Example sentences of "and [noun] are said [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 In addition , social disruption and discontent are said to be fostered by temporary visitors , and ghost communities may be created out-of-season .
2 Under these conditions , the reactants and products are said to be in their standard states .
3 It is well known that responses to a stimulus presented off-centre will be faster when made by the limb on the same side of the body as the stimulus appears , that is , when stimulus and response are said to be compatible ( Fitts and Seeger , 1953 ) .
4 Taiwan and Ireland are said to be preparing to halt the use of driftnets by June 30 next year .
5 As one might expect , West Germany has inherited the ability to maintain vast dossiers on people within its borders and , bearing in mind that some 8,000 spies working for East Germany and Russia are said to be operating in West Germany , there is certainly plenty for them to do .
6 Leibniz 's view is that the sources of individuation lie within the entities themselves ; in other words , entities are regarded as basic , and places are said to be explicable in terms of relations between entities — " entities " meaning here " individual substances " or " monads " .
7 Workers are said to be rationed in the labour market and firms are said to be rationed in the commodity market .
8 NEC and Sony are said to be ready to formalise an alliance following their initial agreement in May to share application software catalogues .
9 Environmental chemicals and foods are said to be responsible for an unlimited variety of symptoms which occur in the absence of physical findings or abnormal laboratory results .
10 ( The sets X and Y are said to be incomparable if
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