Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] is said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon Brown , who has been squeezed out of the leadership race by Smith ( although he is said to be consoled by the fact that he is ten years younger and can wait a generation ) will have an important contribution to make . |
| 2 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 3 | If it is said of a barrister that he has refused to appear for an unsavoury criminal , the ordinary reader may applaud , but his professional reputation is lowered amongst colleagues who understand the story to mean that he has betrayed his ethical duty to appear for all who seek his services . |
| 4 | If it is said in the context of a vicar with a bereaved family who are deeply religious it can mean , " Yes indeed , this will really help us " . |
| 5 | If it is said in a situation of trouble or danger at sea or at war it can be received , even by people who are not religious , as " Perhaps there is something in it . |
| 6 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 7 | The word ‘ aura ’ is derived from the Greek avra meaning breeze because it is said to be continually in motion . |
| 8 | Moreover , since it is said in a context where Adam has just manifestly failed to react to the punch-line as quickly as the set of other students , the speaker ( given this type of speaker to this type of hearer in this type of surroundings ) will be assumed not to be intending to tell an untruth , but to be implicating the opposite of what she has said . |
| 9 | Whether it is said of Krishna or Vishnu or Siva , the same structure of religious thought recurs . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that nothing is more insulting to women — whether it is said by women or men — than talk of setting targets for the number of women to be in top posts ? |
| 11 | When it is said in Psalms that the enemies will be smitten in the ‘ hinder parts ’ it has been thought by many people to refer to haemorrhoids , but the description could equally refer to the anal manifestations of secondary syphilis , condylomata lata . |
| 12 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 13 | Now , the constitution as it " really " is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , only really line up in times of political ( and therefore constitutional ) stability when there is agreement on clear and simple constitutional fundamentals . |
| 14 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 15 | As it is said in the East , ‘ only by seeking , can one find ’ . |