Example sentences of "say [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead it turns out to be very much concerned with rhetoric , which can hardly be said to be new for this age or even essentially syntactic . |
| 2 | They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes . |
| 3 | Some stolen cattle were transported from the Northern Band to supply the beef market at Kandy ; the Moors of Akurana , a few kilometres north of Kandy , were said to be involved in this trade . |
| 4 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 5 | For it is being questioned whether a symbol which would appear to be necessarily male can be said to be inclusive of all humanity . |
| 6 | The 50MHz version is said to be capable of 100 MIPS . |
| 7 | A new form of layout can not , without more , be said to be capable of industrial application . |
| 8 | The differences in organisation are said to be due to innate ability , and the kind of experience received . |
| 9 | If we take the two words ‘ my turn ’ , the relationship between and , between and and between and is said to be one of close juncture . |
| 10 | The ‘ easy money ’ said to be available to young people under conditions of full employment was the object of widespread condemnation . |
| 11 | It is also said to be fleur-de-lis of French heraldry . |
| 12 | Surprisingly she discovered that funding for both film-makers and festival organisers is proving as elusive in the larger metropolitan centres as it is here where the state of gay and lesbian film culture can safely be said to be embryonic at best . |
| 13 | ACE inhibitors are said to be useful in acute myocardial infarction . |
| 14 | Some of the conventional munitions are said to be equivalent in immediate destructiveness to nuclear weapons . |
| 15 | He was also said to be unpopular with some members of the profession , although he was elected president of the London Veterinary Medical Society . |
| 16 | Although Kuwait , without oil revenues and faced with a tremendous rebuilding task , is said to be short of ready cash , the ambassador made it clear that his country is keen on buying the RTC 's interest in both the Phoenician and Crescent hotels ( another Keating project ) . |
| 17 | Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire . |
| 18 | The following are some of the features that have been said to be characteristic of primitive societies . |
| 19 | Freud 's work has been said to be unusable for this reason — that is , that it , too , was based on a biased sample . |
| 20 | The marriage of a person who has been judicially declared insane is totally void , and the same is said to be true of any disposition of property made by such a person . |
| 21 | At the time of writing ( Oct 77 ) the Japanese MSDF are said to be interested in fifteen aircraft to replace its mixed fleet of thirty-four prop driven aircraft . |
| 22 | He had first mentioned the concept of ego ideal in his paper ‘ On Narcissism ’ ( 1914 ) , and the notion of ego ideal is later said to be identical with that of super-ego in The Ego and the Id ( 1923 ) . |
| 23 | The second section looks at the various legal provisions which can be said to be concerned with certain specific social and moral educational objectives : the law on sex and race discrimination , religious education and collective worship , sex education and the coverage of political issues in the classroom . |
| 24 | Why , even the Chancellor of the Exchequer is said to be worried at that . |
| 25 | VITALITE Light is a sunflower oil spread which is said to be high in polyunsaturated fat , and low in saturated fat and cholesterol . |
| 26 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 27 | A uni-processor design , with a peak of 150 MIPS is said to be scalable to 300 MIPS ‘ over time . ’ |
| 28 | These shapes are said to be common to each of the three pictures . |
| 29 | Post-natal depression is said to be common among immigrant women generally . |
| 30 | The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders . |