Example sentences of "it be said to " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is said to be easy to upgrade and service because it 's based on standard uniprocessor 50MHz 80486 EISA bus hardware . |
| 32 | It is said to be the philosophy of government administrators , dangerous in their hands , corrupting treated as the basis of private morality . |
| 33 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 34 | It is said to be the smallest complete X Terminal design available , covering just under 50 square inches of broad space . |
| 35 | M67 is in the field with Alpha ( 4.2 ) ; it is said to be visible with the naked eye , but I have never been able to confirm this , though with binoculars it is very easy indeed . |
| 36 | U , of spectral type M , appears to be irregular , with a range of from 5.6 to 7.5 ; EU ranges from 6.0 to 6.9 , and is also of type M. It is said to be semi-regular , with a period of around 60 days , but I have never been at all confident about this . |
| 37 | It is said to be visible with binoculars , but I have never been able to see it without a telescope . |
| 38 | It is said to be slightly yellowish , though I have never seen any colour in it either with the naked eye or with binoculars . |
| 39 | Dating from the seventeenth century , it is said to be the largest antique one-handed clock in existence . |
| 40 | It is said to be shorter in Angoras than dairy goats . |
| 41 | Naltrexone is an anti-euphoriant which masks any pleasure from subsequent use of opiate drugs and it is said to be non-addictive . |
| 42 | Now , the constitution as it " really " is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , only really line up in times of political ( and therefore constitutional ) stability when there is agreement on clear and simple constitutional fundamentals . |
| 43 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 44 | His description of the group culminates in the famous formulation of the " perfect law of art " of which it is said to be the embodiment : |
| 45 | The term " Urgonian " has become almost a dirty word in Cretaceous stratigraphy , for it is not one of the internationally accepted stage names and it is said to be a diachronous , southern facies . |
| 46 | Third , the less ‘ verbish ’ the verbs in the poem are , the greater their lexical power tends to be , lexical power being in inverse proportion to the number of different terms with which a given term is habitually associated ( ‘ the fewer the items with which a given item is likely to collocate … the more ‘ powerful ’ it is said to be ’ ) ; and the more powerful , and less ‘ verbish ’ , words are ‘ items of violence ’ , such as ‘ staggering ’ . |
| 47 | It is said to be a sort of fluorescent greenish-yellow purple . ) |
| 48 | From heavy use in earlier years ( it is said to be an old droving road ) , the path 's formation had sunk , so that in places there are banks on both sides , a perfect place for water to collect . |
| 49 | Where a relationship is linked to two entities ( as in the case of the examples in figure 3.3 ) , it is said to be binary . |
| 50 | If a relationship is linked to three entities , as in figure 3.8 , it is said to be ternary . |
| 51 | If a business makes both exempt and taxable supplies , it is said to be partially exempt and will be able to recover only part of the input VAT . |
| 52 | It is said to be thinking of appointing a special envoy to the interim government set up in February in the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |
| 53 | At this point , the DC is in state CREATED and the user who created it is said to be the ‘ associated user ’ . |
| 54 | If the statement does not become incorporated into the contract it is said to be a representation ; something said in the course of the negotiations leading up to the contract itself . |
| 55 | It is said to be ‘ a frantic cocktail of hardcore , funk and psychedelic country acappella from the North 's third best band ’ . |
| 56 | For example , if the values of c and v lie in the area ABC ( say , c = 0.5 and v = 0.5 as at point E ) then any exogenous change in consumption or investment will generate a damped cycle like that illustrated in Fig. 4 ; it is said to be damped because the fluctuations in real output become smaller and smaller over time . |
| 57 | Organised by Brian and Anna Houghton , the London ceramics dealers who have launched two highly regarded specialist fairs in London during the past few years , it offered New Yorkers two innovations ; an expert vetting committee , which checked that every item was genuinely what it was said to be — there had never been vetting in America before — and a showcase in their own city of top European dealers ' wares . |
| 58 | It was said to be Mrs Thatcher 's favourite television programme — indeed , she actually took part in a rehearsal . |
| 59 | When it was said to him , ‘ Try to look on God ’ , he answered , ‘ I was trying to make a little prayer , but my cough hindered me . ’ ’ |
| 60 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |