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 | On Nov. 1 Bulgarian police said that they had seized a quantity of plutonium-239 said to be Russian in origin . |
| 12 | Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration . |
| 13 | Detectives have arrested two men , said to be fellow Russians . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In private banking , net provisions jumped from £1.6 million to £4.8 million , said to be due principally to unpaid mortgages . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( Local GP said to be good ) |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I said to be chary of the McLaggans — ‘ No no , there is no harm really . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 , |
| 25 | And is not the creation of a complementary marine park said to be imminent ? |
| 26 | Irina and Marcus , said to be busy with preparations for their move to the country , no longer visited . |
| 27 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc will launch its K2 series of multiprocessor Microsoft Corp Windows NT systems co-designed with Tricord Systems Inc on May 3 in the US — May 4 in the UK ( UX No 420 ) : Tricord has already launched the things as its 5000 series in the US running a variety of operating systems — though Sequent has an exclusive deal on NT versions ; as well as the low-end K2 boxes , Sequent will also be launching a series of high-end , Pentium-ready systems also said to be NT-capable . |
| 28 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 29 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 30 | Welsh Office inspector Brian Evans said to be able to agree to the council 's plan , he had to be sure that the diverted route would not be less convenient . |