser under the rule in R. Addie & Son ( Collieries ) Ltd v. Dumbreck [ 1929 ] AC 358 ( HL ) where the following was said : |
| 8 | Charles the Bald was said to resemble his grandfather physically . |
| 9 | The latter is said to have come to Karaman in order to study under Cemaleddin Aksarayi , although he almost abandoned the journey on reading that scholar 's in which he was very much disappointed . |
| 10 | We have seen the former being raided by Eadric Streona in 1012 and fighting for Edmund Ironside in 1016 , while the latter are said to have attacked Durham in 1006 , and by Æthelred 's death King Malcolm II was planning a further incursion . |
| 11 | The former was said to bring industrial conflict , the latter harmony . |
| 12 | The marriage of a person who has been judicially declared insane is totally void , and the same is said to be true of any disposition of property made by such a person . |
| 13 | Can the same be said of military firing at those times ? |
| 14 | But can the same be said for international law ? |
| 15 | But can the same be said about the social world ? |
| 16 | Can the same be said of upgrade releases to software ? |
| 17 | The same was said about Bassett 's Wimbledon , of course , and for a promoted team to take an unbeaten record and three-point lead into the season 's eighth week is an achievement in itself . |
| 18 | Of course , the same was said of Bob Tway when he won four in 1986 ( including one that Norman should have won ) and that notion disappeared faster than Lord Lucan . |
| 19 | The line between the two is said to provide the justification for judicial review . |
| 20 | The two are said to be concerned over Sun 's ability to deliver code on time and suspect it may not prioritise their platforms over Sun 's own . |
| 21 | The two are said to be doubtful about Sun 's ability to deliver the code on time and they suspect the company may not give their systems priority over its own . |
| 22 | At that time Soutine was painting turbulent and violent landscapes and the two were said to have shared a studio at Cagnes-sur-Mer owned by a M. Nicolai , the proprietor of the general store . |
| 23 | Many of the dead were said to be members of anti-guerrilla vigilante self-defence organisations . |
| 24 | The mad are said to keep a film or stage set in their heads , which they order and art-decorate and move through . |
| 25 | In America the belligerent are said to be ‘ on the prod ’ , a reference to the cowboy employed in the stockyards to move cattle along with a pole tipped by a metal goad . |