Example sentences of "said [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he said about being tall |
| 2 | This criticism is part of a wider attack on the use of classification of functions as a criterion for deciding issues such as the availability of judicial remedies to control administrative action ( the remedy of certiorari was at one time said to be available only if the decision-maker was under a duty to act ‘ judicially ’ ) , or the applicability of the rules of natural justice in particular circumstances ( sometimes said to apply only to ‘ judicial functions ’ ) . |
| 3 | However , eighteen beds said to be available at the Peasholme Centre in York are already full . |
| 4 | ‘ You said to be early , and we were , ’ said Alix . |
| 5 | • The Liberal Democrats , said to be anxious to climb on the green bandwagon , are proposing an Animal Protection commission with varying responsibilities from farmyard animals to goldfish in petshops . |
| 6 | The most that can be said is that the majority of individuals said to be non-right handed still show left hemisphere language representation ( Annett , Hudson , and Turner , 1974 ; Fleminger and Bunce , 1975 ; Clyma , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | all parts of considerable use in liver troubles , a good diuretic and tonic , also mild laxative ; juice said to be effective in treating warts |
| 8 | ICI 's pharmaceutical company in America is investing $24.7m ( £14m ) at its Newark , Delaware , complex to handle production of Merrem , an injectible drug said to be capable of treating sepsis and infections contracted by people taking leukaemia treatment . |
| 9 | Fellow undergraduates and tutors at the University were last night said to be stunned by the news of his death . |
| 10 | Other incidents included the discharge of oil-polluted water into the Main river and the discharge of a chemical cloud , said to be harmless , which coloured cars parked nearby turquoise . |
| 11 | Later , drive to the Buddhist Swayambhunath Stupa , said to be 2,000 years old . |
| 12 | On Nov. 1 Bulgarian police said that they had seized a quantity of plutonium-239 said to be Russian in origin . |
| 13 | After two circuits of the massive parade ground , said to be one of the largest in Great Britain , everyone is satisfied and the recruits return to their accommodation While the band retires for some well-earned refreshments . |
| 14 | Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration . |
| 15 | He was Alan Stephen Wild , 38 , said to be five feet nine inches , with fair hair . |
| 16 | Much has been written about the technological challenge of North Sea oil , said to be second only to the American space programme in scale . |
| 17 | Detectives have arrested two men , said to be fellow Russians . |
| 18 | Each field had its own small barn for wintering stock , a custom said to be typical of the early Norse settlers that came to this dale , leaving on the landscape the marks of their hands and on the speech the sound of their tongue . |
| 19 | In private banking , net provisions jumped from £1.6 million to £4.8 million , said to be due principally to unpaid mortgages . |
| 20 | He could remember how his father had said that he need bow his head to no man in Ireland , save the High Queen , and he could remember how he had laughed , and said to be sure he would call no man master , and certainly no woman either . |
| 21 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 22 | One of the older Gnomes , who had a face like a wrinkled nutcracker and bright twinkly eyes , asked would a bit of magic be of any use anywhere , because was n't magic a powerful thing when you had a difficulty , and the other Gnomes said to be sure it was . |
| 23 | ( Local GP said to be good ) |
| 24 | Apple Computer Inc 's personal digital assistant — now said to be code-named Newton — is being described as ‘ one of the most exciting electronics products in years ’ according to sources that spoke to the Associated Press . |
| 25 | I said to be chary of the McLaggans — ‘ No no , there is no harm really . |
| 26 | And in fact , the majority of the then extant SSAPs were judged either to be inapplicable or to have limited applicability ; five said to be applicable were : SSAP 2 ( Disclosure of Accounting Policies ) , SSAP 5 ( Value Added Tax ) , SSAP 9 ( Stocks ) , SSAP 10 ( Source and Application of Funds ) and SSAP 18 ( Contingencies ) . |
| 27 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 28 | Said to be trivial erm which meant it is n't erm book says that erm cos women talk about things like erm children and husband and things , |
| 29 | And is not the creation of a complementary marine park said to be imminent ? |
| 30 | Irina and Marcus , said to be busy with preparations for their move to the country , no longer visited . |