Example sentences of "[be] said to be [adj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sponsors Dunlop are said to be unhappy with it and wanted it axed from the 1993 calendar . |
| 2 | The concept of parental rights in education could be said to be concerned with the ability of parents to extend the control they are able to exert within the family to their child 's formal education , thus protecting their ‘ interest ’ in the child . |
| 3 | The second section looks at the various legal provisions which can be said to be concerned with certain specific social and moral educational objectives : the law on sex and race discrimination , religious education and collective worship , sex education and the coverage of political issues in the classroom . |
| 4 | Bruges goes to bed early and can hardly be said to be throbbing with night-life . |
| 5 | We shall say that the word form cousin is general with respect to the distinction ‘ male cousin ’ / ’ female cousin ’ ; bank , on the other hand , will be said to be ambiguous with respect to the sense distinction ‘ financial institution ’ / ’ side of river ’ . |
| 6 | Her replacement had proved a sad disappointment to the French soldiery , besides which the management and composer alike were said to be dissatisfied with the work in its present form . |
| 7 | M67 is in the field with Alpha ( 4.2 ) ; it is said to be visible with the naked eye , but I have never been able to confirm this , though with binoculars it is very easy indeed . |
| 8 | It is said to be visible with binoculars , but I have never been able to see it without a telescope . |
| 9 | Legal intervention , with its categorical rules and sanctions , is said to be incompatible with the adaptive , flexible , social interaction of teaching and learning . |
| 10 | A fragment of plastic circuit board found at Lockerbie was said to be identical with the circuit boards used in timing devices seized with a quantity of explosives from two Libyans at Dakar airport in February 1988 . |