Example sentences of "[noun] have been said [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It has been suggested that pressure of a moral obligation as justification is the basis of Brimelow v. Casson , though the case has been said to stand alone and there are conflicting dicta on moral obligation . |
| 2 | In a positive sense active citizenship has been said to involve voluntary work , local initiative and payment of one 's civic dues in service , not just cash . |
| 3 | ( Johnnie 's impotence has been said to reflect Fugard 's own frustration at not being able to change South African society through his writings . ) |
| 4 | In Spain , the policies of the enterprises controlled by the holding company INI have been said to follow those of their private sector counterparts , to the detriment of the national interest in areas such as pricing policy and import controls ( e.g. Tamames 1986 : 177–80 ) . |
| 5 | Its characters have been said to sound English . |
| 6 | The growth of home ownership even among the less well off in Britain has been said to have created a ‘ corps of working-class capitalists , a new type of property-owning bourgeoisie … . ’ |
| 7 | His zeal has been said to border on the autocratic , especially on the sets of his films . |
| 8 | This call has been said to sound like " go back , go back " , but to me it always sounds like a duck laughing ( to be honest I 've never heard a duck laughing , so I 'm probably totally wrong ) . |
| 9 | The career of one of his Foreign Office contemporaries had been said to have foundered after he said ‘ Pepper and salt ’ to the wife of a diplomat with uncertainly coloured hair and a poor command of the English language . |