Example sentences of "be [adv] said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rough Trade , for instance , had to dip into the piggy bank to move into the American market , where they 're now said to be pulling out . |
| 2 | Many fund managers are still said to be considering their next move . |
| 3 | Notches on tallies were an early way of scoring in cricket matches , and people are still said to ‘ notch up ’ a good score , just as one can still hear a commentator say that a free-scoring batsman is ‘ in good nick ’ . |
| 4 | ( Chinese and Japanese mustards are also said to be strong , but I have not tried them . ) |
| 5 | Potential competitors such as the hot-shot Mac-to-Unix people at Quorum Software , who might eventually find their market niche too narrow , are also said to be watching . |
| 6 | deodorant , use fresh leaves in the bath water , or a decoction of the roots , which are also said to be effective in removing freckles |
| 7 | Ammonium fumes from the farms are also said to be damaging trees . |
| 8 | Early registration figures are also said to be disappointing for the banks and building societies which have set up share shops . |
| 9 | Such networks are also said to be active in the spirit of the application of the term active at the end of chapter 2 . |
| 10 | I know that such experiences are often said to be the result of the individuals concerned having read a book or article or seen a film or television programme about the particular place and then having forgotten that they have done so . |
| 11 | Er and similarly the syntax of languages are often said to be oppressive of women , a lot of the way that language is structured and a lot of the words that you get in a language , that 's another thing that 's said . |
| 12 | Football fans in this region are often said to the most fanatical in the country and so deserve teams among the elite . |
| 13 | Clark ( 1990 ) has recently referred to the ‘ myth ’ of the Anglo-Norman scribe and has collected a large number of comments from early in the century up until very recently from the work of distinguished scholars , in which attested forms are typically said to be ‘ Anglo-Norman ’ and therefore rejected . |
| 14 | Let us hope that the Danes will vote ‘ No ’ in their referendum on June 2 , thus forcing all members to renegotiate the treaty , as many of them are now said to be having second thoughts of their own . |
| 15 | However , its founders , Larry and Doug Michels , are now said to be reluctant because the future is uncertain — it 's a heck of a time to have to start posting quarterly reports . |
| 16 | Other US nuclear plants are now said to be studying their fuel pool cooling . |
| 17 | Galadriel 's warning about the events in her mirror , ‘ Some never come to be , unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them ’ , would have been well said to him . |
| 18 | Any shares which the bidder 's shareholders agree to purchase are then said to be " clawed back " from underwriters . |
| 19 | What was even worse , the women were unofficially said to be better at it . |
| 20 | While the agreement of Aug. 27 deferred formal dissolution until the New Year , both leaders were still said to be optimistic on the Sept. 30 deadline for passage of federal laws to dissolve the federation and divide its powers and property . |
| 21 | The plummy Home Counties accents were also said to be difficult for Americans to understand ( though this problem never seemed to arise when the same actors — James Mason , Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons — became Hollywood stars ) . |
| 22 | Er women were also said to be polite , diffident , verbose and deferential , which |
| 23 | Nearly 3,000 pieces of real estate were also said to be affected , most belonging to the FLN but some belonging to the now dissolved Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
| 24 | Voters were now said to be more worried about ‘ poor public services ’ than they were about high taxes . |
| 25 | They were ‘ dwarfs ’ at 5′ 8″ and were disparagingly said to ‘ need a helmet to help them appear big enough ’ . |
| 26 | She 's tonight said to be critical but stable . |
| 27 | Erm , now we , we can explain to you in more detail , but the finan I think Mr 's already said to you that the financial savings er , from such moves are not as productive as they were , so in sense we 're driven by strategy here , we 're driven by the fact that there is a private and there is an independent sector that is there , there is alternative methods of supply . |
| 28 | What is thus left unstated forms the normal background or context of statements of legal validity and is thus said to be ‘ presupposed ’ by them . |
| 29 | The first constituent of the so-called ‘ toxic mix ’ is usually said to be lifers — prisoners serving sentences of life imprisonment . |
| 30 | It it 's more than that it 's it 's making lads and lasses aware of what the schemes are , I mean nobody 's ever said to them reaction to some of these schemes |