Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [be] said [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of these words which are said to be inadequate fail to satisfy one or other of the criteria outlined for a wording to establish a trust . |
| 2 | It began as a protest against the alleged peremptory nature of the decision by the NCB to close some working coal mines which were said to be uneconomic . |
| 3 | Compared to glassfibre boats they were said to be heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and , because they bent rather than broke , dangerous . |
| 4 | Consider , for example , two of the conditions which are said to be necessary for Monitor use : time and focus on form . |
| 5 | The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has been asked to look at the allegations and to arrange for certain persons who are said to be able to shed new light on the case to be interviewed . |
| 6 | If the market does not achieve an efficient allocation of resources there is said to be market failure . |
| 7 | The Nightriders collected cash for Children in Need from passengers who were said to be full of Christmas spirit . |
| 8 | Other decisions which are said to be examples of the substantive meaning of unreasonable could equally be resolved through the more traditional conceptions of purpose and relevancy . |
| 9 | I 've also just been lent a political fiction saga by one of Mrs T 's former advisers which is said to be excellent . |
| 10 | Lifetime employment and seniority wages which are said to be the two defining features of the Japanese labour market , are closely related . |
| 11 | Not only were the garotters thought to be visiting hot-blooded Neapolitan outrage upon English soil , but on other occasions they were said to be ‘ like the sanguinary fanatics of the French Revolution ’ as well as resembling the ‘ Indian ‘ thuggee' ’ ’ . |
| 12 | There not only does the fish fauna closely resemble that of the Middle Old Red Sandstone in Scotland , but the sediments themselves are said to be exactly like the Thurso Flagstone Group of Caithness . |