Example sentences of "be said [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are minor exceptions where small units , which are said to compete with the private sector produce accounts showing a true and fair view . |
| 2 | It should be noted that what we are said to share with them is their vision : there is one continuing struggle against patriarchy . |
| 3 | Both Toby and Jo had valuable experiences , although the more obvious mathematical one may be said to lie with Jo and his companion in their appreciation of the relative sizes of the blocks and their places in the storage boxes . |
| 4 | The uranium series measurements give a slightly older date of 205,000 years BP , but given that the uncertainties in each of these figures are typically 20 per cent , the two techniques can be said to agree with each other . |
| 5 | Given the freedom which the parties enjoy in a common law system in the matter of gathering evidence , their resort to foreign procedures could not be said to interfere with English procedures or the control over those procedures which the English court would exercise . |
| 6 | Indeed , there is a sense in which most of the working genes in a body can be said to cooperate with each other as a team , because over evolutionary time they ( i.e. ancestral copies of themselves ) have each been part of the environment in which natural selection has worked on the others . |
| 7 | All is not dark in these accounts , and indeed they can be said to gleam with a quality of reflected light . |
| 8 | The book was a popular success ; its sales at one time were said to compete with those of Marie Corelli [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | First , the energy budget of predators is said to decrease with increasing weight , so that lions require ten times their own weight , whereas shrews require 100 times their own weight . |
| 10 | Remember , it uses no electricity , there are no moving parts to go wrong , and each unit is said to cope with ponds of up to 15,000 gallons , assuming a through-flow rate of 3,000 gph . |
| 11 | It is said to work with the Tivoli Systems Inc management environment , HP VUE and IBM NetView . |
| 12 | He was said to mate with cows when strengthening himself for battle . |
| 13 | The porcelain produced at Chelsea was said to compare with Dresden 's fine china and there was always keen competition amongst dealers who waited at the doors to purchase pieces as soon as they emerged from the ovens . |