Example sentences of "[verb] [be] said to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trade union or union official calling its members out on strike is therefore protected but it has been said to be arguable that an individual striker has no protection against a claim that he uses unlawful means when he withdraws his labour because this situation does not appear to fall within section 13(1) . |
| 2 | Freud 's work has been said to be unusable for this reason — that is , that it , too , was based on a biased sample . |
| 3 | The canvassing by a member of other members of the court , for or against a forthcoming application , has been said to be improper : Macdougall v. Miller ( 1900 ) 8 S.L.T. 284 ; and has led to proceedings being quashed : R. v. Ferguson ( 1890 ) 54 J.P . |
| 4 | In no sense can this market be said to be mature . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home . |
| 6 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 7 | Badgers are quite rare in the Doncaster area , where digging and baiting is said to be rife . |
| 8 | The following are some of the features that have been said to be characteristic of primitive societies . |