Example sentences of "is said [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | It seems that although English greenswards remained innocent of South Africans , score cards from agreed events were exchanged through the mails in what is said to be a contravention of the Gleneagles Agreement . |
| 32 | In a country where one in four is said to be an informer or member of the secret police , if the present order breaks down there will be a lot of old scores to be settled . |
| 33 | Squire Western is said to be modelled on Philip Bennet , and the heroine of Tom Jones on his daughter Ann . |
| 34 | Support is said to be flooding in . |
| 35 | Mr Watkins is said to be keener on education than energy — indeed the NES includes plans to improve science education . |
| 36 | Mr Gandhi is said to be horrified by the stiff budget in prospect . |
| 37 | The Labour candidate , Mrs Sylvia Heal , who rarely departed from script , is said to be a personal friend of Mr Kinnock . |
| 38 | Although Kuwait , without oil revenues and faced with a tremendous rebuilding task , is said to be short of ready cash , the ambassador made it clear that his country is keen on buying the RTC 's interest in both the Phoenician and Crescent hotels ( another Keating project ) . |
| 39 | Another student , also beaten , is said to be in a coma . |
| 40 | Sonia might be persuaded to keep a seat warm for her daughter : Priyanka is only 20 ( the minimum age for a seat in the lower house is 25 ) but is said to be sharp and keen on politics . |
| 41 | C. Itoh is said to be the largest creditor , having lent Asahi Juken around ¥50 billion . |
| 42 | A chamber-pot is said to be on offer with Mozart on the outside and Salieri inside ; and in the bookshops , serious biographical and analytical works are well hidden under a catch-crop of sugary Mozart nostalgia . |
| 43 | Poland , one year after starting a strict anti-inflation programme , is said to be a particularly terrible place . |
| 44 | The prime minister , by contrast , is said to be against more spending cuts . |
| 45 | Radioactive dust is said to be escaping from 800 pits in the area in which dangerously contaminated debris was buried soon after the accident . |
| 46 | Some $350m is said to be in Swiss banks . |
| 47 | Speaking in tongues , as the disciples did at the original Pentecost , is said to be commonplace . |
| 48 | We are young and youth is said to be fickle , mutable , and we have both looked at the possibility of ourselves not being exceptions to that supposed rule . |
| 49 | When ‘ man ’ , ‘ stone ’ , or ‘ living creature ’ is said to be ‘ universal ’ , we are not to understand that ‘ man , stone ’ , etc. ever was or can be universal , but only that these words , ‘ living creature ’ , ‘ stone ’ , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things . |
| 50 | The marriage of a person who has been judicially declared insane is totally void , and the same is said to be true of any disposition of property made by such a person . |
| 51 | In the latter case , if the wife or husband dies without issue the tenant is said to be tenant in tail , ‘ after possibility of issue extinct ’ , and his rights are substantially no greater than those of a tenant for life . |
| 52 | One is said to be for the Lord and the other for Azazel . |
| 53 | Much attention has been focused on the concept of ‘ reasonable excuse ’ , where the courts have attempted to impose a fairly stringent test on persons whose reason for carrying a weapon is said to be fear of attack . |
| 54 | It has a catalytic converter , of course , and is said to be 80% recyclable , so you do n't know where a bit of BMW will pop up next . |
| 55 | One well-known television personality is said to be rather hard on the teleprompter operators . |
| 56 | It is a good Christian well now , and the water is said to be curative . |
| 57 | There is said to be a grandmother at Ross Carbery who can sing the whole of ‘ The Battle of Ross Carbery ’ , another local ballad . |
| 58 | Such an enzyme is said to be ‘ allosteric ’ : it can exist in two forms . |
| 59 | This double vision of the woman-goddess is said to be the mainspring of Shakespeare 's tragedies . |
| 60 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |