Example sentences of "is said to [be] " in BNC.

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1 The Man with a Sheep is said to be humanitarian ; that is far from one 's experience in front of it , and the assertion is not much supported by the iconographical evidence .
2 Suppose a scene is said to be in correct perspective ?
3 The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you .
4 Between men and women , too , there is said to be a barrier .
5 VITALITE Light is a sunflower oil spread which is said to be high in polyunsaturated fat , and low in saturated fat and cholesterol .
6 He suffers still , even if the widow 's life is said to be ‘ waning ’ , her eyes ‘ tear-reddened ’ , her freedom blighted — along with her happiness .
7 This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things .
8 A pronunciation of a word is said to be assembled when it is built up piecemeal from its component letters .
9 This , in fact insuperable , difficulty is said to be overcome by proposing that mental phenomena and brain processes are the same stuff viewed within different theoretical frameworks .
10 This is an easy way of getting light into a garage , and the glazing material used by Cardale is said to be 100 times stronger than glass .
11 The plant is said to be a state-of-the-art facility that forms transistors onto large glass substrates , in a class-100 clean room that has the similar level of air cleanliness to those used in the manufacture of LSI chips .
12 The embassy gardener is said to be planning ‘ to start again' .
13 More disturbing still for Hong Kong businessmen , the governor of Guangdong , Ye Xuanping , is said to be under pressure to leave the province to take a new job as vice-premier in Peking .
14 British Aerospace is said to be one of the key contenders to mount a rescue bid for Ferranti , a vital subcontractor providing navigational and radar equipment for BAe 's military aircraft .
15 The informal ceiling placed on share option deals by institutional investors is said to be one reason .
16 Other classy convertibles come from Mercedes-Benz , Porsche and Aston Martin , whose Volante , listed at £120,000 , is said to be changing hands at over £200,000 .
17 The King is said to be a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu .
18 Adia , the Swiss group , is said to be keen to buy chunks of Saatchi .
19 Union Assurance de Paris , which has 19.2 per cent , is said to be talking to Sun 's other big shareholder , the South African controlled Trans-Atlantic Holdings .
20 The big question now is how soon the blond from Henley will eclipse the blonde from Finchley , who is said to be planning a speech which would make Joan of Arc sound hesitant .
21 Although prices have not been announced , Land-Rover is said to be keen that the turbodiesel Discovery should undercut the £17,859 Mitsubishi Shogun five-door turbodiesel .
22 Commenting on his purchase , McCartney is said to be delighted that the land is now ‘ free from the huntsmen . ’
23 ‘ A most curious-looking young man with a mobile white face and small red-rimmed eyes ; he is said to be very clever as well as deeply religious .
24 Sex on Sweeney 's cannibal isle is said to be a business of being ‘ bored ’ , but the horror of the perception takes it out of mere ‘ boredom ’ , which was killing the Melanesians and , Eliot thought , the modern world .
25 It is said to be the most photographed village in Norway .
26 Post-natal depression is said to be common among immigrant women generally .
27 This is said to be ‘ getting real ’ , being ‘ very Nineties ’ .
28 Cointreu is said to be the seventh most popular liqueur in the world .
29 The Al Zulfiqar group is believed to be based in Damascus and is said to be headed by Mr Murtaza Bhutto , the Prime Minister 's brother .
30 Her chess , too , is said to be more positional .
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