Example sentences of "[noun pl] be said to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schooldays are said to be the happiest days in your life but for Asian children in Britain they are often the harshest . |
| 2 | Other major weaknesses were said to be the emphasis on skilled employment , of either the apprenticed or respectable kind , and the individualist approach to the problem . |
| 3 | After all as one employer opined , " twelve years is said to be the maximum working life of a woman compositor " . |
| 4 | The source of these collections was said to be the papal registers . |
| 5 | The differences are said to be the following : |
| 6 | The self-regulation of the profession and the high standards demanded of its members are said to be the justification for the monopolies enjoyed by those engaging in the activity and by the restrictive practices permitted . |
| 7 | The key outstanding issues were said to be the establishment of a single army , modalities of a ceasefire , and elections . |
| 8 | Not surprising , then , that Soho 's fire-fighters are said to be the busiest in the world . |
| 9 | Main topics of the latest talks were said to be the new pluralist political system , a draft electoral law , and a timetable and monitoring arrangements for multiparty elections due to be held in 1992 . |
| 10 | As in previous attacks on the protesters , the real agents provocateurs are said to be the Western media egging on the rabble . |