Example sentences of "[noun pl] be said to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frontrunners are said to be British Aerospace and Daimler Benz . |
| 2 | The so-called chiral drugs ( from chiros — the Greek word for hands ) made with these molecules are said to be safer and more effective . |
| 3 | Such waves are said to be capable of setting up oscillations which may damage a jointed structure , as the increases and decreases of pressure tend to pull jointed blocks away . |
| 4 | The spectral type is F. In general F-stars are said to be yellowish , but I have never seen any colour in Canopus , either with the naked eye or with optical aid ; to me it looks pure white . |
| 5 | The three VAX servers are said to be able to cope with 1,000 transactions an hour , though so far they have been tested to only a few percent of their capacity . |
| 6 | The ridge walks are said to be second only to those of the Cuillin in Skye in terms of drama and scenery . |
| 7 | China 's own demands are said to be precise . |
| 8 | These shapes are said to be common to each of the three pictures . |
| 9 | At one moment six Emperors were said to be alive , each as impotent as the others . |
| 10 | In an age when décolletage mattered , her shoulders were said to be superb . |
| 11 | HyperSparc 's integer and floating point chips are said to be complete — the instruction cache unit will be finished within a week , the company says . |
| 12 | The footsteps are said to be those of an unfortunate platelayer who was killed shortly after the introduction of the electric trains . |
| 13 | Beef , Chicken , Vegetable and Low-Fat Granular Beef flavours are said to be high in meat , chicken or vegetable extracts . |
| 14 | Leibniz 's view is that the sources of individuation lie within the entities themselves ; in other words , entities are regarded as basic , and places are said to be explicable in terms of relations between entities — " entities " meaning here " individual substances " or " monads " . |
| 15 | The President 's economists are said to be worried about the costs . |
| 16 | The Bank has quadrupled its investment in environmental projects over the past year , from US$404 million to US$1,600 million , but critics charge that the money is being used to make projects look green rather than cancelling bad projects , which Bank officials are said to be reluctant to do . |
| 17 | Banks are said to be concerned that they could be liable for pollution from land or property they take as security , and insurers say they may not be able to offer environmental cover in future , restricting coverage to sudden or accidental pollution . |
| 18 | Observers were said to be surprised at the decision to hold elections during the Christmas holiday period , when most Kenyans with jobs in cities would have returned to their rural homes in areas where they had not necessarily registered to vote . |
| 19 | Listening to her and Ferdinando discussing the latest onslaught — Piedmontese troops were said to be sweeping south throughout the summer — Wilson could hardly believe the enthusiasm displayed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The examples listed earlier suggest that it covers a vast variety of relations ; for example the relation between capitalists and workers is said to be one of oppression , while that between factions of the ruling class might be competition . |
| 22 | Moreover these gods are said to be more part of the world 's spiritual furniture than transcendent of it — perhaps more like the saints in Catholic tradition . |
| 23 | The main reasons for these changes are said to be economic pressures , grant aid , and a gradual replacement of older , smaller , and more conservative farmers with younger , larger and more profit-orientated farmers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Some delegates were said to be angry at Kuwait 's intransigence , including officials from Nigeria who said their country needed oil revenues as much as any other because of difficult economic problems . |
| 26 | Inside the embassy , conditions were said to be worse that ever , with intense pressure on sanitary facilities . |
| 27 | The informal ceiling placed on share option deals by institutional investors is said to be one reason . |
| 28 | Redundancy pay of one point four million pounds was said to be excessive . |
| 29 | The forgeries are said to be good quality copies . |
| 30 | These solids are said to be amorphous . |