Example sentences of "[ex0] is said [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between men and women , too , there is said to be a barrier . |
| 2 | There is said to be a grandmother at Ross Carbery who can sing the whole of ‘ The Battle of Ross Carbery ’ , another local ballad . |
| 3 | In the key marginal seat of Stretchford North , for instance , where John Grudge , nephew of the veteran retiring member Arthur Grudge , is standing for Labour against the Conservative Mike Jelkes ( formerly known as the Hon M. S. B. St J. St X. Haggard-Jelkes ) and the Liberal Democrat Frank Pale-Jones , a former official of the British Boring Board of Control , there is said to be such a degree of apathy that any one of the 26 ‘ fringe ’ candidates may easily win . |
| 4 | In most countries the other sexually transmitted diseases are not reported , but , where they are , there is said to be a general increase in all infections , particularly non-specific urethritis . |
| 5 | There is said to be , always , one bright spot on the horizon . |
| 6 | There is said to be an area on the knee called The Three-Mile Point ; it sounds wonderful for runners because , practitioners say , if you touch it in the right way , you 'll have enough energy to run another three miles . |
| 7 | Apparently , however , WABI has been turned into a product and packaged , and there is said to be some kind of cross-productisation afoot with parent company Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 8 | Similarly there is said to be ‘ the opportunity for increasing the manageability of the whole system ’ by enabling local network management to extend into the wide area network . |
| 9 | There is said to be a rough period of about 100 days , but I have never been able to confirm this . |
| 10 | Although the tasks that make up housework are dissimilar , there is said to be a ‘ sameness ’ about them which derives from their frequent need to be repeated , their lack of intrinsic meaning , and the impermanence of the goals they achieve . |
| 11 | Many baby orangs are caught in the forests of Indonesia and taken by ship to Taiwan , where they are sold as pets , shop props and showbiz gimmicks — so many , in fact , that there is said to be a greater density of orangs in Taiwan 's capital city , Taipei , than in their own habitat . |
| 12 | There is said to be a Slovene General 4,000 Serbs 4,000 White Russians Probably the same as those which attempted to surrender to us two nights ago . |
| 13 | There is said to be many decorated examples using dot and line relief , but I have found only two such decorated ones during my twenty years of detecting . |
| 14 | There is said to be mismatch between the mother tongue and the target language at these points . |
| 15 | In cases ( a ) and ( b ) where the thing promised or performed is precisely the thing which the promisor is already bound to do and no more , and there is no dispute that he is bound to do it , there is said to be no consideration or only illusory consideration for the new promise , and it is not enforceable . |
| 16 | In this event there is said to be market failure . |
| 17 | If the market does not achieve an efficient allocation of resources there is said to be market failure . |
| 18 | Oscillation is clearly just prevented and there is said to be critical damping ( refer back to figure 4.15(b) ) |