Example sentences of "[noun] be said to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schooldays are said to be the happiest days in your life but for Asian children in Britain they are often the harshest . |
| 2 | The cell is said to be the remains of an ancient Carthaginian temple . |
| 3 | Plenty of people skirted the area : in 1730 Whitehaven was said to be the third busiest port in England , after London and Bristol . |
| 4 | ( In Chan Man-sin the thing in action was said to be the benefit of the contract with the bank . ) |
| 5 | With step-by-step diagrams and photography plus an A to Z listing of garden plants , plant propagation is said to be the cheapest way of getting a well-stocked garden . |
| 6 | A large circular flat stone on the green is said to be the remains of the market cross . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is a very simple denial of deafness and corrupts the most fundamental aspect of scientific investigation : the elements which are the outcome are said to be the cause . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Other major weaknesses were said to be the emphasis on skilled employment , of either the apprenticed or respectable kind , and the individualist approach to the problem . |
| 11 | This double vision of the woman-goddess is said to be the mainspring of Shakespeare 's tragedies . |
| 12 | For any symmetric section , one possibility being a section of the form of figure 9.14(a) with , the two iterative impedances are equal and the common impedance is said to be the characteristic impedance as stated earlier . |
| 13 | The Making Belfast Work initiative is said to be the centre of economic development policy in West Belfast . |
| 14 | After all as one employer opined , " twelve years is said to be the maximum working life of a woman compositor " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The source of these collections was said to be the papal registers . |
| 17 | The Emperor Karl Franz is said to be the greatest statesman in the Old World . |
| 18 | If a fine is not enough , custody is said to be the only adequate penalty . |
| 19 | Church of the Holy Sepulchre is said to be the oldest building in Northampton and the largest and best preserved of the medieval round churches in the Country . |
| 20 | The differences are said to be the following : |
| 21 | The self-regulation of the profession and the high standards demanded of its members are said to be the justification for the monopolies enjoyed by those engaging in the activity and by the restrictive practices permitted . |
| 22 | Parker is said to be the self-confessed most Left wing man in Britain , an urban warrior with a mission . |
| 23 | In Titus 3:5 the Holy Spirit is said to be the one who not only regenerates us , but who renews us ; and this work of renewal of our natures from within is stressed in Romans 12:2 ( as we present our bodies a living sacrifice to God ) and in Colossians 3:10 . |
| 24 | The introduction of an obligatory consignment of 25 per cent of farm produce from individual farms to the state was said to be the potential means of bankrupting private farmers , as it would be administered by the nomenklatura ( the local authorities ) . |
| 25 | This hard , fast and unmelodic ‘ punk ’ music was said to be the new music of the skinheads . |
| 26 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 27 | The key outstanding issues were said to be the establishment of a single army , modalities of a ceasefire , and elections . |
| 28 | In fact when God created this world he is described as working ( Gen. 2:13 ) , and frequently the world is said to be the work of his hands . |
| 29 | Totemism is the earliest form of religion , according to Freud , and he quotes Robertson Smith 's The Religion of the Semites in which the sacrifice of an animal at the altar is said to be the most fundamental element in religion . |
| 30 | The 65 ft tower is said to be the best-proportioned tower in Holderness . |