Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] are said [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 2 | Several big British companies are said to be ‘ extremely interested ’ . |
| 3 | German firms are said to be dumping in Eastern Europe waste which it would be costly for them to dispose of in Germany itself , including radioactive uranium , used tyres and banned pesticides . |
| 4 | Similarly , the child fixated at the anal stage will develop an ‘ anal character ’ , whose most marked traits are said to be orderliness , parsimony and obstinacy . |
| 5 | ‘ Tin Can Island ’ proclaim the postage stamps , and old ones are said to be almost as sought after as British Guiana Triangulars or Penny Blacks . |
| 6 | Changes in social structure are said to be overdetermined by numerous contradictions . |
| 7 | PLATFORM-soled shoes are said to be coming back . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If autonomous actions are said to be uncaused ( and hence undetermined ) they are left completely mysterious , and the prospects for individualism as a set of explanatory theories look very weak indeed . |
| 10 | The established professions are said to be based upon an underlying logic which is essentially instrumental ; the individual is seen as an instance of a general category . |
| 11 | At the time of writing ( Oct 77 ) the Japanese MSDF are said to be interested in fifteen aircraft to replace its mixed fleet of thirty-four prop driven aircraft . |
| 12 | Natural products are said to be … |
| 13 | Some 300 native applications are said to be in the process of moving to Solaris x86 . |
| 14 | Kloska 's findings echo those in other research ( e.g. Docking 1980 , Dunham 1977 , Kyriacou and Sutcliffe 1981 ) which record an increasing sense of occupational stress of which the predominant sources are said to be classroom control and pupil misbehaviour . |
| 15 | Some of the conventional munitions are said to be equivalent in immediate destructiveness to nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | Human beings are said to be slaves of habit . |
| 17 | The causal items are said to be active , to be productive , to be geneses , to have potency or efficacy . |
| 18 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 19 | The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders . |
| 20 | Advance orders are said to be pouring in for the LP Portrait and single Blue Days . |
| 21 | Subjective assessments are said to be less acceptable , but I offer mine , nevertheless , drawn from my own studies of the literature of the project ( including one evaluation so far completed ) , from talks with project workers and brief visits to schools . |
| 22 | Sir Derek Alun-Jones , chairman of Ferranti , and some other directors of the troubled group are said to be ready to resign in February once a share issue to raise £187 million in finance for the group is agreed by shareholders .. |
| 23 | Very short heats are said to be linked with low ovulation rates . |
| 24 | The overt acts of the alleged conspiracy are said to be set out in the statement of claim . |
| 25 | The spectral type is F. In general F-stars are said to be yellowish , but I have never seen any colour in Canopus , either with the naked eye or with optical aid ; to me it looks pure white . |
| 26 | church in the Strand , so named because various Danish Kings are said to be buried there . |
| 27 | Today Iraq 's bomb-making plants are said to be dispersed and hardened against attack from the air . |
| 28 | Most trivial arguments are said to be based on matters of principle . |
| 29 | Forty well organised criminal groups are said to be smuggling works of art out of Russia . |
| 30 | All those serving at Upper Heyford are said to be shocked . |