Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] said to " in BNC.
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| 31 | They are said to be generally positive to the takeover but still need to achieve certain comfort levels . |
| 32 | They are said to be ‘ regressive ’ : they bear most heavily on those with low incomes since the key element is the value of the property not the occupier 's ability to pay . |
| 33 | They are said to be unfair . |
| 34 | Local authorities have no powers except those conferred upon them by statute , and when they take action which is not sanctioned by the law they are said to be acting ultra vires ( beyond the powers ) . |
| 35 | They are said to be yellow or mottled brown in colour , often with seaweed-like manes . |
| 36 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
| 37 | They are said to be exothermic compounds . |
| 38 | Since households can not sell their notional supply of labour services , i.e. , they are said to be rationed in the labour market . |
| 39 | If they are forced to , they are said to be ‘ in the Bank ’ . |
| 40 | They are said to be similar to material distributed previously by Mr Round . |
| 41 | The Nairacs , now in their eighties , declined to comment , but they 're said to be hopeful that one day they WILL be able to give their son a proper burial . |
| 42 | His estranged wife and two children lived nearby , they 're said to be on holiday at the moment . |
| 43 | They 're said to be concerned , though , about the effect all the publicity is having on the boy . |
| 44 | Recent reports have suggested some local authorities are putting pressure on the government to settle early and avoid huge payouts ; they 're said to be concerned that if the case is drawn out , more haemophiliacs will die , and in the event of the ruling going against the government , relatives will be eligible for compensation . |
| 45 | In no sense could they be said to be members of industrial co-operatives : that is , of organisations set up for the manufacture of goods or the provision of services and wholly , or very largely , owned and ultimately controlled by those working in them . |
| 46 | However they were said to be ‘ furious ’ that the Scottish Office , the local community health specialist and the water suppliers had reassured people that there was no risk to health . |
| 47 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 48 | They were said to be fearless swordsmen and able to shoot a man between the eyes at a hundred paces . |
| 49 | They were said to be ‘ OK but distressed and exhausted ’ . |
| 50 | Relatives from east London travelled to the funeral via Upton Park , where they were said to ‘ overwhelmed ’ by West Ham supporters ' floral tributes to Moore , who died last week from cancer at the age of 51 . |
| 51 | Not only were the garotters thought to be visiting hot-blooded Neapolitan outrage upon English soil , but on other occasions they were said to be ‘ like the sanguinary fanatics of the French Revolution ’ as well as resembling the ‘ Indian ‘ thuggee' ’ ’ . |
| 52 | When such ‘ dispositive ’ or ‘ objective ’ regimes were accepted as being in the general public interest they were said to be binding erga omnes . |
| 53 | Compared to glassfibre boats they were said to be heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and , because they bent rather than broke , dangerous . |
| 54 | They were said to be shaped like squid or octopuses , with many arms that could pluck men from ships , and even drag whole boats to the bottom of the sea . |
| 55 | And also as you said , the thing with colours , they were said to perhaps use less basic colour terms , so if some men were shown a bluey-green some men would say and some would say whereas a women allegedly would say turquoise or whatever . |
| 56 | They were said to be behind the acts of violence against the opposition parties , against the minorities , and against peaceful demonstrators . |
| 57 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 58 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 59 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 60 | Now can it be said to be clear by the law of Scotland that the locus here is beyond what the legislature may assert right to affect by legislation against all whomsoever for the purpose of regulating methods of fishing ? |