Example sentences of "[pers pn] is said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is said to be bricked up in her room , spinning her hand loom for all eternity . |
| 2 | It is said above that one must take one of two positions : one is that stress is not predictable by rule and must be learned word by word ( see for example Jones ( 1975 ) , sections 920–1 ) . |
| 3 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |
| 4 | It is said on the river that a Thames barge , once she has risen with the tide , never sinks completely . |
| 5 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 6 | It is said for the appellants that the decisions of Home Office ministers fixing their tariff periods were irrational , in public law terms , because they must have exceeded those recommended by the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice . |
| 7 | Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP . |
| 8 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |
| 9 | It is said to be the most photographed village in Norway . |
| 10 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 11 | It is said to be the tree on which Judas Iscariot hanged himself , after which its pink blossom turned dark red in shame . |
| 12 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 13 | It is said to be water insoluble . |
| 14 | The word ‘ aura ’ is derived from the Greek avra meaning breeze because it is said to be continually in motion . |
| 15 | It is said to be the only tide mill in western Europe that is still operating . |
| 16 | Called Tickford Bridge , it is said to be the oldest iron bridge in Britain still in constant use . |
| 17 | It is said to be the longest-lived of the British dairy and dual-purpose breeds ; it is also hardy and with a low incidence of metabolic disease . |
| 18 | It is said to be an overcoat warmer in the valley , but shelter from the north is no compensation for the deep-freeze effect as the frosts drain down to the river . |
| 19 | When a bank note can be exchanged for gold on demand at a bank it is said to be convertible or redeemable . |
| 20 | It is said to be invisible in its natural state but will form into semi-matter under certain conditions , rather like invisible moist air condensing into a filmy liquid on windows . |
| 21 | It is said to be a luminous and dynamic nature capable of independent existence apart from its physical counterpart . |
| 22 | At Burley Camp in Devon a crock of gold is said to be buried , but anyone who tries to dig for it is said to be scared away by thunder and lightning . |
| 23 | Built as a hunting lodge for the Deer Park it is said to be haunted by a huntsman in green ! |
| 24 | It is said to be present , although usually without symptoms , in one in ten people over the age of forty , and in one in three over the age of sixty . |
| 25 | It is said to be a nervous fish and it will probably benefit from the presence of other fish — acting as dither fish — to give it confidence . |
| 26 | If the cell loses its charge , it is said to be depolarized , and a cycle of depolarization and repolarization accompanies many cellular functions . |
| 27 | If a book or manuscript has headings or the first capitals of paragraphs painted or printed in red , the rest of the text being black , it is said to be ‘ rubricated ’ . |
| 28 | It is said to ‘ cheer people up ’ . |
| 29 | It is said to be selling well . |
| 30 | If you have a tank that always seems to be disease prone , or the fish die , often for no apparent reason , I would suggest that any decoration that is in or going in your tank be checked and double checked no matter how long it takes and how safe it is said to be . |