Example sentences of "said [prep] be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the recession was said to be the major cause , blame was also aimed at tycoon Gerald Ratner , whose father founded the firm and built it up to become Britain 's biggest jewellery chain . |
| 2 | The quality of ‘ capture ’ which is often said to be the major aim of the department becomes another ‘ lip service ’ to the outside world , although once again the symbolic content of this truth is multi-vocal . |
| 3 | This hard , fast and unmelodic ‘ punk ’ music was said to be the new music of the skinheads . |
| 4 | It is said to be the only tide mill in western Europe that is still operating . |
| 5 | As in previous attacks on the protesters , the real agents provocateurs are said to be the Western media egging on the rabble . |
| 6 | A budget maximizing strategy is inconsistent with the aim of survival which is said to be the rational foundation for such a strategy ( Breton and Wintrobe 1979 ) . |
| 7 | Mr no doubt of what is said to be the divine preference for called three . |
| 8 | Where once lifetime employment was said to be the key factor behind high productivity levels , the need to reduce labour costs now means that ‘ Lifetime employment is becoming something of a curse to Japanese industries ’ ( FTW 12/3/83 ) . |
| 9 | Floating is said to be the perfect way of easing tensions and calming the mind . |
| 10 | Quicklime slaked in urine and laid on the wood while hot , will also stain it a red colour ; and this is said to be the general practice with Windsor chair manufacturers in the neighbourhood of London ’ . |
| 11 | The source of these collections was said to be the papal registers . |
| 12 | Not that Denholm would have claimed to be anything of what he would have said to be the ridiculous kind . |
| 13 | This is despite a major reduction in the proportion of calls performed by deputising services , the use of which had been said to be the main factor increasing the numbers of night visits . |
| 14 | The Mosher case is said to be the main reason . |
| 15 | For any symmetric section , one possibility being a section of the form of figure 9.14(a) with , the two iterative impedances are equal and the common impedance is said to be the characteristic impedance as stated earlier . |
| 16 | The introduction of an obligatory consignment of 25 per cent of farm produce from individual farms to the state was said to be the potential means of bankrupting private farmers , as it would be administered by the nomenklatura ( the local authorities ) . |
| 17 | I could understand the term ‘ genetic engineering ’ — well , as long as nobody asked me to speak for a minute without hesitation or deviation — and I recognized ‘ DNA ’ , which was said to be the basic stuff of life . |
| 18 | After all as one employer opined , " twelve years is said to be the maximum working life of a woman compositor " . |