Example sentences of "[pron] be said to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lifetime employment and seniority wages which are said to be the two defining features of the Japanese labour market , are closely related . |
| 2 | For instance , in South-Eastern fashion , I name that commodity the love of which is said to be the root of all evil as ‘ munny ’ ; my Birmingham friend calls it ‘ mon-ay . ’ |
| 3 | On Monday , the Assembly Rooms will open its doors on arts exhibition which is said to be the biggest ever promoted locally . |
| 4 | In Florida , Miami 's POSLogic Corp is soon to announce its first product , the POSLogic 5000 Point of Sale System , which is said to be the first Unix-based system to incorporate both hardware and software as a fully integrated product , although NCR Corp , which has been slipping Unix processors in under its point-of-sale systems for several years , while making Unix invisible to the retailer , might demur . |
| 5 | A budget maximizing strategy is inconsistent with the aim of survival which is said to be the rational foundation for such a strategy ( Breton and Wintrobe 1979 ) . |
| 6 | I could understand the term ‘ genetic engineering ’ — well , as long as nobody asked me to speak for a minute without hesitation or deviation — and I recognized ‘ DNA ’ , which was said to be the basic stuff of life . |
| 7 | From August onwards the newspapers were over-flowing with the exploits of the various gangs in London : the ‘ Lion Boys ’ from the Lion and Lamb in Clerkenwell ; the so-called ‘ Clerkenwell ‘ pistol Gang' ’ ’ ; the ‘ Girdle Gang ’ which took its name from Thomas , alias ‘ Tuxy ’ , Girdle ; the ‘ Somers Town Gang ’ who were said to be the pests of Euston Road and Gower Street ; the ‘ Pinus Gang ’ who infested Leather Lane and Clerkenwell ; the ‘ Drury Lane Boys ’ ; the notorious ‘ Waterloo Road Gang ’ ; the ‘ Pickett Gang ’ ; , ‘ McNab 's ’ ; the ‘ Rest Gang ’ ; the ‘ Fulham Boys ’ ; the ‘ Chelsea Boys ’ ; the ‘ Velvet Cap Gang ’ ; the ‘ Plaid-Cap Brigade ’ from Poplar ; the gangs who romped around King Street and Great Church Lane in Hammersmith and who were said to be ‘ not ‘ Hooligans ’ ’ but worse' ; and many others , including a band of youngsters who had adopted the dare-devil title of the ‘ Dick Turpin Gang ’ . |
| 8 | She 's said to be the daughter of a English general and apparently very beautiful … a good bit younger than him , of course . ’ |
| 9 | A GHOST who is said to be the guardian spirit of Somerset orchards , in south-western England . |
| 10 | It was built around the shrine of Saint Alban , a Roman centurion who is said to be the first person in Britain to be executed for the Christian faith . |
| 11 | She was said to be the most beautiful girl in the whole island , with a fair complexion , blue eyes and golden-brown hair . |
| 12 | She was said to be the most handicapped person in Britain at that time , since , due to a rare muscular disease , she was paralysed throughout her whole body except in her big toe . |
| 13 | It is said to be the most photographed village in Norway . |
| 14 | It is said to be the tree on which Judas Iscariot hanged himself , after which its pink blossom turned dark red in shame . |
| 15 | It is said to be the only tide mill in western Europe that is still operating . |
| 16 | Called Tickford Bridge , it is said to be the oldest iron bridge in Britain still in constant use . |
| 17 | It is said to be the longest-lived of the British dairy and dual-purpose breeds ; it is also hardy and with a low incidence of metabolic disease . |
| 18 | The agreement is also seen as a landmark in that it is said to be the first time that Apple has licensed Macintosh technology under such an OEM agreement , terms of which were not disclosed . |
| 19 | It is said to be the philosophy of government administrators , dangerous in their hands , corrupting treated as the basis of private morality . |
| 20 | It is said to be the smallest complete X Terminal design available , covering just under 50 square inches of broad space . |
| 21 | Dating from the seventeenth century , it is said to be the largest antique one-handed clock in existence . |
| 22 | His description of the group culminates in the famous formulation of the " perfect law of art " of which it is said to be the embodiment : |
| 23 | At this point , the DC is in state CREATED and the user who created it is said to be the ‘ associated user ’ . |
| 24 | It was said to be the site of the shrine of the goddess Mumba Devi or Maha Amba who gave her name to Bombay . |
| 25 | ‘ It was said to be the most brilliant Court in the western world . |
| 26 | It was said to be the first house since Roman times to have central heating : over three miles of piping were used but there was no chimney in the house itself . |
| 27 | It was said to be the last performances of the long-running tour of Shirley Valentine . |
| 28 | The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding . |
| 29 | All the appellants seek orders that , because of the Secretary of State 's failure to comply with what are said to be the requirements as I have set them out , the decisions made in relation to each of the appellants as to their respective tariffs should be quashed . |
| 30 | For them , the person of good character has what is said to be the imagination to live tranquilly , or literally ‘ the wizardry to live tranquilly ’ ( mariya adiunaku ) . |