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

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1 The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics .
2 William may or may not have been a rogue and charlatan ; there are said to be many such in Panama , which as a crossroads for the modern world radiates a special magnetism for crews of ne'er-do-wells .
3 Moreover these gods are said to be more part of the world 's spiritual furniture than transcendent of it — perhaps more like the saints in Catholic tradition .
4 It is a centre of pilgrimage , since the bones in the cathedral are said to be those of St. James , and the cathedral is a must , particularly the entrance from the Plaza del Obradoiro .
5 The footsteps are said to be those of an unfortunate platelayer who was killed shortly after the introduction of the electric trains .
6 There are said to be some mystic rivers one drop of which can steal a man 's life away .
7 The ultimate ‘ aim ’ of beauty , if there can be said to be such a thing , is to point us towards the spiritual realm .
8 For much of the next generation there could scarcely be said to be such a thing as a French army , for a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's soldiers came from Scotland .
9 In fact the major pilgrimage route to Santiago is said to be that by which Priscillian 's body was brought back for burial from Trier .
10 Spike , himself , is said to be all X-ed out about the memorabilia that is being sold by other people .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The new compiler is said to be some 10% to 20% faster than the top-ranked GNU C Compiler .
14 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 .
15 The Bettiscombe skull , preserved in the house at that time , was said to be that of a negro slave , so devoted to John Frederick that it emitted the most ghastly screams if it were ever parted from him .
16 His interest in witchcraft was said to be more than scholarly .
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