Example sentences of "be said by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept everything that has been said by right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House about the need for a stronger line against terrorism . |
| 2 | It has been said by some writers that he had got caught up in an extravaganza far beyond both his intention and his control . |
| 3 | Indeed , it has been said by some professionals in the field that we are doing the students a disservice by attempting to break through their apathy since their main chance of happiness lies in their passive acceptance of traditional ‘ care ’ facilities . |
| 4 | In spite of all that has been said by popular moralists , along the lines of honesty being the best policy , everyone really knows implicitly that it is by this test of universalisability that one should determine what one ought to do . |
| 5 | Much of what has been said by Conservative Members today seems to be a rearguard attempt to protect the Home Secretary and his sinking reputation . |
| 6 | And has been said by several people who are here . |
| 7 | We the union are the back-up system as been said by previous speakers . |
| 8 | And molecules like this , amino acids are other examples , are said by structural chemists to have a ‘ chirality ’ , from the Greek word for hand . |
| 9 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 10 | It will be said by many that there is no rational way of doing the job , and that the lobbying and jockeying , demeaning as they may be , are unavoidable . |
| 11 | Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ . |
| 12 | Two student detainees who died in the week July 8-14 were said by official sources to have in one case jumped from the third floor and in the other to have died of wounds inflicted during arrest . |
| 13 | Numerous Polisario members were said by Moroccan sources to have similarly defected after the appeal by King Hassan of Morocco in November 1988 for all Polisario members with " good intentions " to go to Morocco as their " clement and forgiving … homeland " . |
| 14 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 15 | That is what is being said by many . |
| 16 | That is not being said by any other country or Government in the Community . |
| 17 | If one looks behind what is being said by both sides , there is in fact little that divides them . |
| 18 | A prayer is said by all before three long blasts are blown on the horn by the hornblower . |
| 19 | ( Miletus , which had led the original 490s revolt , is said by Herodotus to have been at her greatest prosperity then . ) |
| 20 | It is said by some to be more tiring physically than a paid job , by others to be less tiring : some women say it takes a greater emotional toll , others that the drain is less than other work . |
| 21 | Passing the crag rats who were climbing Cave Route Right Hand , I climbed my own bit of grade E6 over the tufa and out past the block of stone with a hole eroded through that is said by some to have been the lip of a water chute when the chasm was a cave . |
| 22 | Coming from the other direction , the internal auditor is said by some to have the right background in systems of control by may be , at least initially , too much focused on the , albeit increasingly onerous , financial and computer issues . |
| 23 | He is said by reliable sources to be negotiating with both the US and Iran for compensation to give up the business , playing one nation off against the other . |
| 24 | It was said by one snobbish acquaintance that — ‘ There is no honour in dining with Piper for he invites everyone . ’ |
| 25 | But it was said by many doubters that British Airways could never be privatised . |
| 26 | However deeply involved she might be in her own conversation she rarely missed anything that was said by those around her . |
| 27 | He was not scholastically talented , and was said by some of his students to be a poor lecturer : ‘ Never was there a more irregular course of lectures , so that we scarcely knew what he was talking about ’ . |
| 28 | Instead royal power passed now to Alhred , a representative , according to the Anglian genealogies , of a quite separate line of descent from Ida though the way one annalist observes that Alhred was said by some to be of the lineage of Ida implies that he was regarded by others as an intruder into the kingship ( see Appendix , Fig. 9 ) . |