Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] said [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we plunge into that debate we ought to recognize that recruitment to elite positions in the public and private sectors is said to be highly meritocratic . |
| 2 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 3 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 4 | Several big British companies are said to be ‘ extremely interested ’ . |
| 5 | High-ranking officials were said to be rigging privatization to their own advantage , using their influence in local administrations . |
| 6 | At the time when the income of many of the top charities is said to be either static , or to have fallen , it 's essential for public in the private sector , do not forsake their supporting role . |
| 7 | German firms are said to be dumping in Eastern Europe waste which it would be costly for them to dispose of in Germany itself , including radioactive uranium , used tyres and banned pesticides . |
| 8 | Popular activists were said to be resentful of the army takeover , expressing fears that the achievement of multiparty democracy might be further delayed . |
| 9 | Similarly , the child fixated at the anal stage will develop an ‘ anal character ’ , whose most marked traits are said to be orderliness , parsimony and obstinacy . |
| 10 | ‘ Tin Can Island ’ proclaim the postage stamps , and old ones are said to be almost as sought after as British Guiana Triangulars or Penny Blacks . |
| 11 | The aim of the Thatcherite reforms to the public services is said to be to give consumers the power to go elsewhere if they are not satisfied . |
| 12 | PLATFORM-soled shoes are said to be coming back . |
| 13 | Questions about actions are defined as those which seek to establish facts ; questions which explicitly or implicitly seek to criticize individual officials are said to be directed at their conduct . |
| 14 | If autonomous actions are said to be uncaused ( and hence undetermined ) they are left completely mysterious , and the prospects for individualism as a set of explanatory theories look very weak indeed . |
| 15 | The established professions are said to be based upon an underlying logic which is essentially instrumental ; the individual is seen as an instance of a general category . |
| 16 | Natural products are said to be … |
| 17 | Some 300 native applications are said to be in the process of moving to Solaris x86 . |
| 18 | Kloska 's findings echo those in other research ( e.g. Docking 1980 , Dunham 1977 , Kyriacou and Sutcliffe 1981 ) which record an increasing sense of occupational stress of which the predominant sources are said to be classroom control and pupil misbehaviour . |
| 19 | Some of the conventional munitions are said to be equivalent in immediate destructiveness to nuclear weapons . |
| 20 | Human beings are said to be slaves of habit . |
| 21 | The largest sustained activity by heads in primary schools is said to be teaching . |
| 22 | Other major weaknesses were said to be the emphasis on skilled employment , of either the apprenticed or respectable kind , and the individualist approach to the problem . |
| 23 | The causal items are said to be active , to be productive , to be geneses , to have potency or efficacy . |
| 24 | The DoH legal departments is said to be worried that children in care could take civil action against staff and , by implication , the government if staff pursue the tough line thought to be recommended . |
| 25 | But if you think of it as model of whole world , as great cathedrals were said to be , or physicists ' models today ? |
| 26 | The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders . |
| 27 | Advance orders are said to be pouring in for the LP Portrait and single Blue Days . |
| 28 | Subjective assessments are said to be less acceptable , but I offer mine , nevertheless , drawn from my own studies of the literature of the project ( including one evaluation so far completed ) , from talks with project workers and brief visits to schools . |
| 29 | After successive allegations by Sierra Leone in late March and early April that Taylor 's forces had raided Sierra Leonean villages , killing numbers of civilians , Sierra Leonean forces were reported by mid-April to be operating inside Liberian territory held by the NPFL , while NPFL troops with heavy weapons were said to be advancing into Sierra Leone , both sides claiming successes . |
| 30 | There were reports also of intercommunal fighting at the southern port town of Kismayu , from which thousands of hungry civilians were said to be fleeing northwards . |