Example sentences of "are said [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both this novel and the one which it resumes are ‘ hung ’ books , in the sense that Parliaments are said to be hung . |
| 2 | So the two works are said to be both like one another and unlike . |
| 3 | Consequently they are said to be only suitable for the rarified world of HQ where men with no ‘ bottle ’ and the non-combatants have fled . |
| 4 | Greying a little at the temples , Leonard unconsciously confirms why he is labelled one of Canada 's sexiest men , a handsome and elegant man with dark eyes ( they are said to be green , but that never showed in the light of Montreal , nor in its wintry sunshine ) . |
| 5 | Those born on a Friday are said to be marked out for special piety , which does not mean that they will be pious necessarily ; only that their natures are imbued with that proclivity . |
| 6 | Thus some things that are said to be going to happen , do happen . |
| 7 | Frontrunners are said to be British Aerospace and Daimler Benz . |
| 8 | As in previous attacks on the protesters , the real agents provocateurs are said to be the Western media egging on the rabble . |
| 9 | Several big British companies are said to be ‘ extremely interested ’ . |
| 10 | The two witnesses are said to be a retired Swiss shopkeeper who had business dealings with Mr Ryan in the early 1970s , and a British businessman who had dealings with Mr Ryan in Libya . |
| 11 | As this book goes to press , ACAS are said to be ‘ trying again ’ . |
| 12 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 13 | Schooldays are said to be the happiest days in your life but for Asian children in Britain they are often the harshest . |
| 14 | Beef , Chicken , Vegetable and Low-Fat Granular Beef flavours are said to be high in meat , chicken or vegetable extracts . |
| 15 | Each cooking function can be used singularly or simultaneously and the controls are said to be simple to operate . |
| 16 | Sir Derek Alun-Jones , chairman of Ferranti , and some other directors of the troubled group are said to be ready to resign in February once a share issue to raise £187 million in finance for the group is agreed by shareholders .. |
| 17 | Half of all aircraft are said to be inoperable and two thirds of all vessels are in port at any given time . |
| 18 | China 's own demands are said to be precise . |
| 19 | His White House advisers are said to be worried that the Energy Department is still too keen on conservation and regulation . |
| 20 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 21 | Outputs are said to be up to 1 million litres ( 200,000gal ) /day . |
| 22 | Not surprising , then , that Soho 's fire-fighters are said to be the busiest in the world . |
| 23 | They are said to be his own work , although the truth is that he probably has the final say . |
| 24 | At Augusta , more than at almost any other golf course , disaster stalks the champions , particularly on the greens — which are said to be in fine , fiery form this year . |
| 25 | The so-called chiral drugs ( from chiros — the Greek word for hands ) made with these molecules are said to be safer and more effective . |
| 26 | Bosch , with total sales of £12 billion last year , has 40 p.c. of the German market for wall-hung boilers and its products , some of which Worcester will make in Britain , are said to be complementary . |
| 27 | They are said to be very fast over the first 40 yards , and the advice offered by the locals is that you should run on a zig-zag course if one of them takes a fancy to you . |
| 28 | If ever they lose the ability to scavenge energy , and put it to use in repairing their own fabric , then they are said to be dead ; and they begin immediately to fall apart . |
| 29 | In general , materials that are carbon-based are said to be organic . |
| 30 | Moreover these gods are said to be more part of the world 's spiritual furniture than transcendent of it — perhaps more like the saints in Catholic tradition . |