Example sentences of "[verb] be said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 2 | There is also the problem , common to courses with high-recurrent frequency , that the guide does not remember exactly what has been said to each particular group . |
| 3 | It is perfectly in order to pause before answering a question so that you can be totally sure you have understood what has been said to you and to give some thought to your answer . |
| 4 | Make sure you have fully understood what has been said to you . |
| 5 | Freud 's work has been said to be unusable for this reason — that is , that it , too , was based on a biased sample . |
| 6 | The social cost of these processes , added to by government policies , has been said to be the end of ‘ consensus politics ’ and a turning away from the notion that the social hierarchy can be perceived to be legitimate . |
| 7 | Those who act at the place of business must be doing so on the business of the company and not their own account ; the crucial question has been said to be , ‘ Does the agent in carrying out the foreign corporation 's business make a contract for the corporation , or does the agent in carrying out his own business , sell a contract for the foreign corporation ? ’ . |
| 8 | More generally , however , this tort has been said to be the genus of which the other unlawful means torts ( intimidation and interference with contract and conspiracy where unlawful means are involved ) are species . |
| 9 | A trade union or union official calling its members out on strike is therefore protected but it has been said to be arguable that an individual striker has no protection against a claim that he uses unlawful means when he withdraws his labour because this situation does not appear to fall within section 13(1) . |
| 10 | The canvassing by a member of other members of the court , for or against a forthcoming application , has been said to be improper : Macdougall v. Miller ( 1900 ) 8 S.L.T. 284 ; and has led to proceedings being quashed : R. v. Ferguson ( 1890 ) 54 J.P . |
| 11 | It has been said to be a fundamental contradiction in the Weberian model of bureaucracy . |
| 12 | Much more could be and has been written about this ‘ difference principle ’ ( 2a ) and its strengths and weaknesses , but enough has been said to , at least , give the flavour of the notion . |
| 13 | It is strong where personal liberty or property rights are affected , but has been said to be weaker in the case of modern statutes , particularly those establishing a sophisticated regulatory regime , such as the FSA . |
| 14 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
| 15 | In no sense can this market be said to be mature . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home . |
| 17 | Two groups implicated were said to be the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA — an alliance formed in 1989 which grouped the opposition parties , including the Umma party , with the SPLA ) and a hitherto unknown group , Ana al-Sudan ( " I am Sudan " ) . |
| 18 | The total damage done is said to be millions and millions . |
| 19 | An algorithm which performs this trick before it starts searching is said to be goal directed , or a backwards searcher . |
| 20 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 21 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 22 | Those purged were said to be in the pay of the CIA , and described as ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ . |
| 23 | Badgers are quite rare in the Doncaster area , where digging and baiting is said to be rife . |
| 24 | The change in the attitude to the appointment of barrister-politicians as judges is said to date from Lord Haldane 's Chancellorship ( 1912–15 ) when legal and professional qualifications became the criteria , though at first the change was not extended to the most senior appointments . |
| 25 | Floating is said to be the perfect way of easing tensions and calming the mind . |
| 26 | Erika felt goose-pimples on her arms and the thought crossed her mind that , despite all that had been said to her about courage , perhaps she was n't really cut out for stardom , after all . |
| 27 | Benny and Eve watched fascinated , as he shook his head sorrowfully and seemed to agree with something that had been said to him . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had all their attention now , every eye was wide and bright upon him , Herluin and Robert irresistibly moved to hoping against hope , but very wary of disappointment , Nicol interested but bewildered , for nothing had been said to him of the loss of Saint Winifred 's reliquary , or the possibility that he might have had it aboard his wagon , and had been robbed of it with all the rest . |
| 30 | Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night . |