Example sentences of "said [prep] [be] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important part of the discussion deals with the difficulty of deciding whether variation can be said to be between semantically equivalent forms which carry social meaning , or to encode an aspectual distinction ; this latter issue is treated in the context of a ( non-quantitative ) analysis of the semantic distinctions underlying tense and aspect marking ( see further 7.6 and 7.7 ) . |
| 2 | There can be said to be at least three groups of predator assemblage distinguishable by this form of analysis . |
| 3 | There can be said to be at least three main schools of management theory addressing the people problem : the classical school embodying the work of F. W. Taylor and Henri Fayol , the behaviourist school founded by Elton Mayo and the quantitative school which appears to have had its origins in the operations research techniques developed during World War Il . |
| 4 | For instance , the following two occurrences of man can be said to be in syntactically different environments : |
| 5 | Undoubtedly the most important group of works by the artist to appear at auction for many years , the canvases are said to be in extremely good condition . |
| 6 | The prime minister , by contrast , is said to be against more spending cuts . |