Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year the minister of agriculture was said to have ruined the tomato crop by importing sterile seeds from Israel — because ( rumour had it ) his grandfather was Jewish . |
| 2 | These qualities were reserved for a small minority of disinterested intellectuals whose insights into the great tradition of literature were said to develop in them a maturity of vision . |
| 3 | It has of course been said that it is possible to practice veterinary medicine and that many doctors do not communicate in any language but it has to be said that there is room for improvement . |
| 4 | As Lévi-Strauss himself acknowledges , all social phenomena can of course be said to possess or exhibit ‘ structure ’ ( i.e. some degree of orderliness and patterning ) , just as , with almost equal plausibility , they can be claimed to have some functional significance . |
| 5 | The same can of course be said of a great novel , for if houses are like stories , stories are also like houses . |
| 6 | Nerves that communicate with the use of acetylcholine are said to be cholinergic and are found in the peripheral and central nervous systems . |
| 7 | A regular intake of garlic is said to cut the development of plaque-forming bacteria on the teeth , too . |
| 8 | The effect of jurisdictional error of law is said to be to render the affected decision void or a nullity in the sense that the decision is treated as never having had any legal effect . |
| 9 | Around 500,000 hectares of forest are said to have been destroyed , and fires have also been reported in western Java and south Sulawesi . |
| 10 | In the gut , the main symptom of candidiasis is said to be bloating and wind , because as the yeast ferments its food it produces prodigious quantities of carbon dioxide gas . |
| 11 | The question of prohibited degrees , within which marriage could not take place , also appears in the late seventh century , when bishop Leodegar of Autun is said to have attacked the marriage of Childeric II to his cousin Bilichild . |
| 12 | The shift to a broader notion of fairness is said to alter fundamentally the basis of procedural intervention : it can no longer be restricted to adjudicative settings , and there can no longer be fixed standards for determining whether there has been a breach of procedural fairness . |
| 13 | The generic and common names of mint are said to be taken from the Greek myth of the nymph Minthe , who was being pursued by Hades , the god of the Underworld . |
| 14 | But it also has important consequences for the epistemological status of the resulting social theory , and much of the novelty of Marxism is said to arise from its break with traditional conceptions of knowledge . |
| 15 | The protection of wildlife was said to be germane to both China 's economic and ethical development . |
| 16 | The banality of this latter type of entertainment is said to have once provoked Napoleon III to remark : ‘ Great God ; they talk about the debauchery of the Court ; they should be sentenced to an evening like this . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In addition , 30 per cent of the projects in their fourth or fifth year of implementation were said already to have serious problems . |
| 19 | A glass of wine/whisky/champagne is said to cure all sorts of ills such as the common cold . |
| 20 | Not much of interest was said , and certainly not by shadowy me , though that is as I would have it . |
| 21 | Control of the means of production is said to have replaced ownership as the economic foundation for the self-perpetuating power of the bureaucracy . |
| 22 | This form of collaboration is said to have several advantages in that it offers greater control over research and development linkage by better managing the interface between public sector research and industry . |