Example sentences of "[pron] is said to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | VITALITE Light is a sunflower oil spread which is said to be high in polyunsaturated fat , and low in saturated fat and cholesterol . |
| 3 | For instance , in South-Eastern fashion , I name that commodity the love of which is said to be the root of all evil as ‘ munny ’ ; my Birmingham friend calls it ‘ mon-ay . ’ |
| 4 | One of the problems to have emerged is , however , the relativity of the concept of special educational need , which is said to be causing ‘ uncertainty and confusion ’ amongst LEAs , and consequently ‘ variations in the extent of and provision for special educational needs from LEA to LEA ’ . |
| 5 | Below the impermeable layer , water is trapped in the aquifer , which is said to be confined . |
| 6 | On Monday , the Assembly Rooms will open its doors on arts exhibition which is said to be the biggest ever promoted locally . |
| 7 | When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death . |
| 8 | The Open Software Foundation 's recent wrestling with its internal structure , which is said to be occasioned by its continuing financial angst , has resulted in a reorganisation that separates OSF/1 , the operating system that was its original raison d'etre , from the other technologies to which it has put its name . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Stateside gossip has it that Hitachi Ltd will announce a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ within the next 30 days : possibilities are either OSF/1 on its existing M-series mainframes , or the first fruits of its efforts with Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC , which is said to be a RISC-based Unix co-processor for the IBM-compatible mainframes . |
| 11 | There is a rough period which is said to be around 2070 days or just over 5½ years , but it is rough . |
| 12 | The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities has declared itself a potential purchaser but is apparently negotiating on the asking price which is said to be $2 million . |
| 13 | The new measures , similar to those in force in Britain and the US , were drawn up over the summer by Mr Lang 's Ministry , which is said to be interested in extending the French insurance model to the whole of Europe . |
| 14 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 15 | The function for English preferred by the Committee , then , is one of aligning the popular imagination and culture , ( what is elsewhere called the " public mind " ( see p.46 ) ) with a sense of communal identity having sufficient " sanity " to neutralize not only " the hostility towards " the culture of capitalism " now prevalent in Bolshevist Russia " , but indeed that antagonism and contempt for literature which is said to be found among " the working classes , especially those belonging to organised labour movements " . |
| 16 | Claimed to be more user friendly is a product from Interpet , Pond Balance , which is said to be environmentally safe and actually encourage plant growth . |
| 17 | If substantial public funds are to be made over to voluntary associations then , as Griffiths intimates , some form of audit ‘ becomes essential : and this raises the question of the independence of voluntary organisations , which is said to be one of their great virtues . |
| 18 | I had reservations about Monte Cristo , which is said to be infested with adders . |
| 19 | I 've also just been lent a political fiction saga by one of Mrs T 's former advisers which is said to be excellent . |
| 20 | It is the total state apparatus which is said to be ‘ overdeveloped ’ in relation to indigenous social classes . |
| 21 | A budget maximizing strategy is inconsistent with the aim of survival which is said to be the rational foundation for such a strategy ( Breton and Wintrobe 1979 ) . |
| 22 | GE Plastics has introduced a strong new alternative to glass for home use — Lexan Margarde , which is said to be very effective . |
| 23 | We 're very pleased , we put in about 18 months really hard work on this , we 've er done our development funding , we 've put in our plan which is said to be one of the best plans in the country , we worked very hard , we 're very pleased . |
| 24 | The unions backing Mr Smith are moving towards endorsement of proportional representation ; Mr Smith himself is said to be open-minded . |
| 25 | She is said to be bricked up in her room , spinning her hand loom for all eternity . |
| 26 | The big question now is how soon the blond from Henley will eclipse the blonde from Finchley , who is said to be planning a speech which would make Joan of Arc sound hesitant . |
| 27 | A GHOST who is said to be the guardian spirit of Somerset orchards , in south-western England . |
| 28 | The said belle is one Miss Stephanie Lowe , a blonde beauty and person , who is said to be co-habiting with Mr Schofield in a ‘ luxury Thameside home ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Many of the artists in the 1993 Biennial exhibition work consciously to deconstruct and de-center the politically constructed site of whiteness and its relation to the ever-changing direction of Americanness ’ , writes one newly appointed curator , who is said to be already organising an exhibition scheduled for 1995 on the deconstruction of the African-American male , ‘ the body provides an immediate site for discussions of culture , gender , class , and sexual specificity . |
| 30 | This evidently does not apply to God , who is said to be able ( although unlikely ) to create duplicate worlds . |