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 | Bukharin 's own theory of capitalist crisis can be said to be one of disproportionality . |
6 | As a research project , it could be said to be one of the ‘ old-fashioned ’ kind ; it had to be done on a shoestring . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | How far can the characteristics suggested for tribunals be said to be true of tribunals to the exclusion of other forms of dispute resolution ? |
11 | ‘ 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 . |