Example sentences of "this [noun sg] be said to be " in BNC.

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1 Putting and making the inverse transformation via equation ( 11.32 ) or Again there is an absence of oscillation and the circuit in this condition is said to be overdamped ( refer back to figure 4.15(b) again ) .
2 In the locker room — no ordinary changing room this , but a soft paradise of fluffy towels , hairdryers , lotions , masseurs , electronic scales , isometric drinks , cardio-vascular scans and congratulatory attendants — he told a well-known ( everyone in this club is said to be well-known ) producer that he took the first three games off me in each set .
3 Central to this approach is said to be an emphasis upon guidance from the best available scientific evidence .
4 This expansion is said to be " inflationary , " meaning that the universe at one time expanded at an increasing rate rather than the decreasing rate that it does today .
5 This tendency is said to be exacerbated by the growth of institutional holdings , the institutions themselves exhibiting a short-termist attitude , conspicuous in the fund managers engaged by them .
6 The low and high-pass , L-C , ladder filters already discussed in this section are said to be constant-k filters because the product of the series and parallel impedances is independent of frequency , which fact can be expressed in terms of a constant k as For the low and high-pass filters considered , k is just .
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