Example sentences of "[is] said [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modular Windows , meanwhile , is said to preserve so many of the standard Windows APIs that you 'll soon be able to run PageMaker on your TV . |
| 2 | The chief significance of this from the ‘ separation of ownership and control ’ viewpoint is that it is said to restore ‘ integrity to the goal-specification and policing process ’ that is lost through the attenuation of shareholder control . |
| 3 | The country 's largest energy prospect is the A$11 billion North West Shelf gas venture off the coast of Western Australia and potential is said to exist for further large gas and liquid discoveries in the Cooper Basin which involves the development of 14 new gas fields and 6 new oil fields . |
| 4 | Cost-push inflation is said to exist when rising production costs are passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices , regardless of the state of demand in the economy . |
| 5 | A record is said to exist of a whipping which took place in 1624 , when a man was whipped to death . |
| 6 | When market forces alone are allowed to determine the exchange value of currencies , a free-floating exchange rate system is said to exist . |
| 7 | Constructive knowledge , which is said to exist were the accused ought to have realised that certain circumstances prevail and has failed to make the enquires a reasonable person would have made , is not applicable since ‘ knowingly ’ connotes either intention or a subjective awareness of the relevant facts . |
| 8 | This is said to exist where a company has a number of large shareholders who engage in limited co-operation to protect their common interests , but are insufficiently cohesive and lack the necessary co-ordination to give rise to majority or minority control . |
| 9 | And that there is said to exist , towards the far rim , a continent which though small is equal in weight to all the mighty landmasses in this hemi-circle ? |
| 10 | In the microeconomic market for a single good , an equilibrium is said to exist when the demand for the good is equal to the supply of it . |
| 11 | Made in the shape of two serpents , it is said to represent sin , and also the fact that there are two sides to every dispute ! |
| 12 | A bundle of qualities is said to represent a " complete complex of compresence " if all its qualities are " compresent " and if nothing external to the bundle is compresent with all the qualities within it . |
| 13 | A complete complex , in a psychological context , is said to represent " one total momentary experience " , while in a physical context , it represents a " space-time point-instant " . |
| 14 | This is said to represent an increase in real terms of 5 per cent , but this assumes an inflation rate of 5.75 per cent by the fourth quarter of 1990/91 and a rate of 3 per cent in 1992/93 . |
| 15 | First , the energy budget of predators is said to decrease with increasing weight , so that lions require ten times their own weight , whereas shrews require 100 times their own weight . |
| 16 | There is even a condition known as ‘ intensive care psychosis ’ which is said to affect about twenty per cent of those who have been patients in hospital intensive care units . |
| 17 | This complaint is said to affect one person in three over the age of 60 in the West . |
| 18 | In his memoirs he answers the charge : ‘ Some Tories , like me , are criticised for this supposed failing ( of being patrician ) which is said to lead to moral softness , in contrast with the toughness of those who have had to fight their way in life . |
| 19 | The rise of the corporate economy is said to lead to a ‘ gradual approximation of the state and society , of the public and private sphere ’ . |
| 20 | The types of behaviour to which this motivation is said to lead include employing a larger staff than is required for the purposes of the business , lavish expenditure on office accommodation , transport , and various forms of entertainment , and on image- building ( but not cost-justified ) advertising , and charitable giving . |
| 21 | Nowadays , most political scientists no longer praise the responsibility of our party system but instead talk of , and condemn , our system of " adversary politics " , where an " electoral auction " is said to lead to an irresponsible " elective dictatorship " , which then manages the economy in such a way as to create an injurious " political-business cycle " that hinders our long-term economic growth . |
| 22 | Within the Commons it is said to lead to constant petty squabbles ; the mindless negation of government through excessive ( and purely partisan and irresponsible ) opposition ; the oversimplification of complex issues into two ( and only two ) contrasting alternatives ; and the grand clash and confrontation of the cult of debate . |
| 23 | Studies by Le Page and Tabouret-Keller have provided a further critique on the continuum hypothesis , again denying the scalability of phonological and grammatical variables which is said to lead speakers on a unidirectional , one-step-at-a-time path from the basilect to the acrolect . |
| 24 | Some birds are sinister : the Carnero , a mean-spirited grey monster , is said to delight in picking out the eyeballs of shipwrecked sailors . |
| 25 | All this alarms the non-Kurdish Iraqi opposition ( although the Kurdish package is said to include promises on a free multi-party system ) . |
| 26 | The nursery rhyme then , comes from Tommy Thumb 's Pretty Song Book from around seventeen forty-four , and the division of bags , one for the master , one for the dame , one for the little boy who where wherever he is , lives down the lane , is said to refer to the export tax on wool , which was imposed as far back as twelve seventy-five , making even the outsider sheep of value . |
| 27 | When a minor term of the contract , called a warranty , is breached , the plaintiff may not repudiate the contract but only sue for damages ; breach of a warranty is said to sound in damages only . |
| 28 | Its distinctive call is said to sound like an unhappy goat . |
| 29 | Like classical theory , Marx 's proposal is said to yield various empirical predic-tions , so that time and experience will enable us to test both positions . |
| 30 | Here , the explanatory power of the assertion is reduced by the fact that a relation is said to hold between two very general terms — the peasantry and the state . |