Example sentences of "[is] say to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between men and women , too , there is said to be a barrier . |
| 2 | The plant is said to be a state-of-the-art facility that forms transistors onto large glass substrates , in a class-100 clean room that has the similar level of air cleanliness to those used in the manufacture of LSI chips . |
| 3 | The King is said to be a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu . |
| 4 | Sex on Sweeney 's cannibal isle is said to be a business of being ‘ bored ’ , but the horror of the perception takes it out of mere ‘ boredom ’ , which was killing the Melanesians and , Eliot thought , the modern world . |
| 5 | It seems that although English greenswards remained innocent of South Africans , score cards from agreed events were exchanged through the mails in what is said to be a contravention of the Gleneagles Agreement . |
| 6 | The Labour candidate , Mrs Sylvia Heal , who rarely departed from script , is said to be a personal friend of Mr Kinnock . |
| 7 | Poland , one year after starting a strict anti-inflation programme , is said to be a particularly terrible place . |
| 8 | There is said to be a grandmother at Ross Carbery who can sing the whole of ‘ The Battle of Ross Carbery ’ , another local ballad . |
| 9 | But working near the top of the BBC is said to be a nightmare , with Checkland a lame-duck , Birt not speaking out and Hussey acting like an executive . |
| 10 | As recently as 1980 Cash became addicted to morphine after an operation to crushed ribs sustained in a fight with an ostrich ( his home in Hendersonville , Tennessee , is said to be a real menagerie ) . |
| 11 | In most countries the other sexually transmitted diseases are not reported , but , where they are , there is said to be a general increase in all infections , particularly non-specific urethritis . |
| 12 | It is said to be a luminous and dynamic nature capable of independent existence apart from its physical counterpart . |
| 13 | It is said to be a nervous fish and it will probably benefit from the presence of other fish — acting as dither fish — to give it confidence . |
| 14 | The name is said to be a tribute to 42-year-old Robbie 's screen idol Spencer Tracy . |
| 15 | Jacquetta , the queen 's mother , is said to be a witch . |
| 16 | A problem shared , after all , is said to be a problem halved . |
| 17 | This is said to be a future three star route . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Membership of the Public Windows Initiative is said to be a condition of taking a WABI licence — all licensees are understood to have been sworn to secrecy under the direst of imprecations . |
| 20 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 21 | Stateside gossip has it that Hitachi Ltd will announce a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ within the next 30 days : possibilities are either OSF/1 on its existing M-series mainframes , or the first fruits of its efforts with Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC , which is said to be a RISC-based Unix co-processor for the IBM-compatible mainframes . |
| 22 | There is said to be a rough period of about 100 days , but I have never been able to confirm this . |
| 23 | Although the tasks that make up housework are dissimilar , there is said to be a ‘ sameness ’ about them which derives from their frequent need to be repeated , their lack of intrinsic meaning , and the impermanence of the goals they achieve . |
| 24 | Many baby orangs are caught in the forests of Indonesia and taken by ship to Taiwan , where they are sold as pets , shop props and showbiz gimmicks — so many , in fact , that there is said to be a greater density of orangs in Taiwan 's capital city , Taipei , than in their own habitat . |
| 25 | There is said to be a Slovene General 4,000 Serbs 4,000 White Russians Probably the same as those which attempted to surrender to us two nights ago . |
| 26 | The term " Urgonian " has become almost a dirty word in Cretaceous stratigraphy , for it is not one of the internationally accepted stage names and it is said to be a diachronous , southern facies . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is said to be a sort of fluorescent greenish-yellow purple . ) |
| 29 | If the statement does not become incorporated into the contract it is said to be a representation ; something said in the course of the negotiations leading up to the contract itself . |
| 30 | This artist 's impression is said to be a good likeness of the attacker who 's thought to be in his late 30s and has a pot belly . |