Example sentences of "[be] said to be [adj] [conj] " 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 | Accordingly , shorelines are said to be submergent or emergent depending upon the most strongly marked characteristics present . |
| 3 | ( ii ) The polynomial unc and the above polynomial unc are said to be equal iff ai = bi for all on-negative integers i . |
| 4 | Mr and Mrs Key are said to be grief-stricken and still undergoing therapy after the loss of their baby sons . |
| 5 | Two matrices , A , B are said to be equivalent if one can be derived from the other by any finite number of elementary operations of the types specified above . |
| 6 | Half of all aircraft are said to be inoperable and two thirds of all vessels are in port at any given time . |
| 7 | His White House advisers are said to be worried that the Energy Department is still too keen on conservation and regulation . |
| 8 | Nerves that communicate with the use of acetylcholine are said to be cholinergic and are found in the peripheral and central nervous systems . |
| 9 | They are said to be yellow or mottled brown in colour , often with seaweed-like manes . |
| 10 | Banks are said to be concerned that they could be liable for pollution from land or property they take as security , and insurers say they may not be able to offer environmental cover in future , restricting coverage to sudden or accidental pollution . |
| 11 | ( The sets X and Y are said to be incomparable if |
| 12 | Amplifier circuits that oscillate parasitically through accidental positive feedback are said to be unstable and , unless their design can be modified to render them stable , are useless for amplification purposes . |
| 13 | Recent reports have suggested some local authorities are putting pressure on the government to settle early and avoid huge payouts ; they 're said to be concerned that if the case is drawn out , more haemophiliacs will die , and in the event of the ruling going against the government , relatives will be eligible for compensation . |
| 14 | The Nairacs , now in their eighties , declined to comment , but they 're said to be hopeful that one day they WILL be able to give their son a proper burial . |
| 15 | The first might be said to be context- and task-independent : we can understand what a sequence of symbols is meant to represent , without understanding the context within which those symbols might be put to use . |
| 16 | In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible . |
| 17 | No area of the law can ever be said to be easy but the legislation dealing with obscene and indecent publications seems to be unduly complicated . |
| 18 | These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet . |
| 19 | In adjudicating , a meaning is attributed to a rule of law which can not be said to be correct or incorrect . |
| 20 | I mean I know an awful lot of people outside Harlow who who come here but Harlow people could be said to be apathetic or not being marketed rightly . |
| 21 | Miss Ellis writes cleverly and without wasting words , and her tale of Lili whose father is Egyptian and whose mother English , and whose own nature allows her to assume either nationality as the whim takes her , can be said to be compact and readable . |
| 22 | Is saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm so tired ’ natural tiredness-behaviour for us , in spite of the fact that ‘ I 'm tired ’ , unlike yawning , even pretence yawning , can be said to be true or false ? |
| 23 | Thus each group of accounts might be said to be objective but they are not comparable . |
| 24 | But other concerns seem to centre around whether animals might properly be said to be happy or free from worry' , not in the sense of being healthy and free from pain but rather with the human paradigm in mind . |
| 25 | Consider the extent to which the approach can be said to be atomistic or holistic , bottom-up or top-down . |
| 26 | Some change is certainly necessary , but by itself can not be said to be sufficient or specific . |
| 27 | The Nigerian federal authorities were said to be concerned that the rioting could lead to polarization of the country 's Christian and Moslem areas , threatening plans to install an elected civilian government in 1992 . |
| 28 | In November 1940 , for example , ‘ personal economic worries ’ in the light of the coming second war winter were said to be widespread and to have given rise to ‘ discontented and sceptical thoughts ’ . |
| 29 | Local doctors were said to be sceptical because the water suppliers dosed the water with a large quantity of lime to prevent soluble forms of aluminium being formed as had happened at Camelford . |
| 30 | Others were said to be interested and the uncertainty continued . |