Example sentences of "[is] said to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time when the income of many of the top charities is said to be either static , or to have fallen , it 's essential for public in the private sector , do not forsake their supporting role . |
| 2 | God may be totally other to humanity , but at the same time ( as in the quotation from sura 50 ) God is said to be closer to a human being than is his or her jugular vein . |
| 3 | That is said to be no longer true in South Africa where a general feeling of ‘ tiredness ’ in the Church is alleged . |
| 4 | It is in this sense that monopoly is said to be economically inefficient , and to misallocate resources through the restriction of output . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One well-known television personality is said to be rather hard on the teleprompter operators . |
| 7 | CELEX is open to the public and is available to subscribers by network , although that is said to be rather difficult to use . |
| 8 | Claimed to be more user friendly is a product from Interpet , Pond Balance , which is said to be environmentally safe and actually encourage plant growth . |
| 9 | ‘ Given a relation R , the attribute B is said to be functionally dependent on attribute A if at every instant of time each value of A has no more than one value of B associated with it in the relation R. ’ |
| 10 | If only one vector x exists for which Ax = 0 , A is said to be simply degenerate , or to have simple degeneracy ; if more than one such vector x exists , A has multiple degeneracy . |
| 11 | ‘ Many of the artists in the 1993 Biennial exhibition work consciously to deconstruct and de-center the politically constructed site of whiteness and its relation to the ever-changing direction of Americanness ’ , writes one newly appointed curator , who is said to be already organising an exhibition scheduled for 1995 on the deconstruction of the African-American male , ‘ the body provides an immediate site for discussions of culture , gender , class , and sexual specificity . |
| 12 | If a business makes both exempt and taxable supplies , it is said to be partially exempt and will be able to recover only part of the input VAT . |
| 13 | It is said to be slightly yellowish , though I have never seen any colour in it either with the naked eye or with binoculars . |
| 14 | Neighbouring Azici , an even more rural community , is said to be completely destroyed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Suzanne , who had also been burned by cigarettes , is said to be critically ill . |
| 17 | He is said to be particularly strong on heritage . |
| 18 | The picture enhancement feature is called H.261 Plus , and is said to be particularly effective at lower data rates in the 128Kbps to 384Kbps range , although it operates at speeds from 64Kbps to 2.048Mbps . |
| 19 | The system is said to be particularly useful for industrial and scientific applications like molecular modelling , computer animation , robotics control . |
| 20 | Tony Blair , Labour 's Employment Secretary , is said to be privately impressed that fewer days are now lost to strikes than at any time in the past 60 years . |
| 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 | Before we plunge into that debate we ought to recognize that recruitment to elite positions in the public and private sectors is said to be highly meritocratic . |
| 23 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 24 | Her chess , too , is said to be more positional . |
| 25 | But even Fujitsu is said to be more interested in Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and the new Unix axis it is forging with its affiliates — see opposite . |
| 26 | The Americans position is said to be more complicated . |
| 27 | ‘ A most curious-looking young man with a mobile white face and small red-rimmed eyes ; he is said to be very clever as well as deeply religious . |
| 28 | Alain Carignon , forty-four , mayor of Grenoble since 1983 , and President of the Department of Isère , is said to be very keen on the post and possible the strongest candidate . |
| 29 | Pain , or at least the consciousness of pain ( for Moore professes to distinguish these ) , is said to be very bad , but the main other things which he regards as bad are the enjoyment of ugly things , and the dislike of beautiful things ! |
| 30 | Quality consciousness is said to be very high among Japanese workers who endeavour to eliminate components that are rejected as substandard . |