Example sentences of "is said [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The country 's largest energy prospect is the A$11 billion North West Shelf gas venture off the coast of Western Australia and potential is said to exist for further large gas and liquid discoveries in the Cooper Basin which involves the development of 14 new gas fields and 6 new oil fields . |
| 2 | A record is said to exist of a whipping which took place in 1624 , when a man was whipped to death . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In his memoirs he answers the charge : ‘ Some Tories , like me , are criticised for this supposed failing ( of being patrician ) which is said to lead to moral softness , in contrast with the toughness of those who have had to fight their way in life . |
| 5 | The rise of the corporate economy is said to lead to a ‘ gradual approximation of the state and society , of the public and private sphere ’ . |
| 6 | Nowadays , most political scientists no longer praise the responsibility of our party system but instead talk of , and condemn , our system of " adversary politics " , where an " electoral auction " is said to lead to an irresponsible " elective dictatorship " , which then manages the economy in such a way as to create an injurious " political-business cycle " that hinders our long-term economic growth . |
| 7 | Within the Commons it is said to lead to constant petty squabbles ; the mindless negation of government through excessive ( and purely partisan and irresponsible ) opposition ; the oversimplification of complex issues into two ( and only two ) contrasting alternatives ; and the grand clash and confrontation of the cult of debate . |
| 8 | Some birds are sinister : the Carnero , a mean-spirited grey monster , is said to delight in picking out the eyeballs of shipwrecked sailors . |
| 9 | The nursery rhyme then , comes from Tommy Thumb 's Pretty Song Book from around seventeen forty-four , and the division of bags , one for the master , one for the dame , one for the little boy who where wherever he is , lives down the lane , is said to refer to the export tax on wool , which was imposed as far back as twelve seventy-five , making even the outsider sheep of value . |
| 10 | When a minor term of the contract , called a warranty , is breached , the plaintiff may not repudiate the contract but only sue for damages ; breach of a warranty is said to sound in damages only . |
| 11 | Its distinctive call is said to sound like an unhappy goat . |
| 12 | Here , the explanatory power of the assertion is reduced by the fact that a relation is said to hold between two very general terms — the peasantry and the state . |
| 13 | This , and the growing trend in American society to express displeasure more vociferously and outspokenly than in the past , is said to lie at the root of recent player-directed violence ( ibid.:204–5 ) . |
| 14 | Inasmuch as the media does reproduce such accounts it sustains the status quo , since ‘ the problem ’ is said to lie within the individual and not wider social processes , implying that a solution comes through changes in the individual rather than in society . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | While the Introduction has little to say on language specifically , what is said conforms to this broad sense of English . |
| 18 | The ceremony is said to derive from the day in the year 52 when San Barnaba did the same thing outside the walls of Milan to symbolize the city 's conversion to Christianity . |
| 19 | The would-be acquirer is said to live within the city limits of Santa Clara , California . |
| 20 | " The Traveller 's Guide to Scotland and its Islands " no author given — in the fifth edition published in 1811 , has a brief entry about Ila which is said to labour under the " disadvantage of a great scarcity of wood " and " a considerable quantity of flax is raised here , which is spun by the women ; . |
| 21 | " The Traveller 's Guide to Scotland and its Islands " no author given — in the fifth edition published in 1811 , has a brief entry about Ila which is said to labour under the " disadvantage of a great scarcity of wood " and " a considerable quantity of flax is raised here , which is spun by the women ; . |
| 22 | He is said to die in India , pierced with lances , and the tomb in which he is buried is later found empty . |
| 23 | He is said to sink onto his knee on the track and wait for the train to end his life ; the train crews used to look out for the shadowy figure and shudder . |
| 24 | But suppose we think that everything that is said purports to be a statement of fact , and suppose we think that for someone to be justified in saying what he says he must say it on the basis of something he has observed . |
| 25 | The soul is said to reside in the upper torso , and is the seat of the emotions . |
| 26 | But the scope for resistance is limited and the all pervasive security network is said to extend to Sunday services where sermons are monitored for hints of dissent . |
| 27 | It is said to work with the Tivoli Systems Inc management environment , HP VUE and IBM NetView . |
| 28 | The human mind — which , from this viewpoint , is the brain — is said to work on the same plan as a computer , with operations being carried out on physical symbols . |
| 29 | The encryption algorithm , nicknamed Skipjack , is intended to remain confidential , but is said to work on 64-bit blocks , like the DES algorithm , but with 32 rounds of scrambling as compared to DES 's 16 . |
| 30 | Certainly at least one alleged aphrodisiac , Spanish Fly , is said to work by inducing an itch … and making people itch is just the kind of thing viruses are good at . |