Example sentences of "[noun pl] are say [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frontrunners are said to be British Aerospace and Daimler Benz . |
| 2 | Such waves are said to be capable of setting up oscillations which may damage a jointed structure , as the increases and decreases of pressure tend to pull jointed blocks away . |
| 3 | The spectral type is F. In general F-stars are said to be yellowish , but I have never seen any colour in Canopus , either with the naked eye or with optical aid ; to me it looks pure white . |
| 4 | The three VAX servers are said to be able to cope with 1,000 transactions an hour , though so far they have been tested to only a few percent of their capacity . |
| 5 | China 's own demands are said to be precise . |
| 6 | These shapes are said to be common to each of the three pictures . |
| 7 | HyperSparc 's integer and floating point chips are said to be complete — the instruction cache unit will be finished within a week , the company says . |
| 8 | Beef , Chicken , Vegetable and Low-Fat Granular Beef flavours are said to be high in meat , chicken or vegetable extracts . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | The President 's economists are said to be worried about the costs . |
| 11 | The Bank has quadrupled its investment in environmental projects over the past year , from US$404 million to US$1,600 million , but critics charge that the money is being used to make projects look green rather than cancelling bad projects , which Bank officials are said to be reluctant to do . |
| 12 | Banks are said to be concerned that they could be liable for pollution from land or property they take as security , and insurers say they may not be able to offer environmental cover in future , restricting coverage to sudden or accidental pollution . |
| 13 | The main reasons for these changes are said to be economic pressures , grant aid , and a gradual replacement of older , smaller , and more conservative farmers with younger , larger and more profit-orientated farmers . |
| 14 | If autonomous actions are said to be uncaused ( and hence undetermined ) they are left completely mysterious , and the prospects for individualism as a set of explanatory theories look very weak indeed . |
| 15 | The forgeries are said to be good quality copies . |
| 16 | These solids are said to be amorphous . |
| 17 | The causal items are said to be active , to be productive , to be geneses , to have potency or efficacy . |
| 18 | Such liquids are said to be immiscible . |
| 19 | His White House advisers are said to be worried that the Energy Department is still too keen on conservation and regulation . |
| 20 | When two closely related species have similar behavioural patterns or capacities , and this similarity is due to their having a common origin , then the behaviours are said to be homologous . |
| 21 | The force-carrying particles exchanged between matter particles are said to be virtual particles because , unlike " real " particles , they can not be directly detected by a particle detector . |
| 22 | The gay love scenes were sensitively filmed , although the men had to wear boxer shorts for the US version as Americans are said to be touchy about testicles . |
| 23 | Each cooking function can be used singularly or simultaneously and the controls are said to be simple to operate . |
| 24 | Some of the conventional munitions are said to be equivalent in immediate destructiveness to nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Accordingly , shorelines are said to be submergent or emergent depending upon the most strongly marked characteristics present . |
| 27 | ACE inhibitors are said to be useful in acute myocardial infarction . |
| 28 | It is interesting that women are said to be conservative only at times and in places where this trait is not valued . |
| 29 | The research and development costs of these drugs are said to be close to £10-£15 million . |
| 30 | In the Thames Region , water supplies are said to be robust . |