Example sentences of "be said to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said to be a fundamental contradiction in the Weberian model of bureaucracy . |
| 2 | The social cost of these processes , added to by government policies , has been said to be the end of ‘ consensus politics ’ and a turning away from the notion that the social hierarchy can be perceived to be legitimate . |
| 3 | More generally , however , this tort has been said to be the genus of which the other unlawful means torts ( intimidation and interference with contract and conspiracy where unlawful means are involved ) are species . |
| 4 | This is despite a major reduction in the proportion of calls performed by deputising services , the use of which had been said to be the main factor increasing the numbers of night visits . |
| 5 | The two witnesses are said to be a retired Swiss shopkeeper who had business dealings with Mr Ryan in the early 1970s , and a British businessman who had dealings with Mr Ryan in Libya . |
| 6 | Evenings in the Jones household are said to be a nightmare . |
| 7 | Its radiation emissions are said to be a severe health risk to local residents . |
| 8 | As in previous attacks on the protesters , the real agents provocateurs are said to be the Western media egging on the rabble . |
| 9 | Schooldays are said to be the happiest days in your life but for Asian children in Britain they are often the harshest . |
| 10 | Not surprising , then , that Soho 's fire-fighters are said to be the busiest in the world . |
| 11 | The colours used on the façade of the palace are said to be the same as those originally used . |
| 12 | ‘ Protective factors ’ are said to be the explanation . |
| 13 | These monsters are found only in New Jersey , USA , and are said to be the descendants of the illegitimate offspring of a woman named Mother Leeds . |
| 14 | It is a very simple denial of deafness and corrupts the most fundamental aspect of scientific investigation : the elements which are the outcome are said to be the cause . |
| 15 | Lifetime employment and seniority wages which are said to be the two defining features of the Japanese labour market , are closely related . |
| 16 | Such mobility may carry the stigma of personal failure or a defective personality that are said to be the result of ‘ soiling one 's curriculum vitae' ( Nakane 1973 p.111 ) . |
| 17 | The self-regulation of the profession and the high standards demanded of its members are said to be the justification for the monopolies enjoyed by those engaging in the activity and by the restrictive practices permitted . |
| 18 | All the appellants seek orders that , because of the Secretary of State 's failure to comply with what are said to be the requirements as I have set them out , the decisions made in relation to each of the appellants as to their respective tariffs should be quashed . |
| 19 | The differences are said to be the following : |
| 20 | I wish it could be said to be a gain to the Faculty of Theology . ’ |
| 21 | To that extent there may be said to be a mental element required for this variety of manslaughter , but it is a manifestly low mental element compared with the death which results . |
| 22 | Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator . |
| 23 | The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform . |
| 24 | There are many alternative implementations of trie memory , in fact the 26-way tree just described could be said to be a type of trie . |
| 25 | One of the best known of all British sociological studies , Young and Willmott 's Family and Kinship in East London ( 1957 ) , could be said to be a community study , though it has a specific focus and is based mainly , though not entirely , on data collected through a social survey . |
| 26 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 27 | By this definition , the question of what would count as a comprehensive health service could be said to be a polycentric one . |
| 28 | But how may this be said to be a Christology ? |
| 29 | When , however , its satisfactions depend upon the infliction of pain or damage upon an unwilling partner , the situation is again that of using a person as a mere object : the sadist ( or , sometimes , the masochist ) may genuinely be said to be a social and personal menace . |
| 30 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |