Example sentences of "say to be [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead it turns out to be very much concerned with rhetoric , which can hardly be said to be new for this age or even essentially syntactic . |
| 2 | Some stolen cattle were transported from the Northern Band to supply the beef market at Kandy ; the Moors of Akurana , a few kilometres north of Kandy , were said to be involved in this trade . |
| 3 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 4 | For it is being questioned whether a symbol which would appear to be necessarily male can be said to be inclusive of all humanity . |
| 5 | He was also said to be unpopular with some members of the profession , although he was elected president of the London Veterinary Medical Society . |
| 6 | Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire . |
| 7 | Freud 's work has been said to be unusable for this reason — that is , that it , too , was based on a biased sample . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had first mentioned the concept of ego ideal in his paper ‘ On Narcissism ’ ( 1914 ) , and the notion of ego ideal is later said to be identical with that of super-ego in The Ego and the Id ( 1923 ) . |
| 10 | Why , even the Chancellor of the Exchequer is said to be worried at that . |
| 11 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 12 | These shapes are said to be common to each of the three pictures . |
| 13 | The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders . |
| 14 | This case arises from an undercover police operation said to be unique in this country . |