Example sentences of "[adv] be said to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The subsidence costs are incurred by British Coal and so are said to be internalized . |
2 | In the strictest sense then , the subject of this chapter are the six Warsaw Pact members of Eastern Europe which , along with Mongolia , could alone be said to be bound to the ‘ socialist commonwealth ’ . |
3 | A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length . |
4 | The principle must be that although affray is a continuing offence , where the participants can no longer be said to be using or threatening violence towards another person , the offence is complete . |
5 | The current Tsunami run meanwhile is said to be exceeding expectations in speed and yield . |
6 | And a further principle was established — that of ‘ conflict of interest ’ , in which a manager who advises an artist to sign with his own recording and music publishing companies can hardly be said to be acting impartially , or necessarily in the best interests of his client . |
7 | In such a situation , the participants may , in fact , ‘ speak topically ’ , but they might also be said to be speaking on a topic . |
8 | The most familiar is that of total ignorance , in the sense of making no response at all , and which could also be said to be based on total ignorance . |
9 | A learner driver sitting behind the steering wheel is a driver even though the qualified driver has control of the vehicle as well and could also be said to be driving . |
10 | Not all organizations that claim to be seeking control of the government can realistically be said to be doing so . |
11 | Paradoxically , if such a person were to fail to give notice , he might then be said to be committing an offence even though , because of the hypothesised publicity , it is most unlikely that the police will not already know about his proposed march . |
12 | The novel 's role could then be said to be to question the way we think about culture . |
13 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
14 | The journalists to whom I am referring can more solemnly be said to be practising a modern art of indirection , of the unintelligible and the interminable . |