Example sentences of "[be] said to be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said to be a fundamental contradiction in the Weberian model of bureaucracy . |
| 2 | The two witnesses are said to be a retired Swiss shopkeeper who had business dealings with Mr Ryan in the early 1970s , and a British businessman who had dealings with Mr Ryan in Libya . |
| 3 | Evenings in the Jones household are said to be a nightmare . |
| 4 | Its radiation emissions are said to be a severe health risk to local residents . |
| 5 | I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’ |
| 6 | To that extent there may be said to be a mental element required for this variety of manslaughter , but it is a manifestly low mental element compared with the death which results . |
| 7 | Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator . |
| 8 | The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform . |
| 9 | There are many alternative implementations of trie memory , in fact the 26-way tree just described could be said to be a type of trie . |
| 10 | One of the best known of all British sociological studies , Young and Willmott 's Family and Kinship in East London ( 1957 ) , could be said to be a community study , though it has a specific focus and is based mainly , though not entirely , on data collected through a social survey . |
| 11 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 12 | By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one . |
| 13 | But how may this be said to be a Christology ? |
| 14 | When , however , its satisfactions depend upon the infliction of pain or damage upon an unwilling partner , the situation is again that of using a person as a mere object : the sadist ( or , sometimes , the masochist ) may genuinely be said to be a social and personal menace . |
| 15 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |
| 16 | X will be said to be a hyponym of Y ( and , by the same token , Y a superordinate of X ) if A is f(X) entails but is not entailed by A is f(Y) : |
| 17 | ‘ The case may be said to be a good example of the stringency with which the courts scrutinise transactions of guarantee entered into at the instance of a debtor who is likely to be in a position to exert influence on the surety and in circumstances in which the surety can derive no conceivable benefit from the transaction . |
| 18 | Indeed , it can be said to be a consequence , but also a cause , of the growth of the academic subject with which this book is concerned . |
| 19 | That can not be said to be a full description of reason within the disciplines , for they can not be sustained without values and judgement . |
| 20 | The Prince of Wales could hardly be said to be a good luck symbol at the moment . |
| 21 | There could be said to be a ‘ Structural crisis ’ for Europe over its position in the World in the immediate post-war period because it had become as Churchill said ‘ A rubble heap , a charnel house , a breeding ground of pestilence and hate ’ . |
| 22 | The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes . |
| 23 | In the Hassan family , carpet manufacturing could be said to be a team effort where one loads , another weaves and another would then inspect . |
| 24 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |
| 25 | To the extent that Catholic Secondary School pupils have received the Sacraments of Initiation and are living in a community of faith , catechesis can validly be said to be a function of the Catholic School . |
| 26 | A market can be said to be a place where buyers and sellers meet to make an exchange of goods ( or services ) . |
| 27 | English has no dental or labiodental plosive phonemes , so in these cases , although there is clearly assimilation , there could not be said to be a substitution of one phoneme for another . |
| 28 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 29 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 30 | Between men and women , too , there is said to be a barrier . |