Example sentences of "[be] said to be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following are some of the features that have been said to be characteristic of primitive societies . |
| 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 | They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes . |
| 4 | The differences in organisation are said to be due to innate ability , and the kind of experience received . |
| 5 | The research and development costs of these drugs are said to be close to £10-£15 million . |
| 6 | Sponsors Dunlop are said to be unhappy with it and wanted it axed from the 1993 calendar . |
| 7 | Such waves are said to be capable of setting up oscillations which may damage a jointed structure , as the increases and decreases of pressure tend to pull jointed blocks away . |
| 8 | Thus in the valuable Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Basin , bands about an inch thick are said to be correlatable over an area of some 20000 square miles and even microscopic varves within those bands can be traced over 185 miles . |
| 9 | They are said to be similar to material distributed previously by Mr Round . |
| 10 | Eyes closed , the girls move in perfect synchronisation — even though they are said to be untrained in the intricate pattern of the dance . |
| 11 | Some of the conventional munitions are said to be equivalent in immediate destructiveness to nuclear weapons . |
| 12 | ACE inhibitors are said to be useful in acute myocardial infarction . |
| 13 | The gay love scenes were sensitively filmed , although the men had to wear boxer shorts for the US version as Americans are said to be touchy about testicles . |
| 14 | Consider , for example , two of the conditions which are said to be necessary for Monitor use : time and focus on form . |
| 15 | The President 's economists are said to be worried about the costs . |
| 16 | At the time of writing ( Oct 77 ) the Japanese MSDF are said to be interested in fifteen aircraft to replace its mixed fleet of thirty-four prop driven aircraft . |
| 17 | Beef , Chicken , Vegetable and Low-Fat Granular Beef flavours are said to be high in meat , chicken or vegetable extracts . |
| 18 | These shapes are said to be common to each of the three pictures . |
| 19 | The two are said to be concerned over Sun 's ability to deliver code on time and suspect it may not prioritise their platforms over Sun 's own . |
| 20 | The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders . |
| 21 | The two are said to be doubtful about Sun 's ability to deliver the code on time and they suspect the company may not give their systems priority over its own . |
| 22 | Leibniz 's view is that the sources of individuation lie within the entities themselves ; in other words , entities are regarded as basic , and places are said to be explicable in terms of relations between entities — " entities " meaning here " individual substances " or " monads " . |
| 23 | Environmental chemicals and foods are said to be responsible for an unlimited variety of symptoms which occur in the absence of physical findings or abnormal laboratory results . |
| 24 | Even the recipe for George Washington 's mother 's gingerbread allegedly found " in an old worn cookery book " dated 1784 , of which the first item on the list of ingredients is ½ cup of margarine , could be said to be honest in the sense that it is candidly admitted that margarine is what is actually now used in the kitchens at Claverton Manor , the American Museum near Bath where both the gingerbread and the leaflet giving the recipe are purveyed to the public . |
| 25 | Points of view could be said to be central to the formal legal enterprise . |
| 26 | Nevertheless it was held that any false indication given by the retailer could not be said to be due to the act or default of Cadbury since the retailer could quite easily have compared the weights and prices of his existing stock and the new bars to see if the label ‘ Extra value ’ was justified . |
| 27 | On the other hand , there is information which may be said to be external to the company , commonly referred to as market information . |
| 28 | Neither of these books , however , could be said to be intent on revenge . |
| 29 | Not until it does begin to react to such objects in recognisable and predictably different ways can the baby be said to be capable of noticing the objects in question . |
| 30 | A new form of layout can not , without more , be said to be capable of industrial application . |