Example sentences of "said to be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Midani , said to be a member of one of the richest families in the world , would install one of United 's favourite sons , Bobby Charlton , as chairman . |
| 2 | Still , I had happier memories of Enniskillen : of the Horseshoe Lounge in the Railway Hotel ( now an hotel without a railway ) and a group named ‘ Country Comrades ’ , who played Irish , Scottish and hillbilly tunes fast and slow , while the crowd whooped and danced merrily ; of hillside fields and haycocks ; of the Bronze Age burial chamber said to be a giant 's grave ; and of tales of the local footpack 's exploits among the Ulster foxes . |
| 3 | HOUSES on the Strand at Topsham , on the Exe estuary , have a weakness for Dutch gables , said to be a remnant of the Glorious Revolution when William of Orange 's artillery came ashore there ( William and Mary themselves landed at Torbay ) . |
| 4 | THE QUEEN 'S HEAD , said to be a 14th Century inn has a long gallery , now glassed in , facing east , but it is not an original structure . |
| 5 | Franca , said to be a good cook , was not a good cook , just an ingenious cook . |
| 6 | At the same time , the College minutes ( said to be a bona fide copy of the lost original ) show that the Earl of Orford was elected a vice-president of the College on 8 April 1791 . |
| 7 | An effigy of Bartle , said to be a medieval sheep thief , though undoubtedly a much older figure , is paraded round the village after dark and then set alight . |
| 8 | Said to be a very calming stone when held in the hand , it can also help to regularise the menstrual cycle if you suffer from erratic periods . |
| 9 | The source alleged that in the recording — said to be a phone conversation during 1989 — the man called Di ‘ darling ’ and gave her the nickname ‘ Squidgy . ’ |
| 10 | For vendors and users committed to standards , often said to be a weak spot in Sybase 's message , System 10 is supposed to be so standards friendly you 'll fair quiver with joy . |
| 11 | For vendors and users committed to standards , often said to be a weak spot in Sybase 's message , System 10 is supposed to be so standards-friendly you 'll fair quiver with joy . |
| 12 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 13 | fresh flowerheads or petals , for healing wounds , and to treat conjunctivitis ; leaves said to be a good remedy for the pain of a bee or wasp sting |
| 14 | This is , indeed , often said to be a presumption to which judges should have regard in interpreting statutes . |
| 15 | Said to be a right-on progressive , none of your phallicky Freudians here , no oral-aggressive-anal-retentive-come-and-see-me-five-times-a-week-for-years-at-vast-expense-or-how-do-I-know-you're-really-committed school of psychotherapy . |
| 16 | The explicit extension is the set of propositions which ( almost ) everyone said to be a party to the convention actually accepts as part of its extension . |
| 17 | The other man , said to be a workmate , is seriously ill . |
| 18 | Ten trucks carrying food and medicine to Cerska , said to be a haven for up to 40,000 Slavic Muslims , left Belgrade yesterday and got to Serb-held Zvornik on Bosnia 's border with Serbia . |
| 19 | Police officers stayed in the area , said to be a ‘ tightknit community ’ , because feelings were running so high . |
| 20 | She said the Iranian government had always disclaimed responsibility for Khordad 15 , said to be a religious charity . |
| 21 | Easter alternative AS AN alternative to chocolate eggs , try a simnel cake , said to be an Easter favourite since the time of Edward the Confessor . |
| 22 | She particularly disliked marjoram — an essence used for grief , said to be an anti-aphrodisiac . |
| 23 | The signs at first sight seem to be completely different from those of other scripts found in Minoan Crete , and they are often for this reason said to be an import : the disc itself is sometimes explained away as a foreign curiosity . |
| 24 | If an operator 0 turns a vector V into a multiple v of itself , unc then the vector Vis said to be an eigenvector of O with eigenvalue v. |
| 25 | Dr Hugh Dalton , MP for Peckham and later to become Attlee 's first Chancellor , had already been chosen to succeed Ben Spoor said to be an alcoholic in the Co Durham constituency . |
| 26 | Currie give a debut to the 18-year-old Forrester stand-off , John Morrison , said to be an outstanding prospect , for their home match against Kilmarnock , while Duncan Macrae has recovered from a broken leg and reappears at full-back in the Boroughmuir XV away to West Hartlepool . |