Example sentences of "[be] said to be [adj] of " in BNC.

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1 Not until it does begin to react to such objects in recognisable and predictably different ways can the baby be said to be capable of noticing the objects in question .
2 A new form of layout can not , without more , be said to be capable of industrial application .
3 The attitude towards science in the Eagle could be said to be typical of UK comics generally .
4 For it is being questioned whether a symbol which would appear to be necessarily male can be said to be inclusive of all humanity .
5 Skill in letter-writing is by no means evenly distributed among the population and letter-writers can not be said to be representative of the general population .
6 Only Richard Elliott , Headmaster of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Margate , and the Reverend William Stainer , chairman of the London Schools Board Classes for the Deaf , could be said to be representative of the dominant system of education then prevailing in British schools .
7 This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves .
8 How far can the characteristics suggested for tribunals be said to be true of tribunals to the exclusion of other forms of dispute resolution ?
9 ‘ Brother shall deliver up brother to death ’ could be said to be true of Jerome , for if he had not killed he had indeed delivered Aldhelm to his death .
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