Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] said [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A space-time in which events have imaginary values of the time coordinate is said to be Euclidean , after the ancient Greek Euclid , who founded the study of geometry of two-dimensional surfaces . |
| 32 | In some cases registration was said to be complete when no one had been entered on lists at all . |
| 33 | Knox modestly demurred , but the meeting was said to be happy and humorous . |
| 34 | Investigations — fundoscopy , serum potassium , and chest radiography — varied substantially , up to one quarter of physicians rounded the blood pressure reading up to 10 mm Hg , and although risk factor intervention was said to be important , cholesterol measurement was done by as few as 27% of clinicians . |
| 35 | The differences in organisation are said to be due to innate ability , and the kind of experience received . |
| 36 | The formula on offer by the company last night is said to be similar to the rejected package but with slightly better redundancy terms . |
| 37 | Why , even the Chancellor of the Exchequer is said to be worried at that . |
| 38 | The sixty seven year old chairman of Thames water is said to be depressed after he was diagnosed as having Parkinsons disease . |
| 39 | It is a good Christian well now , and the water is said to be curative . |
| 40 | When expectations are revised in accordance with the specific hypothesis , behaviour is said to be adaptive . |
| 41 | A level gutter with a central outlet is said to be capable of draining 210 sq . |
| 42 | The true Aquarian is said to be friendly , progressive , creative , inventive , independent , original , tolerant , refined , artistic , discreet , optimistic and fond of science and literature . |
| 43 | Our evidence was said to be flawed because : WE could be accused of setting up Marshall for an offence she would not have otherwise committed . |
| 44 | His condition last night was said to be poorly . |
| 45 | Not until it does begin to react to such objects in recognisable and predictably different ways can the baby be said to be capable of noticing the objects in question . |
| 46 | Loosely , a policy is said to be time-inconsistent if , once it has been adopted , there is an incentive at some later date to renege or cheat on it . |
| 47 | For example , the matrix unc is persymmetric. ( 10 ) Centrosymmetric and centroskew matrices — a matrix which is symmetric about the centre point of its array is said to be centrosymmetric ; thus , if A is centrosymmetric , of order n , it is characterised by unc More simply , if J is the reversing matrix , a centrosymmetric matrix has the property A = JAJ A centroskew matrix is characterised by the equation A = JAJ . |
| 48 | However , whether the appointment was said to be express or by necessarily holding the debtor out with ostensible authority such an appointment must in practice be a very rare event . |
| 49 | Last night the teenager was said to be serious but stable after surgery at London 's King 's College Hospital . |
| 50 | But surely there are no acts of introspection " that could in any intelligible sense be said to be identifiable independently of their objects , analogous to " acts of extrospection " . |
| 51 | PC performance is said to be unaffected by the card . |
| 52 | Host performance is said to be unaffected by the board . |
| 53 | When the actual yield equals the theoretical yield , the yield is said to be quantitative . |
| 54 | The flames were put out in good time and the donkey was said to be fit for the final , against Preston North End . |
| 55 | The government was said to be anxious that the Iraqi-Kurdish refugee crisis should not provide an opportunity for either Syria or Iran to extend its influence in the region . |
| 56 | In the aftermath of the war the government was said to be concerned over Turkey 's increasingly prominent international role . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | I could n't say it 's new , but then could blue be said to be royal ? |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | The unit matrix I is a diagonal matrix of unit elements ; a matrix having all its elements zero is said to be null and is written 0 . |