Example sentences of "[noun pl] be say to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Before we plunge into that debate we ought to recognize that recruitment to elite positions in the public and private sectors is said to be highly meritocratic . |
| 32 | The largest sustained activity by heads in primary schools is said to be teaching . |
| 33 | Between 200 and 500 miners are said to be inside the park , polluting it with mercury , and local politicians appear reluctant to remove them . |
| 34 | PLATFORM-soled shoes are said to be coming back . |
| 35 | Several big British companies are said to be ‘ extremely interested ’ . |
| 36 | Both television companies are said to be losing a lot of money on baseball . |
| 37 | HyperSparc 's integer and floating point chips are said to be complete — the instruction cache unit will be finished within a week , the company says . |
| 38 | Furthermore , these circumstances are said to be essentially heterogeneous , so that they can not be seen as aspects of one large contradiction ; each is a contradiction within a particular social totality . |
| 39 | The footsteps are said to be those of an unfortunate platelayer who was killed shortly after the introduction of the electric trains . |
| 40 | Opposition estimates of casualties were said to be much higher . |
| 41 | Both defendants were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |
| 42 | Robert Knolles , whose origins were said to be very humble , made a fortune out of war service in the 1350s and 1360s , and may be taken as typical of the successful captains with no inherited wealth who raised themselves by their military skills . |
| 43 | Some big bids were said to be arriving late in the day , pointing towards further gains on Monday if Wall Street continued to hold steady . |
| 44 | The three remaining Sunni factions were said to be refusing to talk to Kabul . |
| 45 | The imports were said to be stifling local recycling industries . |
| 46 | In the Soviet Union , central state control of the curriculum and syllabuses is said to be ‘ virtually total ’ . |
| 47 | Some 300 native applications are said to be in the process of moving to Solaris x86 . |
| 48 | Beef , Chicken , Vegetable and Low-Fat Granular Beef flavours are said to be high in meat , chicken or vegetable extracts . |
| 49 | Both this novel and the one which it resumes are ‘ hung ’ books , in the sense that Parliaments are said to be hung . |
| 50 | Workers are said to be rationed in the labour market and firms are said to be rationed in the commodity market . |
| 51 | The nuclei of certain atoms resemble tops in that they have an intrinsic angular momentum — or spin , such atoms are said to be polarised when they are all spinning in the same direction . |
| 52 | Today Iraq 's bomb-making plants are said to be dispersed and hardened against attack from the air . |
| 53 | Leibniz 's view is that the sources of individuation lie within the entities themselves ; in other words , entities are regarded as basic , and places are said to be explicable in terms of relations between entities — " entities " meaning here " individual substances " or " monads " . |
| 54 | Surfers are said to be as exclusive in their manners as the upper classes they have replaced , talking only among themselves and inevitably spending a good deal of their time incommunicado offshore . |
| 55 | The President 's economists are said to be worried about the costs . |
| 56 | Since individuals are said to be altogether determined , constraints must be found to explain all their actions and intentions . |
| 57 | Questions about actions are defined as those which seek to establish facts ; questions which explicitly or implicitly seek to criticize individual officials are said to be directed at their conduct . |
| 58 | The Bank has quadrupled its investment in environmental projects over the past year , from US$404 million to US$1,600 million , but critics charge that the money is being used to make projects look green rather than cancelling bad projects , which Bank officials are said to be reluctant to do . |
| 59 | Banks are said to be concerned that they could be liable for pollution from land or property they take as security , and insurers say they may not be able to offer environmental cover in future , restricting coverage to sudden or accidental pollution . |
| 60 | Observers were said to be surprised at the decision to hold elections during the Christmas holiday period , when most Kenyans with jobs in cities would have returned to their rural homes in areas where they had not necessarily registered to vote . |