Example sentences of "said to be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easter alternative AS AN alternative to chocolate eggs , try a simnel cake , said to be an Easter favourite since the time of Edward the Confessor . |
| 2 | She particularly disliked marjoram — an essence used for grief , said to be an anti-aphrodisiac . |
| 3 | The signs at first sight seem to be completely different from those of other scripts found in Minoan Crete , and they are often for this reason said to be an import : the disc itself is sometimes explained away as a foreign curiosity . |
| 4 | If an operator 0 turns a vector V into a multiple v of itself , unc then the vector Vis said to be an eigenvector of O with eigenvalue v. |
| 5 | Dr Hugh Dalton , MP for Peckham and later to become Attlee 's first Chancellor , had already been chosen to succeed Ben Spoor said to be an alcoholic in the Co Durham constituency . |
| 6 | Currie give a debut to the 18-year-old Forrester stand-off , John Morrison , said to be an outstanding prospect , for their home match against Kilmarnock , while Duncan Macrae has recovered from a broken leg and reappears at full-back in the Boroughmuir XV away to West Hartlepool . |