Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 2 | His description of the group culminates in the famous formulation of the " perfect law of art " of which it is said to be the embodiment : |
| 3 | This … this cousin Mary of Mother 's , whatever she 's said about her , might be a compassionate woman ; and I do n't think she has any children of her own . |
| 4 | Like adjectives , verbs also have external incidence : their lexical content evokes a state or process which does not of itself define what it is said of . |
| 5 | Organised by Brian and Anna Houghton , the London ceramics dealers who have launched two highly regarded specialist fairs in London during the past few years , it offered New Yorkers two innovations ; an expert vetting committee , which checked that every item was genuinely what it was said to be — there had never been vetting in America before — and a showcase in their own city of top European dealers ' wares . |