Example sentences of "[be] said [prep] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said to be a fundamental contradiction in the Weberian model of bureaucracy . |
| 2 | This is despite a major reduction in the proportion of calls performed by deputising services , the use of which had been said to be the main factor increasing the numbers of night visits . |
| 3 | The two witnesses are said to be a retired Swiss shopkeeper who had business dealings with Mr Ryan in the early 1970s , and a British businessman who had dealings with Mr Ryan in Libya . |
| 4 | Its radiation emissions are said to be a severe health risk to local residents . |
| 5 | As in previous attacks on the protesters , the real agents provocateurs are said to be the Western media egging on the rabble . |
| 6 | Lifetime employment and seniority wages which are said to be the two defining features of the Japanese labour market , are closely related . |
| 7 | The differences are said to be the following : |
| 8 | The colours used on the façade of the palace are said to be the same as those originally used . |
| 9 | Schooldays are said to be the happiest days in your life but for Asian children in Britain they are often the harshest . |
| 10 | Not surprising , then , that Soho 's fire-fighters are said to be the busiest in the world . |
| 11 | To that extent there may be said to be a mental element required for this variety of manslaughter , but it is a manifestly low mental element compared with the death which results . |
| 12 | ‘ The case may be said to be a good example of the stringency with which the courts scrutinise transactions of guarantee entered into at the instance of a debtor who is likely to be in a position to exert influence on the surety and in circumstances in which the surety can derive no conceivable benefit from the transaction . |
| 13 | The Prince of Wales could hardly be said to be a good luck symbol at the moment . |
| 14 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 15 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |
| 16 | Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator . |
| 17 | When , however , its satisfactions depend upon the infliction of pain or damage upon an unwilling partner , the situation is again that of using a person as a mere object : the sadist ( or , sometimes , the masochist ) may genuinely be said to be a social and personal menace . |
| 18 | By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one . |
| 19 | That can not be said to be a full description of reason within the disciplines , for they can not be sustained without values and judgement . |
| 20 | If the scheme is comprehensive , it may also be said to be an unwieldy instrument for judges and juries to use . |
| 21 | Of course , as recognized by the judge in the above case , if the structure is dictated by function then it can be said to be an uncopyrightable idea although , often that will not be so ; there will be a variety of potential structures possible . |
| 22 | But for its lack of references , which surely are essential for the chapters on spectroscopy , the book that could be said to be the best is Ralph and Joan Fessenden 's Organic Chemistry ( Willard Grant , 2nd ed ) . |
| 23 | The subject in the USA is , therefore , still implicitly dominated by one major theoretical perspective , and given the dominance of US scholars in the literature at large , Realism can be said to be the major current approach . |
| 24 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 25 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 26 | The cows were said to be no more than fair milkers , but their milk was particularly creamy . |
| 27 | Main topics of the latest talks were said to be the new pluralist political system , a draft electoral law , and a timetable and monitoring arrangements for multiparty elections due to be held in 1992 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Two groups implicated were said to be the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA — an alliance formed in 1989 which grouped the opposition parties , including the Umma party , with the SPLA ) and a hitherto unknown group , Ana al-Sudan ( " I am Sudan " ) . |
| 30 | Floods in the southern provinces of Kompong Speu , Takeo , Kampot and Kandal which had begun in mid-August [ see p. 38390 ] and were said to be the worst in 50 years , left 100 people dead and washed away houses , roads , bridges and railway lines , and by Sept. 4 were threatening Phnom Penh . |