Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] said [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's said to be the daughter of a English general and apparently very beautiful … a good bit younger than him , of course . ’ |
| 2 | Children being what they are , she was said to be a witch . |
| 3 | Two medical practitioners , neither of whom previously knew the patient , recommended her detention in hospital because she was said to be a paranoid schizophrenic with signs of aggressive , overactive and irrational behaviour . |
| 4 | She was said to be the most beautiful girl in the whole island , with a fair complexion , blue eyes and golden-brown hair . |
| 5 | She was said to be the most handicapped person in Britain at that time , since , due to a rare muscular disease , she was paralysed throughout her whole body except in her big toe . |
| 6 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 7 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 8 | It 's said to be a symbolic tale with the casting out of the snakes related to the ousting of the old beliefs . |
| 9 | It is said to be a luminous and dynamic nature capable of independent existence apart from its physical counterpart . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is said to be a sort of fluorescent greenish-yellow purple . ) |
| 14 | If the statement does not become incorporated into the contract it is said to be a representation ; something said in the course of the negotiations leading up to the contract itself . |
| 15 | It is said to be an overcoat warmer in the valley , but shelter from the north is no compensation for the deep-freeze effect as the frosts drain down to the river . |
| 16 | From heavy use in earlier years ( it is said to be an old droving road ) , the path 's formation had sunk , so that in places there are banks on both sides , a perfect place for water to collect . |
| 17 | It is said to be the most photographed village in Norway . |
| 18 | It is said to be the tree on which Judas Iscariot hanged himself , after which its pink blossom turned dark red in shame . |
| 19 | It is said to be the only tide mill in western Europe that is still operating . |
| 20 | Called Tickford Bridge , it is said to be the oldest iron bridge in Britain still in constant use . |
| 21 | It is said to be the longest-lived of the British dairy and dual-purpose breeds ; it is also hardy and with a low incidence of metabolic disease . |
| 22 | The agreement is also seen as a landmark in that it is said to be the first time that Apple has licensed Macintosh technology under such an OEM agreement , terms of which were not disclosed . |
| 23 | It is said to be the philosophy of government administrators , dangerous in their hands , corrupting treated as the basis of private morality . |
| 24 | It is said to be the smallest complete X Terminal design available , covering just under 50 square inches of broad space . |
| 25 | Dating from the seventeenth century , it is said to be the largest antique one-handed clock in existence . |
| 26 | His description of the group culminates in the famous formulation of the " perfect law of art " of which it is said to be the embodiment : |
| 27 | At this point , the DC is in state CREATED and the user who created it is said to be the ‘ associated user ’ . |
| 28 | It was said to be a soup-to-nuts A-to-Z kind of thing and the software vendors rejected it out of hand as offering them nothing . |
| 29 | It was said to be a sentence he 'll carry for the rest of his life . |
| 30 | It was said to be the site of the shrine of the goddess Mumba Devi or Maha Amba who gave her name to Bombay . |