Example sentences of "[noun sg] be said to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff who witnessed the murder are said to be very distressed . |
| 2 | Quality consciousness is said to be very high among Japanese workers who endeavour to eliminate components that are rejected as substandard . |
| 3 | The buying is said to be largely from America , where investors are beginning to take a more optimistic view of their economy while showing concern about renewed Middle East tension . |
| 4 | With Frigi-Thalgo , inch loss is said to be almost permanent after six or more sessions — dieting and exercise included — and noticable loss is possible within a £35 one-hour session , with the effect lasting 48 hours . |
| 5 | Whose penis was said to be as damn near as big as his guitar ? |
| 6 | ‘ Described as a ‘ law professor 's dream ’ , the law was said to be far too complicated for easy day-to-day use . |
| 7 | At one stage the Hinkley Point site was said to be officially designated as ‘ remote ’ , because the number of people living in the immediate vicinity was small — about 1,500 . |
| 8 | The youngster was taken to Bishop Auckland General Hospital where his condition last night was said to be quite comfortable and improving . |
| 9 | Digital picture quality is said to be still no match for conventional photographic film but the big advantage is immediacy . |
| 10 | There is a universal indestructible ‘ I ’ ( called Manas ) and each individual man is said to be merely a ray projected down from it . |
| 11 | Frederick 's bed is said to be still in the palace , hanging from iron chains . |
| 12 | The man who collected the cash-card is said to be about 30 years of age of medium build with black curly hair and clean-shaven . |
| 13 | The ruling was said to be partly based on a case brought in a British court by a Maze prisoner who had alleged maltreatment by prison officers . |
| 14 | In 1654 , only a year after Cromwell had taken the title of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth , the School was the stage for the preaching of the independent divine , Samuel Eaton , a remarkable orator , whose speeches against the Book of Common Prayer were said to be so powerful that his listeners would refuse to go to Church . |
| 15 | People in Schweinfurt itself who had suffered directly from the bombing were said to be completely demoralized and had declared that they would not hold out much longer in ‘ such nerve-racking days ’ . |
| 16 | The average wage is said to be about $25.00 a month . |
| 17 | It is in this sense that monopoly is said to be economically inefficient , and to misallocate resources through the restriction of output . |
| 18 | One well-known television personality is said to be rather hard on the teleprompter operators . |
| 19 | In Venice the corruption was said to be principally related to an understanding between local sections of the PSI and the DC , and to have involved the payment of bribes by businessmen for the award of public contracts in motorway construction and waterworks projects . |
| 20 | The court will not want the defendant to be liable indefinitely for damage and will impose a cut off point beyond which the damage is said to be too remote . |
| 21 | Some plants , however , are known to be efficiently dispersed by two quite distinct types of agent , e.g. the fruits of Faramea occidentalis ( Rubiaceae ) on Barro Colorado Island are eaten by a range of mammals and birds , but dispersal is said to be principally effected by howler and white-faced monkeys and by crested guans . |
| 22 | The system is said to be particularly useful for industrial and scientific applications like molecular modelling , computer animation , robotics control . |
| 23 | If you can find someone with a key to let you in , the interior of the chapel is said to be interestingly decorated , but the one time I was in Harambels I could find cows but no people . |
| 24 | Of all the ministers present for today 's crucial session of future spending and tax plans , Michael Partial , the chief secretary to the Treasury is said to be most eager to see further cuts in the military . |
| 25 | The Americans position is said to be more complicated . |
| 26 | James 's family were said to be absolutely devastated . |
| 27 | The cortex is said to be retinotopically mapped . |
| 28 | A language is said to be recursively enumerable if a program could be written that would print out each sentence of the language . |
| 29 | His power was said to be so great that each one of the dhāmis , when possessed by him , could split an iron cooking tripod with a single blow of his naked hand . |
| 30 | The ‘ tightly knit ’ Asian community , symbolized by the ‘ tightly knit ’ Asian family was said to be more likely to create a supportive educational environment ( DES , 1985 , p. 85 ) . |