Example sentences of "[be] said to be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said to be a fundamental contradiction in the Weberian model of bureaucracy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Its radiation emissions are said to be a severe health risk to local residents . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The Prince of Wales could hardly be said to be a good luck symbol at the moment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If the scheme is comprehensive , it may also be said to be an unwieldy instrument for judges and juries to use . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 16 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 17 | It is said to be a nervous fish and it will probably benefit from the presence of other fish — acting as dither fish — to give it confidence . |
| 18 | This artist 's impression is said to be a good likeness of the attacker who 's thought to be in his late 30s and has a pot belly . |
| 19 | The Labour candidate , Mrs Sylvia Heal , who rarely departed from script , is said to be a personal friend of Mr Kinnock . |
| 20 | Recall from Chapter 6 that an equilibrium is said to be a stable one when economic forces tend to push the market towards it . |
| 21 | There is said to be a rough period of about 100 days , but I have never been able to confirm this . |
| 22 | As recently as 1980 Cash became addicted to morphine after an operation to crushed ribs sustained in a fight with an ostrich ( his home in Hendersonville , Tennessee , is said to be a real menagerie ) . |
| 23 | In most countries the other sexually transmitted diseases are not reported , but , where they are , there is said to be a general increase in all infections , particularly non-specific urethritis . |
| 24 | The term " Urgonian " has become almost a dirty word in Cretaceous stratigraphy , for it is not one of the internationally accepted stage names and it is said to be a diachronous , southern facies . |
| 25 | Many baby orangs are caught in the forests of Indonesia and taken by ship to Taiwan , where they are sold as pets , shop props and showbiz gimmicks — so many , in fact , that there is said to be a greater density of orangs in Taiwan 's capital city , Taipei , than in their own habitat . |
| 26 | The plant is said to be a state-of-the-art facility that forms transistors onto large glass substrates , in a class-100 clean room that has the similar level of air cleanliness to those used in the manufacture of LSI chips . |
| 27 | Stateside gossip has it that Hitachi Ltd will announce a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ within the next 30 days : possibilities are either OSF/1 on its existing M-series mainframes , or the first fruits of its efforts with Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC , which is said to be a RISC-based Unix co-processor for the IBM-compatible mainframes . |
| 28 | There is said to be a Slovene General 4,000 Serbs 4,000 White Russians Probably the same as those which attempted to surrender to us two nights ago . |
| 29 | It is said to be a luminous and dynamic nature capable of independent existence apart from its physical counterpart . |
| 30 | If the probability of being included is equal for each member of the relevant population then the sample is said to be a random one . |