Example sentences of "said [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean Alesi is said to be trying to disentangle himself from his 1993 Ferrari contract in order to make himself available to Williams . |
| 2 | Faced with the choice of reinventing itself or hanging up its boots , 88open , the supporters club for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC vendors , is said to be finalising a plan to offer its conformance testing expertise to the industry at large , via a separate organisation that will develop and implement test suites for suppliers of other RISC architectures and consortia like PowerOpen or Sparc International it sees as potential customers . |
| 3 | And a further principle was established — that of ‘ conflict of interest ’ , in which a manager who advises an artist to sign with his own recording and music publishing companies can hardly be said to be acting impartially , or necessarily in the best interests of his client . |
| 4 | Local authorities have no powers except those conferred upon them by statute , and when they take action which is not sanctioned by the law they are said to be acting ultra vires ( beyond the powers ) . |
| 5 | The refugee camp there was said to be acting as a " magnet " , encouraging more Haitians to put to sea , and it was confirmed that the camp would be phased out . |
| 6 | All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes . |
| 7 | Mr Rafsanjani was said to be supported by the so-called moderate right . |
| 8 | Mugabe 's position was said to be supported only by his wife Sally Mugabe , Foreign Minister Nathan Shamuyarira and Vice-President Simon Muzenda . |
| 9 | Traditionally , Canada was said to be bound by the Canadian Pacific 's ribbon of steel . |
| 10 | In the strictest sense then , the subject of this chapter are the six Warsaw Pact members of Eastern Europe which , along with Mongolia , could alone be said to be bound to the ‘ socialist commonwealth ’ . |
| 11 | Although some of this work may be informed by certain theoretical readings — Irigaray , Cixous , Kristeva , Judith Butler , or some of the work by Italian feminists on the mother-daughter relationship — there is a real sense in which these artists could be said to be producing theory visually . |
| 12 | this suggests a recognition that cultural production is itself a form of knowledge or , as Hilary Robinson has put it in a recent issue of WAM ( No49 ) in discussing women 's body art , that artists could be said to be producing theory visually ’ . |
| 13 | It is therefore found only in children and is said to be caused by ‘ polluted breast milk ’ . |
| 14 | NO WONDER Squidgy is said to be writing more letters these days . |
| 15 | NCR Corp 's total revenues , including sales to other AT&T units , fell 3.9% to $1,480m , but the company is said to be seeing strong orders for its products . |
| 16 | NCR Corp 's total revenues , including sales to other AT&T units , fell 3.9% to $1,480m , but the company is said to be seeing strong orders for its products . |
| 17 | If the Fourth Symphony to some extent thrives on Brüggen 's extrovert approach , the Pastoral could be said to be diminished by it . |
| 18 | The subsidence costs are incurred by British Coal and so are said to be internalized . |
| 19 | A transaction is said to be internalized when its administration involves the use of authority rather than voluntary bargaining between people in a market . |
| 20 | Forty well organised criminal groups are said to be smuggling works of art out of Russia . |
| 21 | Only if it is ‘ blown ’ , for example on a tax-cut-financed consumer boom , can the government be said to be piling up financial trouble for future governments . |
| 22 | France recognises its poor performance in population assistance and is said to be developing a new programme , which , however , is expected to focus on public education and demographic research and training rather than family planning assistance . |
| 23 | There are those today who may be said to be living as though Pentecost had never taken place . |
| 24 | ( Whether old people living in residential homes can be said to be living in the community is a separate issue , some aspects of which are considered in Chapter 7 . ) |
| 25 | There are many memories which are too painful , or too wicked , for the patient to remember without the aid of psychoanalysis , and these are said to be repressed . |
| 26 | Six UK licencees include the Prudential Building Society , the Post Office and Swiss Bank — North West Water is said to be taking a look . |
| 27 | The new French government is said to be taking a fresh look at the matter . |
| 28 | HOG members stress the group is concerned only with generic definitions , and whilst OSF is said to be taking a lead role in new work , HOG members have already agreed to endorse those previously established by the Network Management Forum . |
| 29 | At the same time the West German government stated its suspicions that the Chilean government was concealing deeds occurring in the colony and that it thus shared responsibility for " the reported tortures , maltreatment and denial of personal liberties " said to be taking place there . |
| 30 | They may be said to be exercising an administrative function . |