Example sentences of "are said [prep] [be] [vb pp] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | THE BRITISH are said to be fascinated by the weather and talk of little else when the talk is small . |
| 8 | Workers are said to be rationed in the labour market and firms are said to be rationed in the commodity market . |
| 9 | Workers are said to be rationed in the labour market and firms are said to be rationed in the commodity market . |
| 10 | Since households can not sell their notional supply of labour services , i.e. , they are said to be rationed in the labour market . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Most trivial arguments are said to be based on matters of principle . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Both this novel and the one which it resumes are ‘ hung ’ books , in the sense that Parliaments are said to be hung . |
| 17 | The subsidence costs are incurred by British Coal and so are said to be internalized . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Changes in social structure are said to be overdetermined by numerous contradictions . |
| 21 | Kung fu artists aim their attacks at the body 's vital spots , which are said to be located along an imaginary line running down the middle of the body . |
| 22 | The overt acts of the alleged conspiracy are said to be set out in the statement of claim . |
| 23 | Those born on a Friday are said to be marked out for special piety , which does not mean that they will be pious necessarily ; only that their natures are imbued with that proclivity . |
| 24 | In addition , social disruption and discontent are said to be fostered by temporary visitors , and ghost communities may be created out-of-season . |
| 25 | church in the Strand , so named because various Danish Kings are said to be buried there . |
| 26 | Very short heats are said to be linked with low ovulation rates . |
| 27 | The nuclei of certain atoms resemble tops in that they have an intrinsic angular momentum — or spin , such atoms are said to be polarised when they are all spinning in the same direction . |
| 28 | The generic and common names of mint are said to be taken from the Greek myth of the nymph Minthe , who was being pursued by Hades , the god of the Underworld . |
| 29 | Today Iraq 's bomb-making plants are said to be dispersed and hardened against attack from the air . |
| 30 | An 1801 description criticised , ‘ Though the corporation are said to be enriched by the produce of the ferry over the Tamar , the privilege of dragging the oysters , the anchorage and clearance of foreign vessels etc , yet the town presents but a poor appearance ’ . |