Example sentences of "said [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | A certain number of members must be present before a meeting is said to be quorate and can proceed . |
| 62 | These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet . |
| 63 | Sponsors Dunlop are said to be unhappy with it and wanted it axed from the 1993 calendar . |
| 64 | Raw garlic is said to be preferable to kill bacteria and boost immune functioning . |
| 65 | No area of the law can ever be said to be easy but the legislation dealing with obscene and indecent publications seems to be unduly complicated . |
| 66 | It is said to be easy to upgrade and service because it 's based on standard uniprocessor 50MHz 80486 EISA bus hardware . |
| 67 | The Intel version shares the capabilities of the portable source Unix version and is said to be easy to install . |
| 68 | The Intel version shares the capabilities of the portable source Unix version and is said to be easy to install . |
| 69 | It is said to be easy to upgrade and service because it 's based on standard uniprocessor 50MHz 80486 EISA bus hardware . |
| 70 | Her replacement had proved a sad disappointment to the French soldiery , besides which the management and composer alike were said to be dissatisfied with the work in its present form . |
| 71 | Its teeth were said to be venomous , its flesh poisonous , its hair lethal ( causing suffocation if a few were accidentally swallowed ) , and its breath infectious , destroying human lungs and causing consumption . |
| 72 | Although not said to be X500-compliant , Novell Network Registry is ‘ fully compatible ’ with Novell products and those of partners throughout the network . |
| 73 | Some stolen cattle were transported from the Northern Band to supply the beef market at Kandy ; the Moors of Akurana , a few kilometres north of Kandy , were said to be involved in this trade . |
| 74 | Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt . |
| 75 | I 'm grateful , that 's for today , erm my Lord it may sound slightly more erm contentious , but I 'd also ask for certificate for counsel for the thirteenth of August hearing , may I say the reason for that , it 's a matter that has n't come before you , you wo n't know about , it 's this , this reason , because at that period it was n't just the application under twenty eighty or twenty eight , four for delay there was another application er , which was unsuccessful which has n't been proceed today , but cost were also disallowed with more serious reason , I submit that said showed er negligent or that improper conduct , there was a substantial attack mounted , and I can use no other words fairly describe it on the professional conduct of and for that reason my Lord er both cos the seriousness of the allegations , but of course also because of the potential conflict that they acted for themselves and it would of been in situation for us solicitor hence to turn up , er they instructed counsel and my self , and so for that double reason in my believe we should be entitled to at , at first stage , ordinarily I would n't of had a very good run for argument but I , it 's my suspicion my clue recollection , be backed up by those behind me , and indeed by the documents that a substantial attack was mounted and it was in , I have to say in full flight terms , and much hence could n't be said to be unreasonable to deem if necessarily , unusually to send counsel in front of a taxing master , well I wo n't say any more on the point , but that is my suspicion |
| 76 | Last night the teenager was said to be serious but stable after surgery at London 's King 's College Hospital . |
| 77 | The research and development costs of these drugs are said to be close to £10-£15 million . |
| 78 | A second sense in which the inner-city phonology may be said to be complex is in the incidence of lexical items that have two alternative vowel pronunciations quite distinct phonetically and phonemically from each other . |
| 79 | 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 . |
| 80 | The Bettiscombe skull , preserved in the house at that time , was said to be that of a negro slave , so devoted to John Frederick that it emitted the most ghastly screams if it were ever parted from him . |
| 81 | In fact the major pilgrimage route to Santiago is said to be that by which Priscillian 's body was brought back for burial from Trier . |
| 82 | The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics . |
| 83 | Spike , himself , is said to be all X-ed out about the memorabilia that is being sold by other people . |
| 84 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 85 | The Man with a Sheep is said to be humanitarian ; that is far from one 's experience in front of it , and the assertion is not much supported by the iconographical evidence . |
| 86 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 87 | That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering . |
| 88 | On admission , the child 's condition was said to be good , and she had fully recovered by the autumn . |
| 89 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 90 | The forgeries are said to be good quality copies . |