Example sentences of "[is] say [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 It is said to be invisible in its natural state but will form into semi-matter under certain conditions , rather like invisible moist air condensing into a filmy liquid on windows .
32 The true Aquarian is said to be friendly , progressive , creative , inventive , independent , original , tolerant , refined , artistic , discreet , optimistic and fond of science and literature .
33 If the enthalpy of the products is higher than the enthalpy of the reactants , the reaction is said to be endothermic .
34 Oscillation is clearly just prevented and there is said to be critical damping ( refer back to figure 4.15(b) )
35 Laura Bundy , 11 , is said to be heartbroken .
36 In addition to his political and military achievements , Barbarossa acquired a legendary fame ; like the British King Arthur , he is said to be sleeping , awaiting the time of greatest need for his return as a national saviour .
37 A certain number of members must be present before a meeting is said to be quorate and can proceed .
38 When the actual yield equals the theoretical yield , the yield is said to be quantitative .
39 The referential rigidity is said to be subject to a simple intuitive test .
40 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 .
41 Spike , himself , is said to be all X-ed out about the memorabilia that is being sold by other people .
42 This is an easy way of getting light into a garage , and the glazing material used by Cardale is said to be 100 times stronger than glass .
43 If the fedback signal opposes the input signal then the feedback is said to be negative .
44 When expectations are revised in accordance with the specific hypothesis , behaviour is said to be adaptive .
45 The ability to do some ‘ magic bunnyhops ’ is said to be useful .
46 Any node with children is said to be internal .
47 Naltrexone is an anti-euphoriant which masks any pleasure from subsequent use of opiate drugs and it is said to be non-addictive .
48 One globular cluster , NGC 5466 , is said to be visible , but I have never been able to see it without a telescope .
49 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 .
50 It is said to be visible with binoculars , but I have never been able to see it without a telescope .
51 The formula on offer by the company last night is said to be similar to the rejected package but with slightly better redundancy terms .
52 He is said to be hyperactive by the nursery staff and seems to show some bizarre behaviour .
53 Subjective comments about John : ‘ He is said to be hyperactive and seems to show bizarre behaviour ’ ( lines 8 and 9 ) .
54 Badgers are quite rare in the Doncaster area , where digging and baiting is said to be rife .
55 There is said to be many decorated examples using dot and line relief , but I have found only two such decorated ones during my twenty years of detecting .
56 In the key marginal seat of Stretchford North , for instance , where John Grudge , nephew of the veteran retiring member Arthur Grudge , is standing for Labour against the Conservative Mike Jelkes ( formerly known as the Hon M. S. B. St J. St X. Haggard-Jelkes ) and the Liberal Democrat Frank Pale-Jones , a former official of the British Boring Board of Control , there is said to be such a degree of apathy that any one of the 26 ‘ fringe ’ candidates may easily win .
57 If a relationship is linked to three entities , as in figure 3.8 , it is said to be ternary .
58 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 .
59 For example , the matrix unc is orthogonal , since unc It should be noted that the determinant of the above orthogonal matrix is unity : in general an orthogonal matrix will have unc as its determinant since unc ( 12 ) Hermitian and skew-Hermitian matrices — if a matrix , A , has complex elements , it can clearly be written in the form unc where B and C are real matrices and unc is the conjugate of A. If B is symmetric and C is skew-symmetric , A is said to be Hermitian .
60 It is said to be easy to upgrade and service because it 's based on standard uniprocessor 50MHz 80486 EISA bus hardware .
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