Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can societies which lack either law courts or judges be said to have a system of law ? |
| 2 | And thirdly , in order to unravel the totality of things that are and see how it is inwardly articulated and how it emanates into the diversity of the world as we experience in the ordinary way , your thought has to follow a special kind of logic , dialectical logic , which exhibits the process of thought and simultaneously the process of reality as one that proceeds by things being or things being said , and these giving rise to their opposites , to contradictions , and these contradictory moments or items being taken up in a greater , synthesizing whole . |
| 3 | Virtually every single item on the list of what ‘ we ’ as English , French , Germans or Czechs are said to have in common , can be acquired by immigrants who wish to do so , except physical appearance , where this differs very markedly from the norm of the receiving population . |
| 4 | Nine workmen were reportedly employed at the Luxeuil-les-Bains foundry and authorities are said to have been alerted by the fact that Hains got behind with his Social Security payments . |
| 5 | Under these conditions , the reactants and products are said to be in their standard states . |
| 6 | In the Soviet Union , central state control of the curriculum and syllabuses is said to be ‘ virtually total ’ . |
| 7 | Unhappily the men were sent for from their temporary quarters in the town , and goodbyes were said at the castle . |
| 8 | Leibniz 's view is that the sources of individuation lie within the entities themselves ; in other words , entities are regarded as basic , and places are said to be explicable in terms of relations between entities — " entities " meaning here " individual substances " or " monads " . |
| 9 | The examples listed earlier suggest that it covers a vast variety of relations ; for example the relation between capitalists and workers is said to be one of oppression , while that between factions of the ruling class might be competition . |
| 10 | Workers are said to be rationed in the labour market and firms are said to be rationed in the commodity market . |
| 11 | And she remembered then the old adage tossed around the dinner table by her parents ' friends , when the drink had loosened their tongues , and things were said that stuck in the mind like grit in the eye . |
| 12 | More plausibly , both males and females are said to return to the pond of their birth to breed , and it was this aspect of toad lore that Dr Chris Reading of Furzebrook Research Station of Dorset and Drs Jon Loman and Thomas Madsen of the University of Lund in Sweden set out to investigate ( Journal of Zoology , vol. 225 , pp201–11 ) . |
| 13 | Around Sheffield this was known as the " stuffing system " and prices were said to be overvalued three-fold . |
| 14 | Environmental chemicals and foods are said to be responsible for an unlimited variety of symptoms which occur in the absence of physical findings or abnormal laboratory results . |