Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] is said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the sentence is said by PP ( said , never read ) , you immediately respond . |
| 2 | The court will not want the defendant to be liable indefinitely for damage and will impose a cut off point beyond which the damage is said to be too remote . |
| 3 | The churchyard is said to be the scene of a visitation from a ghost — reputedly a ‘ young man in black ’ , who caused the frantic barking by a dog one evening and then promptly disappeared ! |
| 4 | Behind the resignation is said to be her discontent with the management style of the American board and their way of treating her market . |
| 5 | The payment is said by the respondent not to have been ‘ voluntary ’ but ‘ forced ’ from it within the contemplation of the law … ‘ compulsion ’ in relation to a payment of which refund is sort , and whether it is also variously called ‘ coercion , ’ ‘ extortion , ’ ‘ exaction ’ or ‘ force , ’ includes every species of duress or conduct analogous to duress actual or threatened , exacted by or on behalf of the payee and applied to the person or the property or any right of the person who pays … . |
| 6 | It is hoped the slabs will block the conduit from which the main force of the lava is said to be bearing down ‘ like a train ’ , causing it to break up and cool . |
| 7 | The deal is said to be divided into two portions , with $3,000m for IBM itself and $1,600m for IBM Credit Corp . |
| 8 | The buying is said to be largely from America , where investors are beginning to take a more optimistic view of their economy while showing concern about renewed Middle East tension . |
| 9 | If the fedback signal opposes the input signal then the feedback is said to be negative . |
| 10 | In a similar way , if the fedback signal augments the input signal then the feedback is said to be positive . |
| 11 | The cell is said to be the remains of an ancient Carthaginian temple . |
| 12 | In July , looking thin and strained , the Princess is said to be suffering from post-natal depression during the Balmoral holidays . |
| 13 | The range is said to be from 3.2 to 4.2 and the period around 45 days , but I have never been able to make much periodicity out of it , and neither have I ever seen it brighter than magnitude 3.6 . |
| 14 | THE PRINCESS ROYAL announces her divorce and the Queen is said to be upset . |
| 15 | When the freight forwarder joins the cargo of one or more shippers to form a unit of shipment to be transported by one or more airlines , the cargo is said to be ‘ consolidated . ’ |
| 16 | Therefore the volume of the cube is said to be 1 cm3 . |
| 17 | A large circular flat stone on the green is said to be the remains of the market cross . |
| 18 | When this point is reached , the resin and thus the softner is said to be exhausted , and it is therefore necessary to regenerate the resin in order to restore its softening ability . |
| 19 | This double vision of the woman-goddess is said to be the mainspring of Shakespeare 's tragedies . |
| 20 | The difference is said to be one of place , the place of the sensation in the body qua sensitive . |
| 21 | If the enthalpy of the products is lower than the enthalpy of the reactants , the reaction is said to be exothermic ( see figure 5.4 ) . |
| 22 | If the enthalpy of the products is higher than the enthalpy of the reactants , the reaction is said to be endothermic . |
| 23 | The device is said to be |
| 24 | The planned partial flotation of Optus Pty Ltd , Sydney , Australia — expected to raise about $100m and release at least 5% of equity in the company — has been deferred until at least late 1994 : the reason for the delay is said to be to gain more detailed information about market share splits between Optus and the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corp , says the Australian Financial Review . |
| 25 | The Foundation is said to be motivated in setting things up like this to see the technologies can stand on their own . |
| 26 | It is a good Christian well now , and the water is said to be curative . |
| 27 | If the probability of being included is equal for each member of the relevant population then the sample is said to be a random one . |
| 28 | The King is said to be a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu . |
| 29 | The ratio is said to be a matter of ‘ commercial prudence ’ and is said to be ‘ non-mandatory ’ to distinguish it from the possible alternative , namely , that the ratio be written into banking law . |
| 30 | The name is said to be a tribute to 42-year-old Robbie 's screen idol Spencer Tracy . |