Example sentences of "[noun pl] be said to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teenagers are said to be especially sensitive to the financial implications and aware of their own lack of power in the matter . |
| 2 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Opposition estimates of casualties were said to be much higher . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Since individuals are said to be altogether determined , constraints must be found to explain all their actions and intentions . |
| 9 | At the time when the income of many of the top charities is said to be either static , or to have fallen , it 's essential for public in the private sector , do not forsake their supporting role . |
| 10 | Restrictive measures have been directed at Third World manufacturers whose electronic and electrical products , garments , shoes , toys , sporting and household goods were said to be unfairly flooding vulnerable First World markets . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Despite their vivid appearance when seen in bright sunlight on open grassland , the zebras are said to be well camouflaged in broken cover at dawn and dusk , when predators are active and the light is dim . |
| 13 | The black mud from the sea shores is said to be very good for the skin . |
| 14 | In this case the liquids are said to be partially miscible . |
| 15 | Because a flat tangent space can always be drawn locally to any point in a Riemann space , Riemann spaces are said to be locally flat ( or locally Euclidean ) . |
| 16 | Players are said to be equally solid in their support for the union 's current case . |
| 17 | The fees charged by lawyers were said to be too high for ordinary people to afford . |
| 18 | Secular university choirs are said to be much better than church groups . |
| 19 | A TEACHER who was sacked because some of his lessons were said to be too sexually explicit has won £12,000 compensation for unfair dismissal . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Talks are said to be underway for a Tyson warm-up fight in Britain , plus the prospect of a £50 million showdown with WBC champion Lennox Lewis . |
| 22 | Some expressly did not want their money to go for weapons ; others were said to be so thrilled that they wanted their names on the missiles . |
| 23 | But corporation bosses are said to be privately seething . |