Example sentences of "are said [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some claim to extrude ectoplasm , the substance out of which spirits are said to be made . |
| 2 | Children of such a union are said to be born with webbed feet or scaly skin , although as with any fairy/mortal mating the child will be uncommonly gifted . |
| 3 | In this book authorities are said to be limited also by the kinds of reasons on which they may or may not rely in making decisions and issuing directives , and by the kind of reasons their decisions can pre-empt . |
| 4 | They stress the theory-laden character of our pictures of the world and the extent to which scientists are said to be influenced in their thinking by the social factor of the spirit of the age . |
| 5 | For all these states of affairs are said to be united within the complex whole . |
| 6 | Key Sun employees in the areas of programming and signal processing are said to be moving to the new company , which is claimed to have made breakthroughs in security and ease of use . |
| 7 | There are many memories which are too painful , or too wicked , for the patient to remember without the aid of psychoanalysis , and these are said to be repressed . |
| 8 | As one might expect , West Germany has inherited the ability to maintain vast dossiers on people within its borders and , bearing in mind that some 8,000 spies working for East Germany and Russia are said to be operating in West Germany , there is certainly plenty for them to do . |
| 9 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 10 | Forty well organised criminal groups are said to be smuggling works of art out of Russia . |
| 11 | THE BRITISH are said to be fascinated by the weather and talk of little else when the talk is small . |
| 12 | Workers are said to be rationed in the labour market and firms are said to be rationed in the commodity market . |
| 13 | Workers are said to be rationed in the labour market and firms are said to be rationed in the commodity market . |
| 14 | Since households can not sell their notional supply of labour services , i.e. , they are said to be rationed in the labour market . |
| 15 | In this case , the ‘ strategic compromises ’ of monopoly capital are said to be imposed by the balance of power between classes in the power bloc — a balance which might itself be explicable in structural terms . |
| 16 | The year-old arrangement for CDC to sell NEC mainframes into the US and Europe has n't worked out , but CDC says it is now working on NEC 's massively parallel systems which are due next year and are said to be based around Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA-RISC , although Ousley says the Japanese firm is ‘ keeping its chip options open . ’ |
| 17 | The established professions are said to be based upon an underlying logic which is essentially instrumental ; the individual is seen as an instance of a general category . |
| 18 | Most trivial arguments are said to be based on matters of principle . |
| 19 | Witnesses said armed soldiers kept up an overnight siege at Kinshasa 's People 's Palace conference centre because the notes used to pay them are said to be cursed and are almost impossible to spend . |
| 20 | Some are said to be getting cold feet . |
| 21 | Both this novel and the one which it resumes are ‘ hung ’ books , in the sense that Parliaments are said to be hung . |
| 22 | Promoters , The Mean Fiddler Group , are said to be seeking compensation for non-fulfilment of his contract as well as a separate settlement for bringing their organisation into disrepute . |
| 23 | The defence secretary has announced further cuts to Britain 's armed forces , including the cancellation of a nuclear missile system for the R A F. The decisions came as MPs warned that cuts the treasury are said to be seeking , would leave Britain unable to defend itself . |
| 24 | The subsidence costs are incurred by British Coal and so are said to be internalized . |
| 25 | A much larger number helped at home or in the homes of neighbours and kin : ‘ At one school , where only twelve are returned as regular wage-earners , ‘ nearly all ’ are said to be employed … |
| 26 | Each object is said to possess , or be part of the Akasha , which to some is a universal ‘ ether ’ in which the world 's events are said to be recorded . |
| 27 | Changes in social structure are said to be overdetermined by numerous contradictions . |
| 28 | Local authorities have no powers except those conferred upon them by statute , and when they take action which is not sanctioned by the law they are said to be acting ultra vires ( beyond the powers ) . |
| 29 | Thus some things that are said to be going to happen , do happen . |
| 30 | The branch manager jobs are said to be going as part of a reorganisation which BIFU believes will lead to more job losses . |