Example sentences of "is said " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that the prison director steals the fuel to warm his own house in Meknes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 4 | Suppose a scene is said to be in correct perspective ? |
| 5 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 6 | Klima 's first loves have a way of not working out ; and what may have been his longest affair is the one about which least is said . |
| 7 | The duel in which Lermontov was soon to die is said to have been patterned , so far as its arrangements went , on the one in the novel : the outcome , however , was perceptibly different . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Between men and women , too , there is said to be a barrier . |
| 10 | I realise that what I am describing , people divided in themselves , is said to characterise mental illness , and is the absolute opposite of our idea of emotional integration . |
| 11 | STUDYING the West Coast of Scotland from the yacht Britannia , the Queen is said to have remarked , not long ago , that the people there did n't seem to have much of a life . |
| 12 | When the pub landlord or cellarman considers that the beer is ready to serve — it is said to have ‘ dropped bright ’ with the sediment of yeast in the belly of the cask , and to have matured sufficiently — a long plastic tube is connected to the tap and the beer is ready to be pulled to the bar . |
| 13 | It is said to offer independent hotels the kind of exposure which hotels in big groups can derive from international booking systems — owned , typically , by the big airlines . |
| 14 | Alibert fresh pasta from Olga Catering is also in special packaging , which is said to give it a guaranteed shelf-life of 60 days . |
| 15 | VITALITE Light is a sunflower oil spread which is said to be high in polyunsaturated fat , and low in saturated fat and cholesterol . |
| 16 | AMERICAN ring doughnuts from The Delicious Donut Co are made from a flour which is said to give them a light , fluffy , and non-greasy consistency . |
| 17 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 18 | It might also help to make a note of your doctor 's answers as a reminder of what is said , for example about any medicines you should take . |
| 19 | And they stare , ca n't stop , they know what is said of the claws , the biting words from her jaws , and a shiver tightens the pores of their hairless flesh . |
| 20 | It is said that prior to birth the angels instruct the child in full knowledge of life and the universe . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is said that his influence came through his extraordinary power , both learned and ‘ uncanny ’ , to rearrange suggestively the letters of the divine Name ( the Tetragrammaton : YHWH ) , which are so sacrosanct that they are considered to be unpronounceable . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The human mind — which , from this viewpoint , is the brain — is said to work on the same plan as a computer , with operations being carried out on physical symbols . |
| 25 | A pronunciation of a word is said to be assembled when it is built up piecemeal from its component letters . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Dauberval is said to have borrowed steps and gestures from such people to give his ballet greater reality . |
| 28 | Joseph Truman , ‘ based on papers now lost ’ , is said to have set up business as a brewer in 1666 , the year of the Great Fire of London . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |