Example sentences of "[det] [noun] be said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any energy there will be at least one closed orbit , and this orbit is said to parent the family of non-closed orbits that librate around it . |
| 2 | Putting and making the inverse transformation via equation ( 11.32 ) or Again there is an absence of oscillation and the circuit in this condition is said to be overdamped ( refer back to figure 4.15(b) again ) . |
| 3 | In the locker room — no ordinary changing room this , but a soft paradise of fluffy towels , hairdryers , lotions , masseurs , electronic scales , isometric drinks , cardio-vascular scans and congratulatory attendants — he told a well-known ( everyone in this club is said to be well-known ) producer that he took the first three games off me in each set . |
| 4 | This sluice is said to ‘ sleep ’ . |
| 5 | Implicitly , if not explicitly , papal letters could with some truth be said to be ultimum quasi robur and firmamentum of the whole case . |
| 6 | Some delegates were said to be angry at Kuwait 's intransigence , including officials from Nigeria who said their country needed oil revenues as much as any other because of difficult economic problems . |
| 7 | And , however badly Ratner appears to have screwed up the company 's finances — and public image — some people are said to be still willing to give him financial support . |
| 8 | Central to this approach is said to be an emphasis upon guidance from the best available scientific evidence . |
| 9 | Some $350m is said to be in Swiss banks . |
| 10 | Some underwriters were said to be selling to hedge their commitment . |
| 11 | This expansion is said to be " inflationary , " meaning that the universe at one time expanded at an increasing rate rather than the decreasing rate that it does today . |
| 12 | Some women are said to be ‘ dangerous ’ if they act as many men do all the time . |
| 13 | This tendency is said to be exacerbated by the growth of institutional holdings , the institutions themselves exhibiting a short-termist attitude , conspicuous in the fund managers engaged by them . |
| 14 | The low and high-pass , L-C , ladder filters already discussed in this section are said to be constant-k filters because the product of the series and parallel impedances is independent of frequency , which fact can be expressed in terms of a constant k as For the low and high-pass filters considered , k is just . |
| 15 | Such groups were said to be like the foreigners in the adjacent forces , for it was constantly repeated that many wanted to join us but failed because of some inadequacy . |
| 16 | Such waves are said to be capable of setting up oscillations which may damage a jointed structure , as the increases and decreases of pressure tend to pull jointed blocks away . |
| 17 | The nuclei of certain atoms resemble tops in that they have an intrinsic angular momentum — or spin , such atoms are said to be polarised when they are all spinning in the same direction . |
| 18 | Such liquids are said to be immiscible . |
| 19 | Such rocks are said to be permeable ; sandstones and gravels are good examples of permeable rocks . |
| 20 | The so-called chiral drugs ( from chiros — the Greek word for hands ) made with these molecules are said to be safer and more effective . |
| 21 | These shapes are said to be common to each of the three pictures . |
| 22 | Furthermore , these circumstances are said to be essentially heterogeneous , so that they can not be seen as aspects of one large contradiction ; each is a contradiction within a particular social totality . |
| 23 | The source of these collections was said to be the papal registers . |
| 24 | The main reasons for these changes are said to be economic pressures , grant aid , and a gradual replacement of older , smaller , and more conservative farmers with younger , larger and more profit-orientated farmers . |
| 25 | Moreover these gods are said to be more part of the world 's spiritual furniture than transcendent of it — perhaps more like the saints in Catholic tradition . |
| 26 | These solids are said to be amorphous . |
| 27 | The research and development costs of these drugs are said to be close to £10-£15 million . |
| 28 | In various parts of the Bible all these offerings are said to " alone " — to cover sin — indicating that any act of worship was set squarely in the context of God 's forgiving grace . |
| 29 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 30 | Half of all aircraft are said to be inoperable and two thirds of all vessels are in port at any given time . |