Example sentences of "say [prep] [be] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subject in the USA is , therefore , still implicitly dominated by one major theoretical perspective , and given the dominance of US scholars in the literature at large , Realism can be said to be the major current approach . |
| 2 | Lifetime employment and seniority wages which are said to be the two defining features of the Japanese labour market , are closely related . |
| 3 | Main topics of the latest talks were said to be the new pluralist political system , a draft electoral law , and a timetable and monitoring arrangements for multiparty elections due to be held in 1992 . |
| 4 | Beta has a B8-type spectrum , and is about 100 times as luminous as the Sun ; it is often said to be the only naked-eye star which is greenish in colour , though I have never noted this either with or without optical aid , and to me Beta always looks white . |
| 5 | Alexander was said to be the only mortal Bucephalus would ever respect and the only one who was successful in saddling and mounting him ; with all other men , Bucephalus had sensed their greed and weakness and had spurned them . |
| 6 | If a fine is not enough , custody is said to be the only adequate penalty . |
| 7 | The enclosure movement gave us much of what is said to be the traditional English landscape . |
| 8 | In Florida , Miami 's POSLogic Corp is soon to announce its first product , the POSLogic 5000 Point of Sale System , which is said to be the first Unix-based system to incorporate both hardware and software as a fully integrated product , although NCR Corp , which has been slipping Unix processors in under its point-of-sale systems for several years , while making Unix invisible to the retailer , might demur . |
| 9 | Dating from the seventeenth century , it is said to be the largest antique one-handed clock in existence . |
| 10 | It is said to be the smallest complete X Terminal design available , covering just under 50 square inches of broad space . |
| 11 | If confirmed by official figures , this will be an 80 per cent reduction on 1987 's figure , when carbon emissions from burning rain forest were said to be the third largest contributor to the greenhouse effect . |
| 12 | Plenty of people skirted the area : in 1730 Whitehaven was said to be the third busiest port in England , after London and Bristol . |
| 13 | Evidence of the Host 's appearance is said to be the red crotal ( lichen ) stain found on rocks the morning after a heavy frost , which is blood they have spilled during their aerial spats . |
| 14 | New towns continued to be founded right through the medieval period though after the early thirteenth century the changing economic conditions were no longer ideal for their development and the process tailed oft Queenborough , Kent ( 1368 ) is said to be the latest medieval planned town , though Bewdley , Worcestershire ( soon after 1477 ) , is probably the last one . |
| 15 | Two groups implicated were said to be the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA — an alliance formed in 1989 which grouped the opposition parties , including the Umma party , with the SPLA ) and a hitherto unknown group , Ana al-Sudan ( " I am Sudan " ) . |
| 16 | These ‘ Masters ’ were said to be the hidden wise men who were spread around the world with the aim of bringing in a New World Order . |
| 17 | Richard Feynman , said to be the greatest theoretical physicist of modern times , stated that no-one understands quantum mechanics . |