Example sentences of "said [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A most curious-looking young man with a mobile white face and small red-rimmed eyes ; he is said to be very clever as well as deeply religious . |
| 2 | A religious war is often said to be very bitter because the two sides are fighting for something that they both feel is very important . |
| 3 | A language is said to be recursively enumerable if a program could be written that would print out each sentence of the language . |
| 4 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 5 | J is also said to be more powerful because it can list arrays . |
| 6 | Secular university choirs are said to be much better than church groups . |
| 7 | A man can not be said to be truly willing unless he is in a position to choose freely , and freedom of choice predicates , not only full knowledge of the circumstances on which the exercise of choice is conditioned , so that he may be able to choose wisely , but the absence from his mind of any feeling of constraint so that nothing shall interfere with the freedom of his will ( Scott LJ in Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation [ 1944 ] KB 476 ) . |
| 8 | It lives in large family groups and is said to be as shy as it is fearsome-looking . |
| 9 | It 's said to be as effective as the pill and experts say it 'll widen the choice for women . |
| 10 | The pun on Spinoza was too good for Coleridge to resist , and the remarkable nose he attributed to Walsh may well have been borrowed from his memories of the innkeeper at the Castle of Comfort , on the road from Stowey to Holford : his nose , which was locally famous , was said to be as big as a fist and ‘ well warted ’ . |