Example sentences of "what be said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the appellants seek orders that , because of the Secretary of State 's failure to comply with what are said to be the requirements as I have set them out , the decisions made in relation to each of the appellants as to their respective tariffs should be quashed . |
| 2 | ‘ And what are said to be her feelings about him ? ’ |
| 3 | Do n't make the fatal mistake of assuming other people think as logically as you do , or even hear what 's said to them . |
| 4 | It seems that although English greenswards remained innocent of South Africans , score cards from agreed events were exchanged through the mails in what is said to be a contravention of the Gleneagles Agreement . |
| 5 | She may find it difficult to raise this personally more pressing problem , but until the adviser acknowledges her priorities , Sally may not absorb what is said to her . |
| 6 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 7 | You will only find out what you need to know by really listening to what is said to you . |
| 8 | As we mentioned in the first chapter of this book , egalitarian marriage is now widely promoted as an ideal , but recent research indicates that there is a wide gulf between what is said to be happening in terms of sharing in marriage and what actually happens . |
| 9 | For them , the person of good character has what is said to be the imagination to live tranquilly , or literally ‘ the wizardry to live tranquilly ’ ( mariya adiunaku ) . |
| 10 | He is particularly interested in the way that words and sentences change their meaning according to the context in which they are said and heard , and in the ways in which we all fill in the unspoken background of what is said to us . |
| 11 | To understand the meaning of what is said to us is a cultural accomplishment that we take for granted . |
| 12 | The correlation between a legal obligation on the one hand and a subjective right on the other admits of no exception ; as distinct from what is said to be the situation in municipal law , there are certainly no obligations incumbent on a subject which are not matched by an international subjective right of another subject or subjects , or even … of the totality of the other subjects of the law of nations . |
| 13 | What to me seems surprising is that M. Oliver , who presumably supplied the recipes for the Le Creuset leaflet , does not give what is said to be the old and traditional fondue of Franche-Comté , a dish in every respect superior to its primitive Swiss counterpart , having both greater finesse of flavour and texture and far less brutally indigestible qualities . |
| 14 | Using this assumption , combined with general knowledge of the world , the receiver can reason from the literal , semantic meaning of what is said to the pragmatic meaning and induce what the sender is intending to do with his or her words . |
| 15 | The enclosure movement gave us much of what is said to be the traditional English landscape . |
| 16 | As Hopwood states ( 1982 , p. 43 ) : ‘ Familiarity with experience elsewhere should instil a greater realization of the differences between what should be done and what is said to be done , and what is done and what might be done . ’ |
| 17 | The patient is able to understand , but not repeat , what is said to him . |
| 18 | The person to whom it is addressed can not be expected to conduct a minute linguistic analysis of what is said to him where this is accompanied by aggressive gestures . |
| 19 | Above all , understanding an utterance involves the making of inferences that will connect what is said to what is mutually assumed or what has been said before . |
| 20 | However , one question , to which there is a clear answer is what is said to be the plaintiff 's life expectancy . |
| 21 | Mr no doubt of what is said to be the divine preference for called three . |
| 22 | Not only is it possible to get an accurate computer analysis of the fundamental frequency of speech ( which can be displayed on a screen for someone doing practice on intonation , or can be used in the study of the intonation of large samples of natural speech ) , but it is now possible to get a computer to produce a simple phonetic transcription of what is said to it . |
| 23 | So far , rather surprisingly in view of his family 's origins , he says very little , but he obviously understand much of what is said to him . |
| 24 | And this depends on our having very powerful and general rules in our minds for relating what is said to the broader context . |
| 25 | Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the streets of Bratislava last night in what was said to be the biggest demonstration there in decades . |
| 26 | Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the streets of Bratislava last night in what was said to be the biggest demonstration there in decades . |
| 27 | If , for example , the reasons described seem unfair or conflict with what was said to you at the time of your dismissal , and you are eligible for unfair dismissal rights , the next step might be for you to make a complaint to the industrial tribunal . |
| 28 | They had so few experienced seamen on board that an English prisoner was released from his chains to take the helm of one vessel during what was said to be the worst storm for 20 years . |
| 29 | The row followed publication of what was said to be the Queen 's full message in The Sun newspaper . |
| 30 | Over a century ago Broca demonstrated that patients with damage involving part of the prefrontal cortex of the left hemisphere had severe speech deficits , although they could understand what was said to them . |