Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [be] said [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ridge walks are said to be second only to those of the Cuillin in Skye in terms of drama and scenery . |
| 2 | MADONNA 's new contract with Warner Brothers is said to be worth a cool $60 million . |
| 3 | The three remaining Sunni factions were said to be refusing to talk to Kabul . |
| 4 | The Romans were taking the Merano Cure from as early as the 4th century and its spring waters are said to be among the best in the world . |
| 5 | Debate in the early days of the new Assembly was reported as more lively than previously , and opposition members were said to be testing the government 's receptiveness to reform : 32 members called for the formation of a committee to investigate Kuwait 's failure to anticipate or respond to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] ; several members were said to have demanded an investigation of alleged mishandling of Kuwait 's overseas investments ; and a draft law was introduced that would widen the franchise , including extending the vote to women . |
| 6 | One of the cannon balls was said to be in the Hall in 1840 . |
| 7 | The public interest would not perhaps be regarded as well served if a fully qualified solicitor was effectively deprived of the opportunity of practising his profession : this may be behind the Scottish decision of Dallas McMillan & Sinclair v Simpson ( 1988 ) SLT 454 where the covenant purported to prevent the outgoing partner from practising as a solicitor within 20 miles of the centre of Glasgow , an area in which roughly half of Scotland 's law firms were said to be located . |
| 8 | Restrictive measures have been directed at Third World manufacturers whose electronic and electrical products , garments , shoes , toys , sporting and household goods were said to be unfairly flooding vulnerable First World markets . |
| 9 | HyperSparc 's integer and floating point chips are said to be complete — the instruction cache unit will be finished within a week , the company says . |
| 10 | ACE inhibitors are said to be useful in acute myocardial infarction . |
| 11 | In an effort to boost food production , office workers were reported to have been redeployed from Havana to farm jobs , and 20,000 Havana residents were said to be working shifts outside the city . |
| 12 | Sales maximization and market share objectives are said to be preferred in Japan to short-term profits , although the two strategies are not necessarily mutually exclusive . |
| 13 | In the Thames Region , water supplies are said to be robust . |
| 14 | Both television companies are said to be losing a lot of money on baseball . |
| 15 | Beef , Chicken , Vegetable and Low-Fat Granular Beef flavours are said to be high in meat , chicken or vegetable extracts . |
| 16 | Other Unix suppliers are said to be treating the IBM-Hewlett-Packard effort very cautiously — some are worried that it may turn out to be a Trojan horse for proprietary technologies . |
| 17 | Other Unix suppliers are said to be treating the IBM/HP effort very cautiously — some are worried that it may turn out to be a trojan horse for proprietary technologies ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 18 | Followers put the decline down to worries about prospects for the drinks company 's French associate , LVMH , amid reports of sharply lower luxury good sales in Tokyo.Similar pressures were said to be responsible for the decline in Rothmans ‘ B , ’ off 10 at £10.99 . |
| 19 | But corporation bosses are said to be privately seething . |
| 20 | The branch manager jobs are said to be going as part of a reorganisation which BIFU believes will lead to more job losses . |
| 21 | The advantages of matrix structures are said to be that : |
| 22 | Balanced tree indexing Indexes are said to be of order e when there are e records per index entry , and of height h , where there are h levels of the index . |
| 23 | Secular university choirs are said to be much better than church groups . |
| 24 | In this book authorities are said to be limited also by the kinds of reasons on which they may or may not rely in making decisions and issuing directives , and by the kind of reasons their decisions can pre-empt . |
| 25 | Its radiation emissions are said to be a severe health risk to local residents . |
| 26 | The three VAX servers are said to be able to cope with 1,000 transactions an hour , though so far they have been tested to only a few percent of their capacity . |
| 27 | The Bank has quadrupled its investment in environmental projects over the past year , from US$404 million to US$1,600 million , but critics charge that the money is being used to make projects look green rather than cancelling bad projects , which Bank officials are said to be reluctant to do . |
| 28 | By mid-February food stocks were said to be running low ; according to local reports , soldiers were sent to Matadi , the country 's main port , to unload ships and transport goods to the capital . |
| 29 | By March 31 Gamsakhurdia forces were said to be in retreat although railways and roads were still blocked . |
| 30 | Most of them went to the cities , or at any rate out of traditional rural pursuits , to find their way as best they could in strange , frightening , but at best boundlessly hopeful new worlds , where the city pavements were said to be paved with gold , though immigrants rarely picked up more than some copper . |