Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be said to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Aerospace is said to be one of the key contenders to mount a rescue bid for Ferranti , a vital subcontractor providing navigational and radar equipment for BAe 's military aircraft . |
| 2 | The referential rigidity is said to be subject to a simple intuitive test . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the condition of the two year old boy is said to be improving . |
| 4 | Raw garlic is said to be preferable to kill bacteria and boost immune functioning . |
| 5 | This self-sustaining quality is said to be exemplified by current epistemologies . |
| 6 | The picture of the brutal rule of the Jews , for which Social Democracy was said to be preparing the way in Germany , provided the catalyst in the link-up of anti-Semitism and anti-Marxism . |
| 7 | The new French government is said to be taking a fresh look at the matter . |
| 8 | Traditionally the French nation was said to be divided on the basis of ‘ Three Cs ’ — the constitution , clericalism and class . |
| 9 | He does not smoke , but despite his diet , he has a penchant for champagne and his favourite food is said to be lobster . |
| 10 | Changes in social structure are said to be overdetermined by numerous contradictions . |
| 11 | Thus a government borrowing requirement financed wholly by the sale of debt to the non-bank private sector is said to be ‘ fully funded ’ . |
| 12 | For the subsidy of 1534 , thirty-nine noble families were assessed : their average income was said to be £921 , fifteen of them were assessed at over £1,000 and the highest income noted was £2,266 . |
| 13 | A level gutter with a central outlet is said to be capable of draining 210 sq . |
| 14 | This had been so ‘ from ancient times ’ ( izdrevle ) , and the peoples living within this vast area were said to be undertaking their seasonal migrations with Russian permission . |
| 15 | There is a universal indestructible ‘ I ’ ( called Manas ) and each individual man is said to be merely a ray projected down from it . |
| 16 | The average wage is said to be about $25.00 a month . |
| 17 | Post-natal depression is said to be common among immigrant women generally . |
| 18 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 19 | This large implication is said to be justified because Parliament must have intended to preserve the long-standing immunity against questioning after charge , and can not have intended to create a régime which would ‘ make a mockery of ’ ( A. v. H.M. |
| 20 | Another unifying principle is said to be the concept of trust . |
| 21 | Besides , even if the bureaucratic elite is more influential than in the West , their high status as permanent guardians of the national interest is said to be justified by their personal merit . |
| 22 | Some courts treat these terms in an omnibus fashion ; natural justice is said to be but a manifestation of a broader concept of fairness . |
| 23 | The other procedural advantage is said to be that it is open to a prosecutor to include a series of incidents in the one charge , rather than as a series of assaults . |
| 24 | The objection involves the feeling or perhaps the conviction that we can never state or explicitly describe such a thing as a causal circumstance is said to be , which is to say that we can not do something like give a complete enumeration of its elements : we can not give particular or individuating descriptions of all of them . |
| 25 | In short , the command of an East Indiaman was a very profitable situation , and accordingly the award of a good voyage was said to be |
| 26 | But surely there are no acts of introspection " that could in any intelligible sense be said to be identifiable independently of their objects , analogous to " acts of extrospection " . |
| 27 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 28 | The only factor undermining this powerful position is said to be the incompetence of the majority of government employees . |
| 29 | Sir Derek Alun-Jones , chairman of Ferranti , and some other directors of the troubled group are said to be ready to resign in February once a share issue to raise £187 million in finance for the group is agreed by shareholders .. |
| 30 | Caterling soon became shortened to ‘ Cat ’ and anyone adopting a particularly wicked smile was said to be ‘ grinning like a Cheshire Cat ’ . |