Example sentences of "said to [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ ) .
2 However , eighteen beds said to be available at the Peasholme Centre in York are already full .
3 ‘ You said to be early , and we were , ’ said Alix .
4 • 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 all parts of considerable use in liver troubles , a good diuretic and tonic , also mild laxative ; juice said to be effective in treating warts
7 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 .
8 Fellow undergraduates and tutors at the University were last night said to be stunned by the news of his death .
9 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 .
10 Later , drive to the Buddhist Swayambhunath Stupa , said to be 2,000 years old .
11 On Nov. 1 Bulgarian police said that they had seized a quantity of plutonium-239 said to be Russian in origin .
12 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 .
13 Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration .
14 He was Alan Stephen Wild , 38 , said to be five feet nine inches , with fair hair .
15 Much has been written about the technological challenge of North Sea oil , said to be second only to the American space programme in scale .
16 Detectives have arrested two men , said to be fellow Russians .
17 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 .
18 In private banking , net provisions jumped from £1.6 million to £4.8 million , said to be due principally to unpaid mortgages .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 ( Local GP said to be good )
23 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 .
24 I said to be chary of the McLaggans — ‘ No no , there is no harm really .
25 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 ) .
26 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 .
27 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 ,
28 And is not the creation of a complementary marine park said to be imminent ?
29 Irina and Marcus , said to be busy with preparations for their move to the country , no longer visited .
30 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 .
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